People say that “good things come to those who wait.” Maybe they do. But this saying is cold comfort to the families of more than 8000 children who are waiting to get into the most popular charter school in Calgary. Foundations for the Future Charter Academy...
Year: 2013
First Nation set to build private hospital
Innovation in health care is coming from an unlikely place. A First Nation in British Columbia is using its unique constitutional position to create what is taboo in the rest of Canada. The self-governing Westbank First Nation is set to build a 100-bed hospital to...
The Cost Disease in Alberta Public Schools
Students and educators in Calgary high schools are concerned about increasing class sizes according to CBC News. Calgary public schools are putting more than 40 students in a classroom and large classes are becoming increasingly common. This problem is a...
Suburban Nation: The Queens University Research
A team of researchers at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario has announced groundbreaking research that classifies the populations in the 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) by urban core, transit oriented suburban, automobile oriented suburban and exurban...
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Trust is the Foundation of Authority
The heartbreaking death of Nathanael Spitzer, the cancer-stricken boy from Ponoka, exposed a most callous streak in Alberta’s medical bureaucracy. There is no forgiving how Alberta Health Services appallingly used a child’s death to promote yet more COVID-19 fear. ...
Apple’s “Security” Pitch Conveniently Protects the iOS-Android Duopoly
In October, Apple Inc. warned that draft rules from the European Union that would require the technology company to open up its mobile operating system to third-party apps would pose a security risk to its users. Expanding on comments already made by CEO Tim Cook, a...
Assets and Liabilities
With the imminent PST hike and the forced amalgamation of small municipalities dominating discussions about provincial politics, Manitoba Hydro has been pushed out of the limelight. That changed last week.
Promised Land – Manitoba Hydro and Saskatchewan?
Out of the most recent meeting of the western premiers comes an indication that Saskatchewan's Premier is interested in and may want Saskatchewan to purchase more electricity from Manitoba Hydro. Premier Selinger has seized the moment to relate the potential purchase...
Manny Jules, Chairman of the First Nations Tax Commission
Frontier’s Conversation with Manny Jules, head of the First Nations Tax Commission and former Chief of B.C.’s Kamloops Indian Band on good governance and property rights on First Nations.
Natives Need Rights to Property: Matrimonial law will ring hollow until homes are owned
the vast majority of these communities aren’t rich enough to sustain the resource load that the new law will trigger — especially when it comes to housing. Overcrowding already is common on many reserves, with three or four generations living under the same tiny roof. And even if the money for new homes could somehow be found, the reserves’ Soviet-style collective property ownership structure does not allow for the implementation of normal Canadian family-law principles.
The Mad Drive to Subvert Democracy in Toronto
Let me stipulate that I think Toronto’s Rob Ford is a terrible mayor. In fact, while I might not go so far as Richard Florida, who labeled Ford “the worst mayor in the modern history of cities, an avatar for all that is small-bore and destructive of the urban fabric, and the most anti-urban mayor ever to preside over a big city,” I’m willing to say he’s probably in the running for the title.
Moving ever Moving Forward (towards the cliff)
This past week the Public Utilities Board (PUB) accepted a few applications (and denied a Publius few others) for intervener status at its upcoming fall 2013 Needs for and Alternatives To (NFAT) review of the government's plans for the construction of two new...
Liberals have chance to support smart Aboriginal policies
The Liberal Party of Canada is developing Aboriginal policies in preparation for the next election. This is an opportunity for that party to adopt forward-looking, smart Aboriginal policies.
An Echo?
In Manitoba, the provincially owned electrical utility is planning a massive expansion of its hydroelectric operations, even though its profits from the sale of electric power have fallen dramatically, to the point that Manitoba ratepayers are actually subsidizing the sale of cheap power into the U.S. grid.
Some Perspective on Mass Produced Food and Global Poverty
White bread has developed a bad name in most developed countries. It is bland, and unhealthy relative to whole wheat bread. Many Canadians with sufficient disposable income now spend an extra few dollars to buy all kinds of artisanal breads, rather than pre-made bread...