The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Inter-municipal co-operation and reform: Municipal Amalgamations. This paper is co-authored by Wendell Cox and Ailin He. Wendell Cox is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the principal...
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Why Young Canadians Can’t Afford To Buy a Home
Canada’s middle-income housing affordability crisis (unaffordable homes) is drawing considerable attention, with good reason. Families are being squeezed out of the market and the situation is only going to worsen. Frontier Centre publications, such as the Demographia...
Ontario’s Labor & Housing Policies: US Midwest Opportunities?
The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper, reports concerns raised by Magna International, Inc. that proposed provincial labor legislation (the “Fair Workplaces Better Jobs Act”) could result in seriously reduced economic competitiveness for Ontario, Canada’s...
Moving Away From Toronto and Montréal
The latest Statistics Canada data indicates that people are leaving Toronto and Montréal in large numbers since the 2011 census. Even so, both metropolitan areas continued to grow through the 2016 census as a result of net international migration and the natural...
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
We’ve Got Pension Tension
Will government-funded plans be there when we need ’em? Many of us don’t think so . . .
A Great, Cheap Place to Live
Regina — identified in a new study as one of the cheapest places in the world to own a home — may be headed for a boom in the near future, should housing prices continue to soar in other Canadian cities, predicts a senior fellow at the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre...
3rd Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
The 3rd Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey expands coverage to 159 major markets in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
We’re One CHEAP City
For the second year in a row, Winnipeg was ranked among the most affordable places to live in an international study. Regina is considered the most affordable city in Canada, with Winnipeg and Quebec City tied in second place.
World Watch and the Irrelevance of Sprawl
World Watch is out with another “sky is falling” report, bringing hope to the “half empty” elites who depend upon apocalyptic tales.
The American Dream: For 300 Million
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Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway: Disaster by Design
Executive Summary Winnipeg is the only major urban area in the developed world without freeways. Although they are unpopular with some urban planners, freeways not only reduce congestion and pollution, they make cities more efficient in economic terms. In its current...
Winnipeg: Streamline Housing Approvals
Restrictive land-use policies are reducing Winnipeg’s significant advantage in home affordability.
A Chinese Lesson for Western Economists
Wei Jie points out that income inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient may worsen as incomes at the lowest levels are increasing — at the same time as the poor are getting richer