The Frontier Centre for Public Policy releases its inaugural Local Government Performance Index (LGPI). It contains some 3000 data points concerning the 2005 financial performance of municipalities in Canada’s 30 most populous jurisdictions.
A Window on Two Policy Models
Mad scientists could not have designed it if they tried. Over the past decade, telecommunications privatization has played out in a continent-sized laboratory. In the middle of North America, two almost identical companies in the almost identical markets of Manitoba …
SaskEd Measures Up
What isn’t measured isn’t done, and compared to Manitoba, Saskatchewan is leading the way on measuring education results.
The Baltic Tiger
A small European nation is outperforming older economies by three to one, find out how & what Canada might learn from them.
The Urban Heat Island Effect in Winnipeg
Temperatures are warmer in the centre city compared to more isolated measuring points.
Not Time to Undo Major NDP Policy Success
Despite all the evidence that rent control harms those who can least afford it, the common remedies of rent control and restrictions on condo conversions, more like the cold wind than the warm sun, are oozing their way back onto the political agenda.
TILMA Means Big-Picture Benefits
Joining TILMA, a western provincial free trade area, will force Saskatchewan to decide between vested interests and all ’round economic opportunity.