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Health Services Choice

Health Services Choice

  Canada’s healthcare system faces long wait times, staff shortages, and rising costs. Some argue that introducing private options alongside public care could improve access and efficiency, while others fear it may undermine universal access. ...

Waste and Poverty

Waste and Poverty

  By March 2024, food banks across Canada recorded over 2 million visits in a single month, doubling the usage compared to a decade earlier. Meanwhile, Canadian dairy farms dumped an estimated 1 billion litres of milk (representing 10 percent of production) due...

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Housing Availability Relief

Housing Availability Relief

  In 2023, Canada hosted over 1 million international students, a 29% increase from the previous year. This surge intensified pressures on housing and public services, prompting the federal government to implement caps on study permits. Click...

Tariff Retaliations

Tariff Retaliations

  Despite the aggressive rhetoric leading up to and during the recent election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney quietly abandoned retaliatory tariffs to defend Canadian economic interests against American tariffs. Click below to view the...

Housing Affordability

Housing Affordability

  Frontier's Demographia 2025 report finds that urban containment strategies such as greenbelts and growth boundaries primarily drive Canada’s housing affordability crisis. By artificially limiting land available for housing, these policies have contributed to...

Trump Meets Carney

Trump Meets Carney

  Prime Minister Mark Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this week to address growing trade and diplomatic tensions. The talks were described as constructive. Carney rejected overtures for closer integration and emphasized the need to...

What could $25.6 billion buy?

What could $25.6 billion buy?

Canada exports most of its oil and natural gas to the United States at discounted prices—approximately $20 less per barrel of oil and $2 less per gigajoule of gas—due to limited pipeline capacity. This infrastructure shortfall forces Canadian producers to accept...