Protests in Quebec over planned tuition increases during the past academic year have sparked a considerable amount of debate over the current state of post-secondary education in Canada. Frontier Centre analysts have been active participants in this debate, and the Frontier Centre has become one of the country’s leading sources of public policy analysis on issues related to tuition fees and other issues surrounding higher education.
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Oil Sands Development Is Not A “Historic Mistake”
Ben Eisen and Eric Merkley show that oil sands development is an important economic opportunity contrary to the comments of EU clean energy advisor Jeremy Rifkin.
Zero Tuition Makes Zero Sense
Ben Eisen shows why the Alberta Liberal party’s proposal to eliminate tuition in the province is not supported by the evidence.
Resource Consumption and Economic Production in Canada and the United States:: How Economic Activity in North America Benefits People Everywhere
Ben Eisen and Kenneth Green show that high levels of resource consumption in North America enables economic production and wealth creation that brings benefits to people all over the world.
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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
Seen and Unseen Impact of Walmart Stores
Reason.tv has produced a great short video (7:33) discussing the impact of Walmart stores in American communities, as well as the sources of opposition to the development of new stores.
Beware of Politicians Bearing “Green” Gifts: Governments can’t plan and spend their way to green prosperity
Many activists and politicians promise to improve economic performance through government spending on “green job” creation. Economic theory and empirical evidence from Europe both suggest that such efforts are unlikely to strengthen the economy.
FCPP Green Jobs Study Covered in National Post
This week, the Frontier Centre released a new study showing that European experiments with centrally planned "green job" creation schemes have generally failed to produce positive outcomes. Instead of creating jobs and generating economic growth, "green jobs"...
The Environmentalists Need to Stop Crying Wolf
A study released this week concludes that government “green-job” programs aren’t the yellow-brick road to happiness in Europe.
Green Jobs: The European Experience
Many activists and politicians promise to improve economic performance through government spending on “green jobs.” Economic theory and empirical evidence from Europe both suggest that such efforts are unlikely to strengthen the economy.
The Right to an Ipod
Among other things, Congressman Jackson suggests that the United States should try to solve its long-term employment problems by giving every child in the United States an Ipod.
Depressing Quote of the Day
The problem, the researchers say, is that the medical system just isn’t that good at keeping people from dying.
Inappropriate Editorializing by the AP on WI Public Sector Wages
Just read an AP story, reprinted in The Globe and Mail about the standoff in Wisconsin between Governor Walker and the state's public employee unions. The story correctly asserts that this is the first of many battles that will be fought in the coming months and years...
American vs. European Poverty Measures
Relative poverty lines are actually only measurements of inequality, and tell us almost nothing about material deprivation.