Airbus’ cancellation (February 14) of the four engine, wide-body A380 jumbo jet ends the troubled life of a plane that always was too big and out of sync with changing market realities. Little more than 11 years after its October 2007 maiden commercial flight by...
Wendell Cox
Frontier Senior Fellow Wendell Cox discusses the 15th Demographia International Housing Affordability Index with Geoff Currier on CJOB Winnipeg. Exploring why houses are more or less expensive in different Canadian markets. (14 minutes)
15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
CANADA, January 21, 2019 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released the 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. The survey is prepared by Wendell Cox of Demographia (USA) and a Senior Fellow at Frontier Centre and co-authored...
Canadian Families Denied Preferred Detached Houses, Forced into Condos: Survey
A new poll by Sotheby’s International Realty suggests substantial disappointment among Canada’s young urban families, unable to afford to purchase the types of houses that they prefer. The poll determined that young urban households in Canada strongly prefer detached...
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Medical Martial Law – Never Again
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8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
The Frontier Centre releases a survey of 325 housing markets in seven countries including 35 from Canada. Vancouver is now the second least affordable housing market in the English speaking world, with the Prairies improving and Toronto continuning a long term trend of declining affordability.
Smart Growth Hurts the Urban Poor: Urban planners hurting the home owning dream
The idea of containing urban populations through Smart Growth strategies has typically sent housing prices soaring and has hurt those least able to afford buying a house of their own, the urban poor.
Telecommuting and Working at Home in the Emerging Work Environment: The Benefits of Working at Home
Wendell Cox documents the rise of telecommuting and working from home in Canada.
Reducing Commute Times Requires Strategies that Work: More public transit won’t reduce commute times
Governments should work to reduce commute times, but not necessarily by increasing spending on public transit.
Transportation in Toronto and Beyond: From Ideology to Reality
How long it takes for people to get to work is a more important measure to guide and improve urban transportation policy than the means by which one does, whether it is on foot, by bicycle, by bus, by train, or by car.
Brookings Economist Decries Transit Subsidies, Calls For Privatization
In his new book, Last Exit: Privatization and Deregulation of the U.S. Transportation System, Brookings Institution economist Clifford Winston contends that transit subsidies are largely the result of labor productivity losses, inefficient operations and counterproductive federal regulations.
High-Speed Rail, Budget Buster: Virtually everywhere it has been constructed, taxpayers have lost out
If the nation is going to reduce its out-of-control spending, the first step is to stop spending money on things we do not need. Despite President Obama’s call in his State of the Union speech for linking 80 percent of the nation by high-speed rail, it is hard to imagine a more unnecessary program.
7th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
The latest edition of the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey puts Canadian housing affordability in perspective amongst 325 housing markets world wide.
Decade of the Telecommute
“The rise in telecommuting is the unmistakable message of the just released 2009 American Community Survey data. The technical term is working at home, however the strong growth in this market is likely driven by telecommuting, as people use information technology and communications technology to perform jobs that used to require being in the office.”