Greyhound Canada stunned many in Western Canada with a surprise, summer announcement that it’s pulling its buses out of all four Western provinces. The July 9 statement blames an aging population, urban migration and competition from ultra low-cost airlines like Swoop...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Public Choice Alternative: The Business Development Bank of Canada- Blatant Deficiency of Cashflow by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The paper conducts an in depth...
You have opinions. I know you do. You have opinions about immigration, gun crime, people who let their cats run loose, and the prospect of a return of major league baseball to Montreal. You have thought deep thoughts about aboriginals, levels of taxation,...
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) was officially established on July 13, 1995. BDC is a federal bank exclusively focusing on Canadian entrepreneurs. BDC is a Crown corporation, owned by the Government of Canada. BDC Capital is a subsidiary of BDC, and is...
The Chinese economy is growing and surpassing the U.S. economy in size. That stature, with its consequent soft and hard power, means opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) regime needs to be multilateral. No matter how much unipolarity the U.S. has enjoyed...
Trade is essential for Manitoba’s economy. International exports and imports represented 46.4 per cent of GDP for Manitoba in 2018. With a significant goods-related industry estimated at 26.9 per cent of GDP in 2019, Manitoba needs to have strong trading partners to...
Recently, a jury’s acquittal of a white man for the killing of an Indigenous man is highlighting some of the deepest divisions in this country. One of those divisions is between people living on reserves, and the farmers and townspeople living in the vicinity of those...
Political polarization in both the United States and Canada seems to increase every year. Those on the left appear to move ever farther to the left; while those on the right find less and less in common with their fellow citizens. The political rhetoric has, in fact,...
With Michael Zwaagstra, Contributor to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and a public high school teacher, education researcher, and author.
Ontario taxpayers receive nothing but bad news from their politicians on drugs. Last April, 2017, both the NDP and Liberals proposed expensive drug plans within four days of each other. The one proposed by ruling Liberals took effect January 1, 2018 to the destruction...
Part 9 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
While not literally ‘pie in the sky’, asteroid mining used to be science fiction. Perhaps, it is no longer fantasy. Various private space companies have focused on launching satellites, with hazy side-bets on future colonization ventures. However, recent...
2017 featured incredibly intense, damaging wildfires in California: first the Wine Country fires of October, and later the massive Thomas Fire in December. Each destroyed hundreds of homes, the latter in many of the affluent suburbs and enclaves northwest of Los...
A Toronto law firm has initiated a class action case against the Federal Government because one patient claimed that she had been abused at an Indian hospital in the late 1960s, when she was 10 years old ... [if] successful, it will potentially cost all...
Canada’s great divide follows along the rugged border that separates Alberta and British Columbia. However, Canada has another Great Divide in addition to the geographical one. The trial of Gerald Stanley, for the killing of Colten Boushie, brought into sharp focus...