This development was recently predicted by Frontier’s Peter McCaffrey, who wrote in the SUN chain of newspapers (and elsewhere) that Quebec student groups would be likely to move the goalposts further if the modest planned tuition rises were cancelled.
Ben Eisen
Prediction Markets and Climate Change Policy
Prediction markets may also be able to help policymakers make better decisions. One policy area where they may prove especially useful is environmental policymaking in response to climate change. Given the highly technical nature of the complicated scientific questions that lie at the hart of the policy questions surrounding climate change, and the fact that these questions have become highly politicized, new sources of objective information about the likelihood of accelerating global warming in the years ahead would be extremely valuable.
Frontier Centre Research In The News
The Frontier Centre has released several major papers in recent weeks that have generated a significant amount of discussion about important policy problems in Canada. Michael Zwaagstra's policy study on the subject of highly controversial "no-zero" grading policies...
A Step Forward For Online Higher Ed?
Two who are bullish on the idea that web-based learning can make education “better, cheaper and easier to access” are Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, the proprietors of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. This week, they announced the creation of “Marginal Revolution University, ” which will soon provide free instructional content in the field of economics.
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Government Employment Reductions in the 1990s
Austerity isn’t easy, and when Canada had to slash its deficits in the 1990s it looks like part of what that meant was a real reduction in the number of people employed by government across the country.
Production, Not Destruction, Creates Prosperity
All kinds of bad policy proposals are borne out of the mistaken belief that you can generate prosperity by destroying valuable and useful things so that people have to be employed creating replacements.
Fairness Demands Additional Commons Seats for Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta: All Canadians Deserve Fair Representation in Parliament
New legislation will give additional parliamentary representation to Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta to ensure that their representation in the House of Commons better reflects their populations.
Want to Cut Costs? Start With the Public Sector: More public servants and compensation costs driving federal wage bill growth
Canada needs an aggressive debt reduction strategy, and an important component of that strategy should be slowing down the growth of the government wage bill.
Cutting the Government Wage Bill
I’ve got a commentary in today’s National Post, in which I discuss yesterday’s budget, the need for governments in Canada to cut costs, and the growth of the government wage bill in recent years.
The Doomsday Prophesies of Radical Environmentalism: The Deep Green Crowd Has a Record of False Apocalyptic Predictions
Predictions of environmental catastrophes resulting from global cooling and overpopulation promoted in by radical environmentalists in the 1970s did not come true.
The Unintended Consequences of Canada’s Equalization Program: How Canada’s equalization program has some provinces more equal than others
Although well-intended, Canada’s equalization program has produced a number of unintended consequences in both have and have-not provinces.
Taxpayers’ Money Will Continue To Fund Political Parties
In fact government handouts will still be the primary source of funds for all five political parties represented in Parliament.
Majority Mandate Demands An Ambitious Agenda: The new Conservative majority government should be ambitious and energetic.
With a newly elected majority government, the Conservative party has the opportunity to pursue an ambitious reform agenda to address the major policy problems facing Canada.