Communication technology is ever growing, and this will continue to mean that smaller organisations and individuals can more effectively collaborate without the need to be ensconced in large companies.
David Seymour
David Seymour directed the Frontier Centre’s Saskatchewan office from 2007 to 2011. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Philosophy from the University of Auckland, where he also tutored Economics. After working as an engineer in New Zealand, he applied his passion for sound policy analysis to policy issues on the Prairies. In four years working for the Frontier Centre, David carried out extensive media work, presenting policy analysis through local and national television, newspapers, and radio. His policy columns were published in newspapers in every province as well as the Globe and Mail and the National Post. David produced policy research papers on telecommunications privatization, education, environmental policy, fiscal policy, poverty, and taxi deregulation. However, his major project with the Frontier Centre was the annual Local Government Performance Index (LGPI) which compiled financial performance statistics across all major Canadian cities. David also produced an 18 part video series based on Henry Hazlitt’s classic book Economics in One Lesson and wrote the book “Birth of a Boom – Saskatchewan’s Dawning Golden Age” in 2011.
Research by David Seymour
Not on the Frontier…
We answer a critical letter in the National Post.
No Need to Regulate High-Tech Taxis: Technology will eventually make Toronto’s taxi troubles quaint.
New software to be used with smart phones is poised to revolutionise the traditional taxi industry.
The End of Taxi Regulation: The advent of ubiquitous smart phones will be the undoing of conventional taxi regulation.
Ever-present smart phones are poised to transform the traditional taxi industry and rattle the regulations that currently govern it.
Featured News
Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
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The Case for Water Markets
An 8 minute TED Video on water markets.
Farmer Knows the Land
A Saskatchewan Farmer writes about the role of wetlands on sask farm land over the last century, as a sink and a source of water in wet and dry years. With the advent of larger equipment, farmers of that time did a more complete job of land development. When you read...
Florida’s Interior Design Regulations (yes, really).
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The Economist on Taming Leviathan
An Economist Special Report touched on some Frontier themes.
McKitrick Opens Can of Whoopass on Earth Hour
Why it’s an ignorant and anti human ritual.
Nestle Chairman Attacks Biofuels
“It is absolutely immoral to push hundreds of millions of people into hunger…”
National Post Ed. Board on Equalization
The Post endorses Frontier’s take on Equalization.