Teaching is a challenging job, anyone who spends any time in school knows that teachers have a lot of demands placed upon them. Their responsibilities go far beyond basic classroom instruction, from dealing with disruptive student behaviours to organizing extra...
Recruiting and teaching international students in Canada is big business for private universities, and the federal government has backed a scheme that puts more cash in the pockets of university administrators and wreaks havoc with the Canadian job market. In 2000,...
Great White North Lacks Supply, Research to Match Southern Neighbor Crippling drug prices in the United States have brought even Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and President Donald Trump together; they both favor drug imports from Canada to ease the pain. Vermont has...
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, ‘AECL’, is the federal Crown corporation which develops nuclear technology, mainly now in Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, which sells nuclear isotopes for medical and other purposes. Using an intrinsic value method, and discounting to...
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
Individuals aboriginal citizens are not represented by anybody, particularly the Assembly of First Nations. That’s why grass roots advocate Leona Freed favours a modernized treaty annuity which would direct resources directly to ordinary aboriginals. (2 minutes)
CANADA, January 21, 2019 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released the 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. The survey is prepared by Wendell Cox of Demographia (USA) and a Senior Fellow at Frontier Centre and co-authored...
In Part 1, I discussed some issues around these Social Media companies and whether they are considered monopolies. Because of the nature of their actual business (digital advertising) they aren’t monopolies, they are each other’s competitors in a larger marketplace....
The ’60s Scoop was back in the news this month, and I expect we will hear more about it in the coming years. In fact, I am guessing there are plans in place to make it the subject of the next national inquiry after the missing women’s inquiry has wrapped up. So, what...
One of the biggest risks to taxpayers with Crown corporations is their dependence on government subsidy; and how vulnerable they are if such subsidies were ever to be reduced. Marine Atlantic Inc. monopolizes the market for passenger water transportation on the east...
An Ontario Superior Court ruling, delivered December 2018, has lit the fuse for a political, cultural and economic time-bomb that will impact Canadians across the country, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Ruling on a claim by the chiefs of 21 First Nations that...
When David Vigneault addressed the Economic Club, as the nation's intelligence chief, he acknowledged his agency's first rule: "Don't talk." True to form, he said little in his tightly scripted remarks on December 4. What the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...
If life is so terrible on so many reserves, why do people stay? Why don’t they just pack up and move to the city? Actually about half of them have, but about half remain. That’s because they are very attached to the land. Their connection to their ancestors, to their...
“There’s a sucker born every minute”, a phrase often attributed to the 19th century showman, P.T. Barnum, has existed in some form for many years. It predates modern technology and it even predates Mr. Barnum. Con men are people who take advantage of our default...