If you’re drinking a cold one as you drive along speed-bump-lined streets from the divorce court to your job as a bagpiper in a music hall lit with incandescent bulbs ... Whew, there should be a special carbon tax just on you. In the past six weeks, several studies —...
Year: 2007
Sir Roger Douglas
An interview with policy visionary and Frontier Policy Advisory Board member Sir Roger Douglas from New Zealand.
Building a Local Government Performance Index – Halifax PowerPoint
PowerPoint slides from the Meeting for Policy Experts presentation with Larry Mitchell, Local Government Performance Analyst from New Zealand on November 28, 2007 in Halifax at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies.
Think Tank Says City Not yet World-Class
Calgary remains a leader in Canada thanks to its red-hot economy, but a policy think tank says the city still needs to improve on how it accounts for funding crumbling infrastructure. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy released data from a review of 30 of Canada's...
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Traditional Teaching is not Obsolete
Artificial intelligence has come a long way. Unlike the rudimentary software of the past, modern-day programs such as ChatGPT are truly impressive. Whether you need a 1,000-word essay summarizing the history of Manitoba, a 500-word article extolling the virtues of...
Ottawa’s Policies Defeat Its Critical Minerals Push
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a recent rush visit to the Saskatchewan Research Council’s experimental rare earth refining facility in Saskatoon. He touted his government’s efforts to promote rare earth discovery, development, and extraction, along with the...
Equalization Pays for Manitoba’s Cheap Hydro
Huge equalization transfers allows Manitoba to travel a path of un-green energy policy. FC035
Breaking the iron-triangle
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is a private think-tank based out of Winnipeg, whose job it is to push the envelope.
Waves of Unthinking Money
Text of David MacKinnon’s speech to the Frontier Centre on how unsustainable regional subsidies are starting to break an Ontario economy beset by severe competitive pressures.
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David MacKinnon, Retired Ontario Public Servant and Critic of Regional Subsidies
As Ontario snoozes it loses. An Ontario based critic of regional subsidies makes the case for change.
The Global Warming Myth
Am I worried about carbon induced global warming? The answer is no and yes. No because there has been no sign of global warming in New Zealand since 1955, this year snow has fallen in Portugal for the first time in 52 years and 3 US states are united by the fact that...
Your Land Is Not Your Land
A Manitoba farmer recently lost a precedent setting court case against his local municipal government over the expropriation of his property for economic purposes.
Ontario is an Aging Economic Athlete
Canada’s largest economy is under pressure from the rising dollar and high energy costs.
Poverty Down, Taxes Down, Outrage Up
Never having seen the headquarters of the stridently leftwing and perpetually upset Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, it’s diverting to wonder what it might be like. My own view is that it looks something like the inside of a Second World War Japanese submarine...
Breakfast on the Frontier – Expansion on Northern Hydro Lines – With Hugh McFadyen
Listen to Hugh McFadyen speak at Breakfast on the Frontier here. (60 minutes)