According to today’s Leader-Post, the Saskatchewan Party is considering joining the Alberta and Manitoba in setting the legal minimum drinking age at 18.
Year: 2012
Biodiversity: The Next Environmental Deception
Tim Ball argues that alarmists exaggerate the severity of global species extinction.
U.S.-based civil forfeiture abuses could happen here too
A Massachusetts couple who have been in the motel business since the 1950s have encountered problems with the feds. In this piece, it is documented that drug use was discovered in some of the hotel rooms over the years. The problem is the motel property is worth about...
Traditional Broadcasting and Video Distribution Still Prospers
In spite of all the hype around Internet video, the traditional broadcasting system continues to very well. The CRTC’s "Communications Monitoring Report 2012" was released in September. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/PolicyMonitoring/2012/cmr.htm It...
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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...
Toronto’s private garbage collection meeting targets
Toronto City Council voted last year to contract out a large percentage of the city’s garbage collection. Private collection began this August. In preparation, CUPE Local 416 created a complaints hotline for disgruntled customers in an attempt to undermine the private service.
A Step Forward For Online Higher Ed?
Two who are bullish on the idea that web-based learning can make education “better, cheaper and easier to access” are Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, the proprietors of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. This week, they announced the creation of “Marginal Revolution University, ” which will soon provide free instructional content in the field of economics.
Harvard professor’s race card, a step backward.
Elizabeth Warren’s public claim that she is 1/32 Cherokee is highly offensive to liberal democratic values. Race, language, culture are not moral attributes for which people should receive honours of any kind. They are accidental features of life for which we are not responsible; they are not active personal achievements.
Are Canadian speed limits too low?
Determining the optimal speed limit is difficult. But it needs to be a limit that most people can actually follow. Our current set of speed limits does not conform to social norms, and, hence, results in minimal and arbitrary enforcement.
How friendly will Pauline Marois be toward Alberta?
A new Parti Quebecois government in Quebec has got people asking questions as to what comes next. Naturally, perhaps, the prevailing questions have been about sovereignty.
But the sovereignty issue will not likely dominate the reign of Quebec’s first female premier. First, because Pauline Marois has no majority to make it happen and no ability to push it by coalescing with Quebec Solidaire (the other separatist party, which won 2 seats). Second, the Coalition Avenir Quebec, CAQ (the new arrival that won 19 seats and nipped with their vote share at the statistical heels of the two large parties), ran explicitly on deferring constitutional questions in Quebec for a decade. Third, PM Stephen Harper is not likely going to allow Marois to draw him into constitutional squabbles and derail his government agenda. That means the PQ will find few partners to kick sand at in the constitutional sandbox.
As an Albertan, the question as to what the Quebec-Alberta relation will look like is more pressing in my mind.
Polar Bear Propaganda
It’s a Trojan horse for the central planners to come back and run our lives
Polar Bear Propaganda: A Useful Tool for the Promotion of Environmental Hysteria and Politicized Science
Tim Ball argues that global warming does not threaten the world’s polar bear population with extinction.
Honduras Goes Private
Forget charter schools; 2013 will be the year of charter cities.
Indigenous property ownership popular on both sides of border
Although the proposal does not seem to go as far as the proposed First Nations Property Ownership Act (FNPOA) in Canada, the Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership Act (HEARTH), which was passed without one dissenting voice in the U.S. House of...