Cities are listed in alphabetical order: Newfoundland: St. John's Nova Scotia: Halifax New Brunswick: Frederickton Moncton Saint John
Year: 2008
The 2008 Local Government Performance Index – Prairies Regional Report
Cities are listed in alphabetical order: Alberta: Calgary Edmonton Grande Prairie Lethbridge Medicine Hat Red Deer St. Albert Strathcona County Wood Buffalo Saskatchewan: Regina Saskatoon Manitoba: WinnipegView entire Prairie edition in PDF Format (55...
The 2008 Local Government Performance Index – BC Regional Report
Cities are listed in alphabetical order: Abbotsford Burnaby Chilliwack Coquitlam Delta Kamloops Kelowna Langley Maple Ridge Nanaimo New Westminster North Vancouver Port Coquitlam Prince George Richmond Saanich Surrey Vancouver...
The High Cost of Not Investing in Health Care
The decision to use computerized order entries will be made at the hospital or regional authority level, but provincial governments can provide incentives, for instance by pairing a subsidy for making the transition to computerized ordering with a reduction in healthcare transfers for regions that fail to take action.
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No Evidence of Climate Crisis
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
It Is Time to Move On
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
Canada Health Consumer Index 2008
The Frontier Centre and its Brussels-based partners at the Health Consumer Powerhouse release the 2008 Canada Healthcare Consumer Index, the first-ever national consumer-focused bench-marking of Canada’s provinces.
Something Always Comes Along
The same will be true with oil. As prices rise, there will be more incentives to create a substitute. The beauty of all of it is that we never know where the innovation will come from — or lead us. We will not need to “plan” this innovation. Someone who wants to make a profit will research — or employ others to research — new technologies.
The Trillion Dollar Band-Aid
Likewise, it is negligent to focus on inefficiently cutting CO2 now because of costs in the distant future that in reality will not be avoided. It stops us from focusing on long-term strategies like investment in energy research and development that would actually solve climate change, and at a much lower cost.
Media Release – Canadian Health Consumer Index Rates Each Province’s Healthcare System
Ontario came in first in the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s first annual Canada Health Consumer Index which was released today. The Index - published by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy together with its European partner the Health Consumer Powerhouse (HCP)...
Ignorance About Climate
The philosopher Goethe said “There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.” And ignorance is what is being demonstrated by all the political leaders as each rolls out his or her plan to counter a supposed “climate crisis” due to “global warming”. None of them knows what he or she is talking about.
How Would You Spend $1 billion?
The Frontier Centre releases an “alternate choices” list for the cost of burying Saskatchewan’s carbon emissions
2008 Winning Hayek Essay Contest Entry
Frontier Senior Policy Analyst David Seymour, winner of the Hayek Essay Contest.
Reserves Show Signs of Slow Progress
The Frontier Centre’s third year of surveying governance on First Nations reveals improvement and innovation. One dramatic example is the Manitoba band which is challenging its culture of dependence by informing its people that there will be no more “free homes.”
An Open Letter to my Friends on the Left
To call the housing and credit crisis a failure of the free market or the product of unregulated greed is to overlook the myriad government regulations, policies, and political pronouncements that have both reduced the “freedom” of this market and channeled self-interest in ways that have produced disastrous consequences, both intended and unintended.