The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new research paper, Against the Minimum Wage. This research paper is authored by Matthew Lau, a research associate with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper reviews the negative effects of rising...
“An anthropologist is someone who respects the distinctive values of every culture but his own. We in the West are all anthropologists now.” --Roger Kimball, The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of America-- Soon after arriving at McGill...
The Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Pacific Northwest LNG Pipeline proposals have been scrapped. Scotiabank estimates that the Canadian economy forfeits $15.6 billion per year as other pipeline proposals await approval. Has this happened because Canadians...
The string of calls for public apologies continues unabated. Yet again, demands have been made that Pope Francis apologize for the role that the Catholic Church played in the Indian Residential School system. His refusal to do so has outraged native leaders....
One of the most notable features of Nazi regime in Germany was its anti-intellectualism. While it claimed to be in the forefront of scientific and technical advances, its ideology and totalitarian rule made free enquiry and interchange between scientists and other...
Since the founding of this country, a totalitarian, closed form of government has been considered unacceptable and un-American. The public assumes they have the freedom to be left alone and to live a life in privacy, while the government is believed to be open...
Manitoba employs considerably more local and provincial public sector workers per capita than the rest of Canada. In an increasingly lower-income province facing a convergence of high debt, structural budget deficits, and flat or declining equalization payments,...
To date, the western strategy towards the ongoing war in Ukraine has been a failure. Not only has there been no cessation of violence, but the violence in certain areas of Eastern Ukraine is actually worsening, and the world is no closer to any diplomatic solution....
First Nations poverty may be Canada's most important moral issue in generations. Perry Bellegarde, the newly elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), cites United Nations statistics showing the tragic gap between First Nations and the rest of...
First Nations poverty may be Canada’s most important moral issue in generations. Perry Bellegarde, the newly elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), cites United Nations statistics showing the tragic gap between First Nations and the rest of...
Power Point presentation from Red Tape: Canada's Hidden Tax. A Breakfast on the Frontier event held in Winnipeg on January 20, 2015 with Elliot Sims. Listen to his speech here: http://archive.fcpp.org/posts/red-tape-canadas-hidden-tax-speech View the...
Elliot Sims speech and Q&A at a Frontier Centre for Public Policy Breakfast entitled: Red Tape: Canada's Hidden Tax. View the Power Point Presentation here: http://archive.fcpp.org/posts/red-tape-canadas-hidden-tax-powerpoint-slides
As the federal election looms, a hailstorm of criticism is being launched against the Harper government’s failure on environmental issues. Already the media has informed us that we are not protecting our caribou and that Canada is an international pariah with...
This article was written by Wendell Cox and originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Hong Kong, Sydney, Vancouver and the San Francisco Bay Area have the worst middle-income housing affordability in 9 nations, according to 11th Annual Demographia International...
Rumors abound about "slumlords," as there are landlords that fail to meet the basic needs of their renters and are driven solely by profit. But landlords can also be your average pensioner or middle-income couple, and they have their own stories to share of...