GDPR. General Data Protection Regulations sounds like something that the average person needs to know nothing about, but on the contrary, they affect us on a day-to-day basis. There was a time, for the last 20 years, where most jurisdictions had similar requirements...
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Auckland: “A Vancouver of the South Pacific; Beautiful, but Utterly Unaffordable”
New Zealand’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Phil Twyford reasserted the coalition government’s intention to abolish Auckland’s urban growth boundary at a recent environmental summit. Environmental Defense Society (EDS) CEO Gary Taylor expressed concern...
ICBC: Incredibly Cascading Burgeoning Catastrophe
WINNIPEG, MB, September 24, 2018 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Public Choice Alternative: ICBC by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper conducts an in depth valuation of the alternative...
BridgeCity Interview: Entertainment v. Propaganda
Canadians enjoy the escapism of movies and television. Is it just harmless entertainment or does this stuff have an actual tangible effect on our social behaviors? Today's society is the most entertainment focused of all time. Some would argue that our media simple...
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
The Environment: A True Story Part 19 – How We Measure The WMP
Part 19 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
Canada Wins If The Globe Warms
“Why can’t Al Gore be right?” asked my friend as we suffered another bitter Canadian winter. Intolerable Januaries aside, global warming alarmists suggest we should be happy if global warming does not occur. But that may not be the case, especially so for Canadians. A...
Toxic Feminism
Feminism began as a challenge to male domination and female subordination. It could have become a champion of equality and the dignity of individual human beings. Unfortunately, contemporary feminism is not a liberation from sexism. It is true that feminism rejects...
Among the silliest of current left-wing demands is that white people cease “cultural appropriation”, that is, the borrowing of styles, foods, dress, or art of other cultures. A Latina student in California insisted that hoop earrings were an invention of her people...
Our History-Warts and All
The modern fashion of attempting to rewrite history appears to be gaining ground. Hector Langevin’s name no longer adorns his building in Ottawa, Cornwallis’s statue has been toppled, and the history rewriters are busily taking dead aim at our most famous Canadian of...
Sex, Law, and Religion
Two thousand years ago, two small religious groups fought against the prevailing sexual morality of the Roman Empire. Unlike their neighbours, who were permitted to abuse their wives, have sex with their slaves, keep concubines, patronize brothels, attend orgies, and...
What is Middle-Income Housing Affordability?
Few local or metropolitan issues receive more attention than housing affordability. This article provides a perspective on housing affordability. The focus is on the approach used by the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, which I co-author...
Canada Should Fix Equalization and Other Regional Subsidies Now
Canada Should Fix Equalization and Other Regional Subsidies Now, the latest study by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, demonstrates how equalization is unfair, diminishes productivity, holds back economic development,...
Smoot-Hawley Redux?
The Trump administration has unveiled a long list of punishing tariffs that will affect everyone. This time around they will not exempt Canadian steel and aluminium. Is this the beginning of a worldwide trade war, or simply a clever negotiating tactic by a President...