The federal government has boxed itself into a corner in its attempts to square the process for reviewing and approving large mining, pipeline or other projects with the private sector’s desire to have any such process be clear, simple, relatively …
Workplace Regulations Don’t Help Workers
A main priority of Alberta’s United Conservative government, given the province’s relatively high unemployment rate over the past few years, is job creation. It’s right there in the Alberta Premier’s two-line Twitter biography: “Premier of Alberta. Focused on getting Alberta …
A Modest Proposal
In 1970, Pierre Eliot Trudeau’s administration decided to cut diplomatic ties with one government claiming to rule China and to recognize another. Out went our acceptance of a long-time ally, the quasi-democratic Republic of China, based on the island of …
Agenda to Make Canada More Competitive, Productive, and Raise Its Standard of Living
There has been a lot of concern and digital ink spilled over the slow increase in living standards of the average, or ‘median’, Canadian over the past ten, twenty, thirty, forty or more years. In the long run, economists say …
eZine: Ideas that change your world (Quarterly) Issue 1
Frontier Centre for Public Policy is proud to release its new premier quarterly magazine Ideas that change your world is our premier quarterly magazine delivering to you some of Frontier’s latest thought-provoking, eye-opening, and captivating content from the past 90 days in one …
Old-School Stats Neglect Digital Economy
The ubiquitous use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), along with its per capita derivative, means we often get away with writing the abbreviation alone. Yet this widespread social proof offers a false sense of accuracy for a fragile measurement overdue …
Alberta’s $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Help Workers
During the recent Alberta election campaign, with the province’s unemployment rate remaining stubbornly high relative to the rest of Canada with the exception of the Atlantic provinces, the now-governing United Conservative Party proposed reducing the minimum wage from $15 to …