Air travellers will be annoyed and exasperated at yet another hike in the almost-cheerily-named Airport Improvement Fee, ‘AIF’, of 25%, from $20 to $25 on every airline ticket originating at YVR, Vancouver International Airport. However, they are a relatively minor...
The earth is constantly bombarded by lethal radiation, though we are fortunately shielded by our planetary magnetic field. Our sun produces a constant output of energy; however, due to the build up of energy and the fluctuation of magnetic fields in the sun, sometimes...
This summer, the federal government paid employers more than $200 million and up to 100 percent of compensation to get them to hire students. If these young adults are Canada’s best and brightest—enjoying taxpayer-funded education—why are they so unappealing to...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) has just released Running Hard to Adapt in a Dangerously Fast-Changing Industry by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the FCPP. The paper conducts an indepth valuation and strategic appraisal of SaskPower, using an...
For standards of living to grow, productivity growth must be strong and continually renewed. That is one notion that nearly all economists can agree on. So, it is not surprising that politicians scramble to discover new or not-so-new ways to boost productivity growth....
Behavioural psychologist Robert Epstein believes Google can and does influence voters and that research teams in Canada and elsewhere need to monitor how users are being swayed. Epstein, the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of the American...
The conservative Liberal National Coalition went to the Australian election on May 18 as a minority government. All opinion polls saw the Labor Party gaining a majority of 8-20 in the 151-seat lower house. In the event, the Coalition was returned with a firm majority...
In December 2009, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued its Endangerment Finding (EF) – decreeing that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other “greenhouse gases” (GHGs) endanger the health and welfare of Americans. In the process, EPA ignored the incredible...
There has been a lot of concern and digital ink spilled over the slow increase in living standards of the average, or ‘median’, Canadian over the past ten, twenty, thirty, forty or more years. In the long run, economists say that the key to increasing real, i.e.,...
The transgender movement has made great strides in recent years advancing the cause of a marginalized minority. However, a claim of the movement - namely the absolute right of people to choose their gender, and have that gender choice legally enforced - is resulting...
The multi-colored placard in front of a $2-million home in North Center Chicago proudly proclaimed, “In this house we believe: No human is illegal” – and “Science is real” (plus a few other liberal mantras). I knew right away where the owners stood on climate change,...
Cabs or taxis, have been a commonplace sight in our cities for many years. The first documented coach for hire was in 1621, in London, England. It only took 33 years (1654) for there to be enough issues with irregularities and numbers of them that the English...
Frontier Centre for Public Policy is proud to release its new premier quarterly magazine Ideas that change your world is our premier quarterly magazine delivering to you some of Frontier's latest thought-provoking, eye-opening, and captivating content from the past 90...
The ubiquitous use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), along with its per capita derivative, means we often get away with writing the abbreviation alone. Yet this widespread social proof offers a false sense of accuracy for a fragile measurement overdue for an update....
During the recent Alberta election campaign, with the province’s unemployment rate remaining stubbornly high relative to the rest of Canada with the exception of the Atlantic provinces, the now-governing United Conservative Party proposed reducing the minimum wage...