Climate change policies designed to reduce and eliminate carbon dioxide emissions are causing chaos and falling living standards around the world. Moves to ban fertilizers, for example, recently caused a famine in Sri Lanka that collapsed that country’s government. Those …
Policy on the Frontier – The State of Canada’s Economy with William Watson
Canada faces a myriad of serious economic challenges. On May 18th, the Canadian consumer price inflation hit a three-decade high, adding pressure on the Bank of Canada to continue with major interest rate increases. This at a time of record …
Policy on the Frontier | An Industry Insider on the Real State of Canadian Energy
Frontier Centre · Policy on the Frontier with Terry Etam An Industry Insider on the Real State of Canadian Energy Affordable, dependable, reliable and secure energy has always, been foundational to Canada’s economic competitiveness and high standard of living. Yet …
Policy on the Frontier – The State of Canadian Journalism in 2022
The media plays a vital role in the health and well-being of our democracy. And yet, the trust and confidence in legacy media has never been lower. At the same time, so called independent and smaller media outlets are on the …
Policy on the Frontier: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Healthcare Crisis – Sometimes health care hurts the very people it is supposed to heal. This has long been the situation in Canada, where waitlists, rationed services and a fragmented system are harming more and …
Policy on the Frontier | The Problem with Trudeau’s Anti-Energy Agenda
Our topic: Energy policy plays a central role in the health and vibrancy of Canada’s economy and in the quality of life and high living standard of every Canadian. Canada’s enormous energy wealth, particularly its immense conventional oil and gas reserves, …
Thinker’s Corner on the Frontier: No More Covid-19 Lockdowns
The average age of Canadians who died of COVID-19 in 2020 was 83.8 years and typically they had 2 to 3 co-morbidities. Yet governments chose to deal with the pandemic with catastrophically damaging lockdowns of the economy instead of focusing …
Thinkers’ Corner – Tackling Canada’s Housing Affordability Crisis
A conversation with Wendell Cox, author of the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey Our Topic: Most communities in Canada are experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Indeed, housing affordability is now identified in numerous opinion polls as one of the …