Foreign-trained architects, nurses and engineers are among new immigrants who will get first crack at having their credentials recognized within one year under a new federal-provincial accord being announced Monday. Canwest News Service has learned the agreement will...
Year: 2009
Living Better than the Kids
The World Economic Forum’s International Competitiveness Report ranks Australia’s banks as 3rd most sound out of 133 nations. However, Australia has a serious housing affordability problem.
Media Release – 2009 Local Government Performance Index: Frontier’s third annual report on municipal finances and reporting standards
An easily accessible index of financial statistics and assessments of reporting standards for 88 Canadian municipalities.
3rd/4th Annual Local Government Performance Index
An easily accessible index of financial statistics and assessments of reporting standards for 88 Canadian municipalities.
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Canadians on the Move, to Smaller Communities
The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
Leadership Needed in Canadian Healthcare; Apply Within
When the Premiers were first called to a sit-down lunch to talk about healthcare with Prime Minister Trudeau, there was plenty of talk about the potential for systemic change, innovation and accountability. It seemed that Canadians and their leaders were finally on...
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.
How They Are Turning Off The Lights In America
We need to look no further than the many environmental groups like the Sierra Club and to America’s elected officials who turned their backs on American citizens and in essence themselves, for they too are citizens of this country. These officials bought into the green agenda promoted by the heavily funded environmental groups. Caving to pressure, they passed laws and the environmental groups filed lawsuits that began turning off the lights in America. The dominos started to fall.
Suzuki Report Provides Honest Environmental Advocacy: Study confirms that emission cuts will cost billions
The Suzuki/Pembina greenhouse gas report recognizes that significant greenhouse gas reductions cannot be achieved without substantial costs in terms of lost economic growth.
Whither The Weather?: Considering the causes of climate change
To date, the media has discouraged public debate on climate change and instead focused on group behaviours. Senior Fellow Dr. Tim Ball provides a discussion guide for teachers suited for collegiate level students that includes a balanced view of the issue. Reprintable.
Michael Moore is Right–On Film Tax Subsidies: Time to dump generous and inefficient
Tax relief is a useful end but not when done through sector-specific credits that distort incentives to favour one industry over another, such as occur with the film industry.
Governments to Students: Don’t Worry About the Real World: Deadlines should be enforced in school
A large number of school divisions prevent teachers from deducting marks from late assignments. But this policy stems from a misguided assessment philosophy that fails to take human nature into account.
A Canadian Autobahn: Creating a World-Class Highway System for the Nation
The United States, Europe and Japan all have motorway systems that reach virtually all of their major urban areas; Canada is the exception.
The Province to Students: Don’t Worry About the Real World: Deadlines should be enforced in school
A large number of school divisions prevent teachers from deducting marks from late assignments. But this policy stems from a misguided assessment philosophy that fails to take human nature into account.
Media Release – Creating a Canadian Autobahn: The Frontier Centre releases a new study on a new study from Prof. Wendell Cox on the creation of a new, high-speed highway system across Canada
A new Canadian “autobahn” system proposed that includes significant upgrades to the Trans-Canada highway as well as the Yellowhead route, Edmonton and Calgary to the Canada-U.S. border, Ottawa to Sudbury and across the island of Newfoundland.