With much fanfare, the Ontario government has brought back “Buck-a-Beer” by lowering the government-mandated price floor on a bottle or can of beer (with alcohol volume below 5.6%) from $1.25 to $1.00. Some Ontarians who don’t drink or who consume only more expensive...
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Airplane Safety and Alcohol
Ever since Wilbur and Orville Wright proved that heavier than air machines could indeed fly, safety has been the first priority when it comes to air travel. Engines and chassis are inspected and re-inspected. It only makes sense that if some gizmo in your car engine...
Michael Zwaagstra discusses back to school issues on CBC Blue Sky Radio.
Profile Series: Chad Germann
Native American entrepreneur Chad Germann, 45, believes that the path to Indigenous entrepreneurial success is in careful thought and self-development. “You need to figure out a way to be valuable to others,” said Ger- mann, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band...
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The Renewable Part of Hydrogen is the Hype
Once again, the world is staging ClimateFest 26, aka the United Nations Conference of the Parties, where peddlers of alternative energy schemes try to plunge their dippers into the river of climate change funding that flows around the world. This funding is generated...
Small Gestures Speak Louder than Great Deeds
The age-old expression that actions speak louder than words conveys an important insight: character is best judged through action. Anyone can say or promise anything but doing requires ability and skill, discipline and commitment. So, the simplest test of character is...
Questioning the Prairie Climate Centre’s Extreme Weather Claims
The IPCC report AR5 and it's report on extreme weather says there is little evidence that extreme weather events can be attributed to human-caused emissions. Weather extremes in the U.S. were worse in the 1930's and 1950's than in recent decades. So why is the Prairie...
Climate ‘Culture War’ Will Doom Australia to Fail on Emissions Targets, Labor says
Australia will not achieve its emissions reductions targets until it ends the “culture war” on climate policy, Labor frontbencher Mark Butler has said. Speaking at the Carbon Market Institute emissions reduction conference in Melbourne on Wednesday, Butler said that...
Should we be skeptical of the benefits of Crown Corporations?
There has long been a battle in public policy about government’s role in running enterprises. Strangely, that battle was not settled in the 1980’s and ‘90’s when many state-owned firms were ‘privatized’. The surprising fact: Canadian governments still own many Crown...
Frontier Senior Fellow and retired judge Brian Giesbrecht explodes the myth that we are all living on “treaty land” as per fashionable pronouncements prior to hockey games and assorted public events. With Geoff Currier on Winnipeg’s CJOB. (~18 minutes)
Perverse, Conflicted Ethical Systems
Third Reich Forest Minister Hermann Goering was an avid hiker and ecologist who once sent a man to a concentration camp for cutting up a frog for fish bait. In 1933 he and other Nazi Party leaders enacted anti-vivisection laws to stop what he called “unbearable...
Abetting Tax Minimization is Least of Export Development Corporation’s Problems
Export Development Corporation, ‘EDC’, a Crown lending corporation owned by the federal government, has found itself in controversy by virtue of providing funding to a mining company, Turquoise Hill. This mining firm utilized offshore entities to minimize taxes it...
Should those running traditional businesses being edged out by sharing economy stalwarts like AirBNB and Uber be getting more consideration for their positions by politicians? Gerard Lucyshyn, Vice-President of Research at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy joins...
Stopping Pipeline Projects in Canada Hurts Developing Countries
The last few years have not been good for pipeline projects in Canada. The much-delayed Keystone XL pipeline continues to be plagued by delays, TransCanada made big news by axing the Energy East pipeline. Now, Kinder Morgan has cut spending on the critical Trans...
Restoring Housing Affordability in Toronto: A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity
By Wendell Cox May 4, 2018 Recently, Ontario PC leader Doug Ford’s proposed building single-family homes in a large supply of urban fringe (greenbelt) land to address Toronto’s severe housing affordability. This was a unique...