Will Tishinski speech and Q&A at a Frontier Centre for Public Policy Breakfast entitled: Manitoba Hydro's Financial Quagmire. View the Power Point Presentation here: http://archive.fcpp.org/posts/manitoba-hydros-financial-quagmire
Year: 2014
Transit and Roads Aren’t Always at Odds
Public transit is often assumed to come at the expense of good roads, and vice versa. There are certainly cases where roadway spending and public transit are at odds. For instance, when light rail or streetcar projects remove lanes of traffic, or when road design...
Alberta Teachers’ Union Misses the Point About SLAs
The Alberta Teachers’ Association has correctly identified a problem but in doing so it has missed the bigger picture. The ATA is worried about administering the province’s new Student Learning Assessments (SLA) for Grade 3 students. They say that teachers do not have...
Unpaid Internships: The Pressure Should be on Universities
Public debate continues over unpaid internships for students. Unpaid internships can provide new work experiences and help students meet university or college requirements. However, reasonable people often consider them to be exploitation of young people....
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Cities Have to Expand for House Prices to Fall
The cost of actually building a house does not vary that much across Canada The Ford government’s plan to expand the land supply available for housing has evoked the usual dog whistles about “urban sprawl” by interests apparently unaware of the strong...
How We Teach Reading Really Does Matter
Reading is the most important skill taught in school. If students don’t learn how to read, not much else that happens there is going to matter. That’s because being able to read is important in virtually every job. Without the ability to read, life itself will be a...
Temporary Foreign Workers Should Become Permanent Citizens
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is under the spotlight in Canada. Supporters argue that foreign workers are definitely needed in certain industries or in regions where not enough Canadians can be found to fill available jobs. Opponents of the program say it takes...
Providing Mobility in Communities That Can’t Fill a Bus
Many small communities struggle to provide adequate transportation to people with limited mobility and those who cannot afford to drive. Unlike major cities, public transit use in small communities outside the heart of metropolitan areas is rarely a lifestyle choice....
Best Places To Be Self Employed
Manitoba may be the best place to live in Canada, if you enjoy being self-employed. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has recently launched its first Entrepreneurial Index. It examines and ranks the best places in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to be...
Fracking Debate Skewed by Misinformation
The debate surrounding hydraulic fracturing or fracking has become obscured by misinformation. Fracking is a technique that injects water and chemicals at high pressure into underground shale formations, shattering rock to release trapped natural gas. Much fear...
What’s Wrong With Our Schools And How We Can Fix Them (Podcast)
Originally aired on Stuff for Parents. (stuffforparents.com/podcasts/whats-…ix-them-part-1/) Michael Zwaagstra is a public school teacher, speaker, research associate with Frontier Centre for Public Policy and co-author of the book What’s Wrong With Our Schools and...
Ken Phillips discusses the First Annual Entrepreneurial Index
New Brunswick has ranked high in the first ever Entrepreneurial Index released by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and Ken Phillips. He discusses the results on McLean in the Morning.
Just assume we have a climate crisis
Climate modelers and disaster proponents remind me of the four guys who were marooned on an island, after their plane went down. The engineer began drawing plans for a boat; the lumberjack cut trees to build it; the pilot plotted a course to the nearest known...
Frontier Centre Releases Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Vancouver
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Vancouver, a new report authored by Wendell Cox, a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre. Mr Cox is an expert in land use and transportation policy and the...
Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Vancouver
The average household can no longer afford a home in the average price range. Housing is so expensive in Vancouver that an additional annual income of between $22,000 and $40,000 is required for the average house, compared to other major metropolitan areas (Toronto,...