Day 6 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day Six, we wish for more parental choice in education, family vouchers,...
Recently, Australia released a new national energy policy called the ‘National Energy Guarantee’ (NEG). While Australia is a long way away from Canada, this policy has a sad resemblance to a similar Canadian policy. It is a desperate attempt to make renewable energy...
Day 5 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day Five, we would like to see a real debate about climate change. The...
“The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation,” Justice Minister of Canada famously said in 1967. Fifty years later, this statement is no longer true. People who are straight, gay, transgendered, or otherwise cannot get a room for the night from anyone willing...
“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
Stuffed between the sections of the Globe and Mail last week was a fairly thick, glossy publication entitled Our Kids: Canada’s Private School Guide, an annual digest that I’ve browsed through occasionally, primarily out of an educator’s interest in the schools that...
British Columbia’s quandary: To keep Columbia Power, or add 15,000 teachers, nurses, or paramedics? There are two generally accepted methods for valuing a company: its intrinsic value as a cash-generating enterprise, and its standard market value in comparison with...
The ride-sharing industry, UBER specifically, is disrupting traditional transportation. UBER provides people with an alternative choice from taxis and buses for their transportation needs. This type of service increases the competition in the choices for people: one’s...
Hugh Hefner has finally died and I have competing Latin maxims battling in my head. On the one hand, De mortuis nil nisi bonum – “of the dead say nothing but good” – is a wise and charitable saying. On the other hand, so is De mortuis nil nisi verum– “of the dead...
In Western Canada, many university students fail to graduate. In fact, figures suggest that between 20 and 30 per cent of students at many North American universities do not progress beyond their first year, and less than 60 per cent of those enrolled in three- and...
We are indeed fortunate to live in a free and open democratic society, where we can go to the polls, cast our ballots, and all the votes count to elect people that represent our interests even if they are competing interests. Citizens rely on their local governments...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released the concept paper Financial Reorganization of Manitoba Hydro. This paper is authored by Graham Lane, a retired Chartered Accountant and former Chair of Manitoba’s Public Utilities Board. He has had a multifaceted...
Anyone who has been involved in municipal politics--at least over the past couple of decades--has heard virtually every candidate say they support increased transparency. Why do they say this and then not follow through? Transparency makes the democratic process work...
A few months ago, State Street Global Advisors, ‘SSGA’, the self-described ‘third largest asset advisor in the world’, celebrated its first anniversary of their creation of a new specialty Exchange Traded Fund, the SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (SHE). An...