WINNIPEG, MB - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released SGI Ripe for Divestment: A Valuation of Saskatchewan Government Insurance by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper conducts an in depth...
Year: 2018
Indigenous Affairs, A Broken System
"Indigenous Affairs is not like most government departments. Most government departments provide one service to all Canadians. However, Indigenous Affairs provides all services to an individual group of Canadians. Indigenous Affairs has jurisdiction over 90% of...
Louis Riel
One of Canada’s best known historic heroes has taken quite a shellacking lately. John A. Macdonald’s statue was removed from a place of prominence in Victoria by order of its city council, and there have been calls elsewhere for buildings that honour his memory to be...
Profile Series: Kawana Wallace
Kawana Wallace, 27, is an Indigenous entrepreneur who has been able to harness his technical skills to revitalize the Māori language. Wallace is a co-founder and CEO of my Reo Studios, a New Zealand-based software company providing bilingual (English and Māori)...
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What Must Be Done to Curb Canada’s Household Debt
Canada is struggling economically. From inflation and deficits to investment and employment, everything that should be up is down, and everything that should be down is up. One striking symptom of economic rot is household debt, which is rising faster than incomes....
Crown Utilities’ Unfair Advantages Reduce Competition, Innovation
Largely unique among state-owned enterprises, ‘SEOs’, worldwide, Canadian Crown corporations have two key advantages over current and future private sector competitors: non-taxable status and access to low-cost public sector borrowing rates. Other implicit edges...
Economics in One Lesson III: “The Blessings of Destruction”
This short video covers the key points of Chapter Three "The Blessings of destruction" from Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson." The video tells Hazlitt's Cautionary tale about connecting war with profit. Produced by Access Communications in collaboration with...
Two Cheers for Charles III
The recent marriage of Prince Henry to an American divorcée and the declining vigour of our sovereign majesty Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, has led some...
The former Kapyong Barracks site, located on 160 acres of prime Winnipeg real estate, has been vacant since 2004 when the military base closed down. The federal government has tried to sell the land but courts have required that they first negotiate with First Nations...
Newspapers Down But News Remains – Long Live The Printed Word
The old home for the Coventry Evening Telegraph is a building frozen in time. The publishers boarded the place up in 2012 when it moved to more modern facilities. Its home of more than 50 years is now an arts space where people come to take pictures. The scene has a...
Ontario’s New Premier Must Save the Province
Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris On March 8, 2018, former US Vice President Al Gore visited Ontario, Canada in an attempt to help then-Premier Kathleen Wynne win the June 7 provincial election. Gore said, “I travel all over the world, and I cite Ontario as an example of a...
Unlimited Cheap Natural Gas: Win-Win-Win for All But Climate Lobby
The Shale Revolution, technology unleashing vast new oil and natural gas production, is delivering lower energy costs to countries, industries and consumers. Absent revolutionary hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, Canadians’ winter heating bills...
Overreach Opportunities
The Government of Canada initiated a new ideological vetting of applicants for its summer job program for students. The organizations nominating students for summer grants, and the students and their parents, must declare that they conform to Government of Canada...
The Environment: A True Story Part 18 – What Medieval Warm Period
Part 18 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
Freedom of Religion Disappearing in Canada
Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all Canadians in the Charter of Rights and Freedom. The Charter has taken two major blows recently - one from a recent policy change implemented earlier this year by the Trudeau government, the second from our Supreme Court. The...