Brian Peckford, Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier from 1979 to 1989, believes a false consensus on coronavirus has been manufactured by selective coverage and censorship courtesy of Big Tech and mainstream media. “Big Tech are Facebook and Twitter who have had the...
Peter Holle
Peter Holle is the founding President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an award-winning western Canadian-based public policy think tank. Since its founding in 1997, Frontier has brought a distinctive and influential Prairie voice to regional and national debates over public policy in areas such as core public sector reform, housing, poverty, aboriginals, consumer-focused health care performance, equalization, rural policy and much more. Of the nearly 100 recognized think tanks in Canada, Frontier is one of only 5 to make the 2008 global “Go-To Think Tanks” list published by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
Mr. Holle has worked extensively with public sector reform and has provided advisory services to various governments across Canada and the United States. His publications have appeared in various newspapers and journals including dozens of newspapers, the National Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a member of various organizations including the Mont Pelerin Society, an international organization of classical liberals.
Research by Peter Holle
Former Premier Peckford vs Pandemic Narrative: Solutions (Part 2 of 3)
The pandemic response has been misguided and contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, says former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford. The sole living First Minister from the constitutional negotiations in 1981-82 believes lockdowns and vaccine passports were...
Former Premier Peckford vs Pandemic Narrative: Peckford Opposes Pandemic Policy (Part 1 of 3)
Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford says pandemic responses by governments and medical authorities are unconstitutional and misguided and disregard relevant facts and research. Peckford, premier from 1979 to 1989 is the last living First Minister present for...
Longer Days Are Coming! Cheaper Solar Power, Not So Much.
Wind and solar power, we are always told, are really cheaper than fossil-fuel power, if you tot up the true costs of using each type. These arguments have always been dubious on their merits, if not outright disingenuous. Yes, the wind is free and the sunshine is...
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‘Side Issues’ Result in Much Higher Costs to Our Health and Social Systems
As we enter the year 2022, most Canadians will have lived their entire lives under the shibboleth that says we have the best health-care system in the world. Our beloved medicare is universal in scope, free of charge and offers equal access to all. What country could...
Touted Climate Emergency for Calgary is Deceitful and Undemocratic
Calgary has sworn in its first female mayor. A week earlier, less than 24 hours after winning the mayoral race, she gave her first post-election talk-radio interview to Ryan Jespersen, mostly involving a series of softball questions. He asked her the obligatory woke...
Happy Birthday, Sir Roger
It’s time to celebrate Sir Roger for his courage and pragmatic, if dramatic, policy leadership. “I don’t put labels on anything,” is a clue to why he was able to dance across the political spectrum and trample stereotypical expectations.
Competitive Tendering Saves Winnipeg 40%
What happens when a municipal service delivered by an in-house monopoly is exposed to competition?
Drug Dealers and Global Warming – Parallel Parables?
People respond to incentives – we compare incentives of climate change information providers and the actors in an infamous Mexican parable.
Poverty Policies Tend to Impoverish
The poor suffer the most collateral damage when policy is designed for the few, not the many.
Rescuing Lake Winnipeg with Better Public Policy
How banning grey water septic fields produced more raw sewage spills in cottage country.
A Seinfeld Election
Manitoba’s 2007 election is skating around the province’s key challenge, it is an election about nothing.
Our Green Dilettantes
No politician is willing to let Manitoba Hydro achieve its full value as an economic driver. How long will other provinces foot the bill for subsidized prices that turn the province into a fiscal beggar?
Where Manitoba Stands in 2007
Manitoba’s 2007 election campaign could have been a chapter in Alice in Wonderland. While the province’s economy continues to slide, politicians are not discussing either the reasons for the slide or solutions to it.
Mafia Welfare
The disincentive problems with Italy’s equalization programs resemble our own, but with a few special twists thrown in by the Mafia and poor southerners lulled into indolence.