“The hypothesis that dangerous human-caused climate change will create rapid change beyond the adaptive capacity of human society and natural systems is based on two fallacies.”
Year: 2010
Classrooms Should Be Teacher-Centered: Part 5 in an ongoing excerpt series on education from the Frontier Centre
Forget child-centered classrooms. How about teacher-centered classrooms for a change?
The Traditional Census is Dying, and a Good Thing Too: Leviathan’s spyglass
America’s constitution requires it to conduct a shoe-leather census, which is why this year’s effort is going to cost it over $11 billion. The Finns, by contrast, spent about €1m ($1.2m) on their last one. That’s about $36 per head in America and 20 cents in Finland. Denmark has been keeping track of its citizens without a traditional census for decades; Sweden, Norway, Finland and Slovenia, among others, have similar systems. Germany will adopt the approach for its next count, also due in 2011.
To Kick Their Illegal Tobacco Habit, First Nations Need Other Opportunities: Black-market ‘smoke shacks’ are the alternative to normal business development
Calls to “crack down” on illegal cigarette sales on Native reserves are a good moment to understand why First Nations are led into illegal markets and how to respond to that.
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Beijing’s Minions Don’t Belong on Canadian Stock Exchanges
The Chinese economy is growing and surpassing the U.S. economy in size. That stature, with its consequent soft and hard power, means opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) regime needs to be multilateral. No matter how much unipolarity the U.S. has enjoyed...
Manitoba Trade with the U.S.: The Need to Strengthen Relations with the Midwest
Trade is essential for Manitoba’s economy. International exports and imports represented 46.4 per cent of GDP for Manitoba in 2018. With a significant goods-related industry estimated at 26.9 per cent of GDP in 2019, Manitoba needs to have strong trading partners to...
Winds Of Change
“In a signing ceremony Thursday for a $7-billion deal with Samsung to build wind and solar facilities, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said: ‘This means Ontario is officially the place to be for green energy manufacturing in North America.'”
More Money Doesn’t Always Equal Better Health Care: Improving healthcare requires real reform, not just throwing money at the problem
In Canada, the highest-spending provinces on healthcare are among the lowest-performing jurisdictions in the country. FC053
Addressing Root Causes The Key To Ending Homelessness
“As housing officials work toward the city’s ambitious plan to obliterate homelessness in Lethbridge in five years, philosophies must change and traditional community planning models be tossed aside.”
Why ‘Have’ Provinces Hate Equalization
Feedback to Mark Milke’s How Equalization Punishes Canadians in High-Cost Provinces Policy Note.
Universal Childcare is No Panacea: Promised productivity gains are unlikely to materialize
The notion that universal daycare is a prudent long-term investment is a canard.
What If Quebecers Got Their Wish, And The Oilsands Closed?: Economic impact would be devastating, even affecting Quebec’s social programs
“Closing down Alberta’s oil industry would immediately stop the production of 1.8 million barrels of oil a day. Supply and demand being what it is, oil prices would go up and therefore the cost at the pump would go up, too, increasing the cost of everything else.”
Media Release – Smart Local Government: The Frontier Centre points to outcomes, not rules, as necessary for Canada’s cities
“Good local government law promotes good local government,” writes Frontier senior fellow Larry Mitchell in a new look at reforming Canada’s antiquated municipal government legislation.
Creating Proper Incentives for Canada’s Cities Through Smart Provincial Legislation: A best-practice model of local government legislation for Canada
Frontier senior fellow Larry Mitchell on reforming Canada’s antiquated municipal government legislation: Canadian municipal law is characterized by its prescriptive rules-based codes of compliance. These contrast starkly with other jurisdiction’s local government law.
Modern local government laws of other countries seek to facilitate best-management practice by setting outcomes rather than rules;
they construct a performance and service-delivery framework designed to effectively and efficiently meet the needs of local taxpayers and residents.
Good local government law promotes good local government.
Wanted: A New Vision for First Nations: A BC First Nation wants an end to a dependent relationship on Ottawa
The Gixtsan of B.C. propose a vision that rejects special status and parallel society for First Nations and embraces closer ties with mainstream society.