Frontier Centre's VP Engagement & Development David Leis was interviewed by Great.com about the role of think tanks. Bad policies need calling out because bad policy choices turn into bad ideas. Bad ideas are hard to kill and can have serious consequences. The...
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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 more patients....
Thinker’s Corner on the Frontier: Will Alberta Stay or Go?
Will Alberta Stay or Go? A conversation with Tom Flanagan, editor and co-author of the new book “Moment of Truth: How to Think About Alberta's Future” Alberta is at a crossroads. Its situation in Canadian confederation is unfair. It is unequal. So... what comes next?...
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 protection on the...
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Thinker’s Corner Video – A Conversation About Canada’s deadly response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
In the latest Frontier Centre research paper, David Redman, former head of Alberta’s Emergency Management Agency, holds that Canada’s Prime Minister, Premiers and Medical Officers of Health must be held responsible for this deadly Canadian response, particularly for...
Do all Lives Matter in Public Policy?
Many nations, including Canada, have taken the unprecedented step to undertake an economic lockdown of much of the nation’s economy in the attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. But in doing so, these drastic decisions taken in the name of health will likely and...