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The Good Ship Canada is Taking on too Much Water
There’s a reason Justin Trudeau no longer says, “The budget will balance itself.” It won’t. He made the famous comment in 2013 immediately following a Conservative budget. The full quote is, “The commitment needs to be a commitment to grow the economy and the budget...
The Compelling Case for Selling Canada’s Water to the U.S.
Canada exports huge quantities of water to the United States and all over the world. As the world’s fifth largest exporter of agricultural products – which are composed mainly of water – huge amounts of Canadian water leave the country every day. Whole lakes are...
First Nations’ Water
As we enter 2021, Canada and Indigenous communities should finally commit to making the systemic reforms that will ensure First Nations have drinking water standards that are the same as the rest of the country. For starters, Indigenous communities ought to...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Should go the way of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation
First, some background. In 1969, the federal government passed the Freshwater Fish Marketing Act (FFMA). The FFMC created a federal Crown corporation that acted as the sole buyer of freshwater fish caught in western Canada, northern Canada, and parts of northern...
Drinking from a Water Fountain in Elementary School Provides a Model for Dealing with COVID-19
No doubt many senior citizens will remember drinking from school water fountains long before students carried water bottles. When the school day began, elementary students would rush to get a drink before class, and the other children would queue up in an orderly...
Freedomtalk 2019: Gerard Lucyshyn Presents Tide-Water Access
If you know Frontier, then you will know that we generally write in controversial spaces, we write prolifically, we generate ideas, we are non-partisan and we accept no government money. The nice thing about accepting no government money and being non-partisan you...
Get Used To The Idea: Canadian Energy Requires Tidewater Access
A future U.S. circuit court ruling in Boston – depending on whether it upholds a lower court ruling from Maine – may mean more American cities on both coasts adopt restrictive ordinances prohibiting the bulk loading of crude oil tankers in their city’s ports, thus...
Hazardous Levels of Lead in Canadian Tap Water
Canadians have been exposed to a silent health hazard for more than 40 years: high levels of lead in tap water. Although a clear case of municipal mismanagement, Toronto shows the issue can be handled at the local level with minimal federal oversight—given the right...
Building Pipelines to Tidewater
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Would You Drink This Water?
When one ponders the crisis so many First Nations communities are facing with the quality of water, one can’t help but think of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” The ironic dilemma of the...
Firewater
The “60s’ Scoop” has been much in the news recently, and I expect that we will hear much more about it in the coming weeks and years. In fact, I am guessing that there are already plans to make it the subject of the next national inquiry, soon after the Missing...
Contrary to Rumours, There is No License to Pollute Canadian Waterways
In 2012, the Harper government replaced the old Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) with a new Navigation Protection Act (NPA), aimed at updating and simplifying regulations governing transportation on inland waterways, sparking considerable controversy. Many...