It’s time to revisit the consensus on climate change. As the financial crisis shows, the majority of people can be wrong in their predictions.
Year: 2008
Central Planning at Home and Abroad
The main difference is that a government that forswears central planning and leaves individuals free to make their own decisions within a system of property rights will typically end up being the government of a prosperous country.
CHQR Radio – Canada’s Energy Industry – With Mark Milke
Listen to Andy Gregory from CHQR Radio in Calgary speak to Mark Milke about the relationship of politicians and Canada's energy industry. (19 minutes)
Bloc’s the Big Winner in Election Financing
In a bit of political perversity, it turns out Canadians are bending over backwards to provide financial sustenance to the Bloc Quebecois.
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Supply Chain Strains Could Cause Shortages and Hoarding
Supply chain problems, both international and domestic, could create shortages and hoarding, and make recent inflationary pressures even worse. Although problems with our ports and railways may beg policy solutions, the short-term response of everyday Canadians should...
New Book: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
CALGARY, AB, December 17, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis written by Susan Martinuk. Susan is an accomplished, nationally recognized researcher and writer who has...
Breakfast on the Frontier – Environmental Ethics – With Peter Miller
Listen to Peter Miller speak on Environmental Ethics at Breakfast on the Frontier here. (43 minutes)
The Swedish Model – Education
BIG-STATE, social-democratic Sweden seems an odd place to look for a free-market revolution. Yet that is what is under way in the country’s schools. The reforms were controversial, especially within the Social Democratic Party, then in one of its rare spells in opposition. They would have been even more controversial had it been realised just how popular they would prove. In just 14 years the share of Swedish children educated privately has risen from a fraction of a percent to more than 10%.
Global Warming as Mass Neurosis
Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism.
Too Chicken to End Supply-Managed Agriculture
Canada’s politicians continue to be scared of a small rump of highly organized farmers whose government sanctioned cartel directly harms the interests of most farmers, all consumers and manufacturers.
Quebec to Lift Ban on Yellow Margarine
It fought in the supermarket aisles, it fought in the Supreme Court, but the Quebec government has finally surrendered in its battle to keep butter-coloured margarine off the province’s dinner tables. An aide to Liberal Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard confirmed...
Alberta to Bury Carbon, and its History
Alberta’s plan to bury carbon emissions based on shaky green ideology is flawed on at least four levels.
Don’t Recycle Bad Ideas
How Regina’s waste management consultation could result in an expensive recycling program that satisfies public opinion but actually wastes more resources than it saves.
Province Bows to PM’s Bullying
Simply put, Wall and his government have allowed themselves to be bullied by Harper. The big brother has taken the little brother’s allowance, threatening him bodily harm if he dares tell mom.
Killing the Golden Goose
We tend to judge this year’s food crisis, marked by seemingly indomitable prices, from the point of view of those who are suffering. It might be useful to judge the crisis also from the point of view of those who are causing it. That’s where the real lessons will be...