Some interesting news south of the border. This piece by the Montana-based Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) tells it all. Apparently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has imposed new regulations on the coal industry that are basically...
Year: 2013
High Wages Attract Better Politicians
The Frontier Centre has released a backgrounder today entitled CEO Compensation, Politicians’ Salaries, and NHL Players. The author of the paper is Steve Lafleur, a policy analyst with the Frontier Centre. The backgrounder examines the relationship between...
CEO Compensation, Politicians’ Salaries, and NHL PLayers
Conservative activists often take issue with what they consider excessive pay and perks for politicians. Social democratic activists get riled up over the large salaries commanded by CEOs. Both often do so on an emotional rather than a logical basis. A myopic focus on...
Fixing California: The Green Gentry’s Class Warfare
Joel Kotkin, newgeography, October 28, 2013 Historically, progressives were seen as partisans for the people, eager to help the working and middle classes achieve upward mobility even at expense of the ultrarich. But in California, and much of the country,...
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
McDouble is ‘cheapest and most nutritious food in human history’
Describing the McDonald’s double cheeseburger as “the cheapest, most nutritious, and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history” might seem beyond fanciful, but according to the author of Freakonomics, it is not as absurd a suggestion as it appears.
Why the Climate Models of Global Warming Are Wrong
Climate science is in turmoil. Contrary to predictions by the world’s leading climate models and despite rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years. How can the climate models be wrong?
Suffocating Bureaucracy & Failed Institutions
The real reason for the collapse of embryonic civil society in Egypt appears to be poorly understood.
Within this excellent article in the UK The Telegraph , by the Editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson “It is capitalism, not democracy, that the Arab world needs most” ( h/t Australian Institute of Public Affairs … Hey… what did I miss? newsletter ) , the real reasons for this failure are explained.
We See Thee Rise: Canada’s Emerging Role In Policy Leadership
In their 2010 book The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America’s Shadow, Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens, and Niels Veldhuis, three leading Canadian policy and think tank experts, described the great opportunity lying ahead for our northern neighbor. Public policy reforms that increased market incentives, opened new areas to trade and production, and moved toward increased economic freedom and financial stability, reversed the trends that made Canada lag behind the U.S. Canada today ranks ahead of the United States in economic freedom and in transparency, as well as in many other economic indicators such as lower levels of debt, less unemployment, and higher GDP growth.
An Elected Senate: Recipe for Gridlock
We can’t get rid of the Senate, nor would we want to do so. In quiet committees, removed from public gaze and the passions of the day, the senators perform a useful role, subjecting legislation to careful scrutiny. With greater experience than his colleagues in the House of Commons, a Senator can take a longer view and see unintended and unexpected consequences. And the cost is trivial.
The Beer Store Monopoly Costs Ontarians $700 Million Annually: Study
University of Waterloo economist Anindya Sen recently published a study which tells us what everyone but the Ontario government already knows: the legally protected Beer Store monopoly is overcharging consumers. That is what monopolists do, after all.
Arson Highlights Need for Debate on Bill 40
The Manitoba government tabled a series of amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act in May that have yet to come up for a vote in the legislature. Among many other things, Bill 40 would make it easier for landlords to evict tenants who are acting unlawfully.
Property rights still in jeopardy at border
A Saskatchewan couple is still discovering that property rights are precarious when it comes to the Canada-United States border. A saga pitting a Saskatchewan couple against a federal agency may soon be coming to a sad conclusion. Edwin and Alison Morris were informed...
Ferries to Relieve Traffic Congestion?
The new football stadium in the south end of Winnipeg has tremendous gridlock, requiring many fans to leave several hours early to arrive on time. Traffic in southern Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe is some of the worst in the world. In each case, ferries are being floated as a potential alternative to driving. It’s not clear how much they can practically do to relieve congestion, but it is certainly greater than zero. Given the cost of congestion mitigation, it may become economical in both instances.