Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Limited, or CDIC, is the Crown corporation that insures against losses of chequing and savings account deposits. Using an intrinsic value method, and discounting to the present CDIC’s projected future net income as a proxy for its...
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Vagueness and Generality Could Have an ‘Intersectionality’ in Making Bill C-69 Unworkable
The federal government has boxed itself into a corner in its attempts to square the process for reviewing and approving large mining, pipeline or other projects with the private sector’s desire to have any such process be clear, simple, relatively quick, and not...
Gas and Garbage
Canadians have fought a lot of tough characters over the years. Sudanese warriors of the Mahdi, Boer guerillas, armies of the German, Austrian, and Japanese empires, Nazi SS panzer divisions, Red Chinese, North Koreans, Serbs, Croats, and Taleban all came to rue the...
Digital Charter Is Trojan Horse for Censorship
On May 21, the national government unveiled a lengthy "digital charter" with the noble goals of expanded internet access and more trust online. If one peels back the feel-good 10 principles and stated justifications, however, one finds a new weapon in the censor...
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Crown Corporations Can Evade Disaster If They Are Sold Off
The recent unhappy news that Canadian taxpayers will soon be at least partially bailing out the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the owners of Nalcor, which is completing the massively over-budget and behind-schedule Muskrat Falls power plant, may be the least...
Canada Looks Like Communism to Calgary Pastor
When Artur Pawlowski came to Canada in 1995, he did not think it would turn out as it has. The pastor of Calgary’s Street Church, famous for his confrontations with police, says Canada looks too much like the Communist Poland he grew up in. “I grew up seeing police...
The Environment: A True Story Part 5 – Climate Change Orthodoxy
Part 5 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
No Lands or Property… Shall Be Liable to Taxation
Section 125 of the Constitution Act, 1867, states: “No Lands or Property belonging to Canada or any Province shall be liable to Taxation.”1 This constitutional protection is at the center of many long standing arguments between the federal government and...
Robert MacBain discusses Gord Downie, Charlie Wenjack and Sir Edward Cornwallis on the Sheldon MacLeod Show on Halifax radio station 97.5.
The Urban Revival Is An Urban Myth, And The Suburbs Are Surging
The past decade has seen a gusher of books arguing for and detailing the supposed ascendency of dense urban cores, like the inimitable Edward Glaeser’s influential Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and...
Day 24 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 24 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 24 we wish for an end to Canada’s quixotic quest to change the...
Day 23 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 23 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 23 we wish that governments would make more use of the...
No More Secrets
In the span of 40 years, Canadian society has gone from paper files in cabinets, to electronic storage of everything from medical records, to what you had in your coffee at Starbucks this morning. Our lives have become itemized and catalogued into easily accessed...
Day 22 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 22 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On day 22 we would like Immigration to Canada to be in the Canadian...
Big Bear’s Story
Who was Big Bear? He was the last Chief to cave in and sign the infamous numbered treaties that confined aboriginals to reservations. Big Bear held out because he accurately foresaw the consequences of that policy. His story is important because his own tribe, starved...