“Frosh-week frivolities have ended and some 40,000 new university students across the country have experienced their first weeks of classes. Unfortunately for many, those classes have brought frustration and disillusionment.”
Year: 2010
Unfreezing Arctic Assets: A bloc of countries above the 45th parallel is poised to dominate the next century. Welcome to the New North.
“Much of the planet’s northern quarter of latitude, including the Arctic, is poised to undergo tremendous transformation over the next century. As a booming population increases the demand for the Earth’s natural resources, and as lands closer to the equator face the prospect of rising water demand, droughts and other likely changes, the prominence of northern countries will rise along with their projected milder winters.”
B.C. Set To Prescribe Health Contracts Pegged On Performance
“B.C. is launching its offensive against swelling health-care budgets, promising faster treatment for patients with a new pay-for-performance plan in its hospitals.”
Climate Terrorism: Was the “No Pressure” video a glimpse into how climate change activists really think?
A recent climate activism video from the group 10:10 which is widely trusted in the climate activism community has revealed a rare glimpse of a movement that has scant regard for the rights and dignity of others.
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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...
Media Release – Saskatchewan’s Commercial Crown Corporation Dividend Policy: Change isn’t always Progress
A former Vice-President of Finance for Crown Investments Corporation critiques the Saskatchewan government’s decision to take 100% of the 2010 profits of commercial Crowns other than SaskPower.
What Islamists, Greens and Oil Exploration Have in Common: Natural Limits: Life is about accepting imperfection
Humanity’s ability to create perfect world has limits.
How Green Regulations Helped Create the SUV: Well-intentioned regulations can create adverse unintended consequences
Many environmentalists despite SUVs- it is ironic that green regulations actually played an important role in the development of these gas-guzzlers, by effectively banning the family station wagon.
Climate Change Agenda Exploits Incorrect Assumptions
“Constant change to new paradigms is the way scientific knowledge and understanding advance. Questioning, or even initially resisting, the new paradigm is natural and even somewhat necessary.”
Media Release – Environmental Policy and Unintended Consequences: When green regulation works—and when it harms the very environment it aims to protect
Well-meaning efforts by governments to protect the environment can backfire, resulting in severe harm to human beings and, in some instances, to the natural environment regulators sought to protect.
Environmental Policy And The Law Of Unintended Consequences: Eight case studies from around the world
Well-meaning efforts by governments to protect the environment can backfire, resulting in severe harm to human beings and, in some instances, to the natural environment regulators sought to protect.
Anti-Social Union Practices Can’t Hide Behind Greater Good: Tolerance of unsavoury organizing practices shouldn’t rest on public good arguments
Unsavoury union organizing seems to get more of a pass than it deserves in Saskatchewan, analysing the economics of union labour suggests it shouldn’t.
IPCC Side Ducks Out of Chicago Conference on Climate Change: Gore-inspired strategy of hiding and name-calling continues to backfire
A recent conference on climate change was supposed to highlight competing views on climate change science. Unfortunately, defenders of the IPCC generally refused to participate.
First Nation Election Report Good Start: Independent election appeal process needed
A new Senate report that takes a look at band council elections deserves serious attention as it has some good ideas for reform.