The second year of the Frontier Centre’s Aboriginal Governance Index ranks governance on 51 Manitoba First Nations and 61 in Saskatchewan based on personal interviews and surveys with band residents by Frontier’s Aboriginal Policy Fellow, Don Sandberg.
Rebecca Walberg
Canada’s Healthcare System Compares Poorly with Europe
The index is undeniable proof that Canada has much to improve upon. The Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index, the first attempt to compare Canada with Europe in terms of meeting the needs of health-care consumers, shows that we do a mediocre job of fulfilling our commitment to excellent and accessible health care.
Canadian Health Care System Lags Behind Europe, Says Study
Canada ranks 23rd out of 30 countries surveyed in the "consumer friendliness'' of its health care system, says a new report compiled by European and Canadian researchers. The study undertaken by a pair of private think tanks - the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for...
Human Rights Commissions’ Time has Passed
After hard won battles against real discrimination, Human Rights Commissions have become ironically repressive.
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Give Patients Info on Quality
Safety, or the lack of it, is a growing problem in Canadian healthcare, and both consumers and providers would benefit from a healthy dose of information about the problem.
Charitable Giving In Canada
The claim that taxes might come down if Canadians increased private donations has it backwards. We can’t give more because we’re not left with enough disposable income to do that.
Aboriginal Governance Index – 2006-2007
How well are Manitoba’s First Nations governed? A groundbreaking Index ranks them according to what their own people think.
Do We Still Need Human Rights Commissions?
A Calgary imam’s claims of journalistic hatred should be dismissed;
these agencies were not intended for shutting down a free press.
Crunchy Con a Hybrid Politico
AS a writer for the right-wing U.S. journal National Review, Rod Dreher had conservative credentials that should have been impeccable. But when his colleagues raised eyebrows at his penchant for organic vegetables and his family's choice to home school, Dreher was...
A generation in debt, with no way out
Education is supposed to be the ticket to prosperity, but young people find themselves saddled with debt, not only personal but generational.
Healthcare Problems We Share
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System, by John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler, AEI Press, 139 pages,$18 No politician campaigning in January’s federal election would have dared to recommend that Canada adopt...