Power prices are going to get more expensive in Canada because of political interference.
Year: 2012
Why Canadian Cities Should Look to Phoenix
Residents of Canadian cities constantly hear rumours of shady dealings between municipal politicians and developers. The only way to prevent against this is to remove politicians from day to day operations – just like the City of Phoenix, Arizona, has done.
Nancy Greene: former Olympian turned Senator has no regrets: Four years in the Senate good experience for Greene Raine
Canada’s female athlete of the 20th century once joked that she’d never accept the many overtures to enter federal politics because she’d lose her soul leaving B.C. for a city without nearby mountains.
Pierre Desrochers, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.: ‘The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet’
The Frontier Centre interviewed Pierre Desrochers in Calgary on October 25,2012. His unique strength as one of the most well-known critics of the locavore movement is his knowledge of a broader set of issues than other critics who have attacked only one facet of this movement.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy!
COVID-19 Emergency Powers Nearly Limitless
The war against the invisible enemy of COVID-19 has unfortunately made normal rights and freedoms invisible as well. Another example manifested on September 13 when Saskatchewan’s premier renewed emergency orders for his province. The list of powers he claimed were so...
So Much for Equalization Payments: Ontario no longer ‘have’ province
Admaston-Bromley Mayor Raye-Anne Briscoe says Ontario really has become a have-not province, as far as federal equalization payments are concerned, but there’s precious little media coverage about it.
Time to end Winnipeg’s cab crackdown
Police have been so vigilant in cracking down on taxis temporarily occupying no-parking and loading zones at night in front of bars that the taxi industry nearly boycotted downtown service last weekend. This type of frivolous enforcement flies in the face of common sense. Taxi drivers provide a valuable public service. They help people get where they need, and they keep drunk drivers off the road. There is no possible argument that cracking down on taxis for minor parking infractions makes people safer.
My Tower of Babble book review (pulled by Amazon.ca)
Richard Stursberg’s new book – The Tower of Babble – details the severe challenges involved in modernizing a large, moribund government organization in an enlightening discussion of internal politics and intrigue.
Peter Lougheed (1928 – 2012), RIP.
Peter Lougheed, Alberta’s 10th premier, has passed away.
Bleeding Money
Manitoba customers may have the lowest electrical rates in Canada, and Manitoba Hydro and its subsidiaries may be spreading their expertise worldwide — including being picked to review the Muskrat Falls project not once, but twice.
The Celtic Tiger
This morning the Frontier Centre held a breakfast in Regina with Linda West as a guest speaker.
Trade deal with China may help aboriginal fishers here
Canada is considering entering into a free trade agreement with China. Of course, there are issues surrounding that, including corruption, foreign takeovers and the rule of law generally. There is always the problem of China's human rights record, which is a separate...
What If They Ran The NFL Like The Chicago Teachers Union?
In the last week, two of America’s favorite pastimes have relaunched for fall. One is football, the other is politically-focused adults grabbing for more government money in the name of “the children.”
The Trials of a Democratic Reformer: In California’s capital, union officials ‘walk around like they’re God.’ This pro-labor former legislator wants to bring them back to earth.
Former Los Angeles Lakers Coach Phil Jackson once referred to Sacramento as a “cowtown,” but Gloria Romero, a pro-labor Democrat who served as California’s Senate majority leader from 2001 to 2008, takes exception to the belittling description. The capitol building in Sacramento, she says, has “the eighth most powerful economy in the world under that dome,” and it operates not unlike other wealthy kleptocracies. “There’s no other way to say it politely. It’s owned.”