The largest cluster (51%) favours postponement of signing–either until we can be more confident that the global economy is coming out of recession (25%) or that there is strong agreement that the scientific research attributing climate change to humans is fully objective (26%).
Year: 2009
The Rise Of The Carbon Fat Cats
The carbon market in 2007 was worth $64billion: how could this be? A market is supposed to be the exchange of products that are the result of somebody’s work, for the satisfaction of somebody else’s needs….
Students Should Learn More—Not Less: Reducing the amount of content in Ontario’s curriculum is a big mistake
Reducing the amount of content provided to K-8 students in Ontario would result in students being even less prepared for life beyond school than they are now.
Municipal Governments Best in West: B.C. governments spend less and report better.
A look at why British Columbian Municipalities performed well in the 2009 Local Government Performance Index.
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The Man who Saved the Plains Indians
At the time of Confederation, Canada’s Plains Indians were in a desperate situation. The same European-introduced guns and horses that resulted in a briefly glorious golden age for them had also resulted in constant inter-tribal warfare and the rapid disappearance of...
Renewed Talk of Abolishing the Indian Act
Political attacks on the Indian Act are back in the news, and that is a good thing. However, Canadian politicians, including First Nation politicians, need a credible plan about what to do before we pull out the champagne. Attacking the Indian Act is not a big deal...
Seeing Through a Glass Darkly–At City Hall: A measurement of local government transparency in Saskatchewan’s two major cities
Saskatchewan residents could have real issues to vote on if their cities reported their performance more transparently.
Brian Lee Crowley, Founding President of AIMS, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
Frontier Conversation with the author of Fearful Symmetry – the Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values and what the future holds for Canada’s labour market.
President Vows To Kill State Corporations
In what amounts to a complete repudiation of the economic policies of Vladamir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President, pledged yesterday to disband Russia’s inefficient state corporations and called for a probe into their use of state money.
Frontier posts College of Physicians and Surgeons investigation of wrongly alleged “cancer epidemic” in oilsands.
In 2006, Dr. John O’Connor, a Nova Scotia physician then working in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, alleged that an epidemic of cancer was occurring in northern Alberta—and because of the oilsands operations there. In light of this, Frontier has decided to post the November 4, 2009 College of Physicians and Surgeons investigation of Dr. O’Connor.
Getting Past the Education Establishment’s Reading Wars: Give schools more content in the reading curriculum
The lack of specific content in the language arts curriculum is one of the main reasons why so many students have difficulty with reading comprehension.
Don’t Axe Provincial Achievement Tests: Eliminating Alberta’s achievement tests to save money is a big mistake
Using the provincial deficit as an excuse to eliminate provincial achievement tests in Alberta would do serious damage to educational accountability.
Twenty Years of Stimulus for East Germany
Economically, reunification has been devastating for the east. It need not have been. Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, West German politicians look on with satisfaction at the results of 20 years of reconstructing East Germany. East German town centers...
Current Global Temperatures Impossible According to IPCC ‘Science’
Senior Fellow Dr. Tim Ball reports that the data shows that the Earth is cooling with record low temperatures everywhere – a contradiction with the IPCC hypothesis. Modern Environmentalist.
Gross Domestic Happiness? : Why the French want to redefine economic growth
The oldest and most pathetic trick in the book when you lose a contest is to try to move the goal posts. GDP statistics of the past quarter century have shamed France but flattered the U.S., Britain and East Asia. Mr. Sarkozy’s gambit to paper over this real difference will be lucky to find any takers. Worth a look from the Wall Street Journal.