In November 2020, China and 14 Asia-Pacific countries (including Japan and South Korea) signed a free trade deal covering 2.2 billion people and nearly 30% of the international trade. This new treaty (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) shows that the Pacific...
Canadians have no idea all of the fancy Tesla battery technology has mostly been developed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dalhousie University has partnered with the American Electric Vehicle (EV) manufacturer, and created what is commonly referred to as the Tesla Dalhousie...
Hydro was once heralded as “Manitoba’s oil”. The Limestone Dam was finished in 1990, twice the size of Keeyask (still under construction) – at one-sixth its cost. With Limestone running, residential and industry customers could look forward to having cheap and...
Danielle Smith interviews Dr. Marco Navarro-Génie and Dr. Barry Cooper, senior research fellows at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy about their new book The Politics of Pandemic Moral Panic. (16 minutes) Listen to the interview here
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Elon Musk’s Starlink Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network has been awarded US$885 million over ten years to build out rural internet access in the U.S. This was the fourth-largest amount awarded under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). Testing of preliminary Starlink...
Would you trust an election where no one counts the votes? Many jurisdictions in Canada, the United States, and eight other countries do just that and place full trust in computer systems they cannot scrutineer. Election officials parrot the claims of the voting...
Since the 1990s zombie firms have been on the rise; in fact, the Bank of Canada states that the number of zombie firms in the country is higher than in other countries. These zombies are anything but the fictional ones referred to in movies, these ones are very real!...
Divesting YYC will benefit taxpayers The Calgary International Airport WINNIPEG, MB, December 18, 2020 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Grounded in More Ways Than One: A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of the Calgary International Airport...
In light of the mainstream media coverage of riots and protests in the U.S. in 2020 and the questionable claim by some in the media that the riots were "mostly peaceful protests”, the distinction between violent and peaceful protest is worthy of examination. In the...
Policing is confronted with a legitimacy crisis. Mass incarceration, high-profile incidents involving seemingly unnecessary uses of force by police officers, together with profound racial and socioeconomic disparities have prompted deep criticisms from across the...
Months late, Manitoba Hydro has finally reported its poor financial results for 2019-20 and the first quarter of the current year. It also has disclosed that it has sold its long-standing 40% stake in electrical engineering consultancy Teshmont (to global engineering...
Pandemics have a way of changing the world. The Plague of Justinian which hit the Mediterranean area in the 500s not only killed millions but it crucially weakened the Byzantine Empire and helped ruin its plans to reconquer western Europe from the barbarians. The...
In October, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicated that the United Kingdom was preparing to leave the European Union’s trading area without a deal by the end of the year, citing the unwillingness of Brussels diplomats and bureaucrats to negotiate in good...