Watch Johan Hjertqvist and Rebecca Walberg present their Canada Health Consumer Index 2008 on Breakfast on the Frontier. (77 minutes)
Year: 2008
Which Provinces Deliver the Best Healthcare?
A new report from FCPP and HCP shows that Ontario is the clear winner at providing consumer friendly healthcare, followed by BC and NB. Manitoba, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland are in a race to the bottom. The best performing provinces are also the most cost-effective.
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)...
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.
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Canadian Health Policy Lacks Modern Plan
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Blowing Up The WTO
Carbon tariff regimes are recipes for global trade wars. Any attempt by Canada to impose a tariff to offset developing country regulatory practice would contravene global trade law. To figure out the appropriate tax level would require a mind-blowingly elaborate carbon-measurement scheme, created on a global scale.
Should Principals Be Union Members?
Several other provinces, most notably British Columbia and Ontario, recognized this inherent conflict and established separate associations for principals and teachers.
Ontario’s Nanny State
Ontario wants to use the law to stop parents from smoking in front of kids in their cars.
Stealing Corn From the Poor
More ethanol production wil lbe neither environmentally friendly nor welcome news to consumers who will see their food prices raised by ethanol-driven demand for grain.
Has His Reason
As an economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and former advisor to President Reagan, Henderson shatters the stereotype that individuals who comprise the anti-war movement all drive hybrids and listen to NPR.
But capitalism and non-interventionist foreign policy go hand-in-hand, he says. Just as the government shouldn’t intervene in the economic affairs of its own citizens, he says, it also shouldn’t intervene in the political affairs of foreign nations.
Victoria Unlocks Vast Tracts For Housing
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