New population estimates by census authorities in Canada (Statistics Canada) and the United States (Bureau of the Census) show that cities (municipalities) with the largest central business districts lost residents in the year ended July 1, 2021. Currently data is...
In the last 40 years our debt has mushroomed 10 times. We are now into the trillions regarding federal debt. 1981-2 our federal debt was $107 billion. 2021—our federal debt is over $1,000,000,000,000. Depending on how you measure ranging from $1.2 trillion to $1.8...
Statistics Canada reports that remote work reached a pandemic era recently. “Since the onset of the pandemic, the Labour Force Survey has been tracking the proportion of non-absent workers who worked from home. During the week of January 9 to 15, more than 4 in 10...
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation. -James Madison
“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
Environmentalist organizations are spreading misinformation about genetically modified crops, despite their obvious health benefits in many developing countries.
The Fraser Institute has come out in favour of dropping the remaining foreign ownership restrictions in the telecom industry as the way to solve our current policy issues in the wireless sector. Reducing and eventually eliminating the foreign ownership restrictions is...
Your pet is causing global warming In this morning's Winnipeg Free Press: Fido's Footprint - Pets are a growing part of the climate change conundrum
While the governing Conservatives have passes historic legislation that will advance First Nations communities, an upcoming parliamentary prorogation will kill a long awaited First Nations elections bill.
Canadian policy makers should re-think green energy policies because new evidence points to the failure of renewable energy policies in Europe.
The former Dean of Engineering of the Province of Manitoba recently aptly classified the Clean Environment Commission as a lapdog of government, while the Public Utilities Board prepares to hold a government-restricted and ordered review of part of a Manitoba Hydro's...
A new column by the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) shows how politics is preventing water from reaching communities in southern California that desperately need it. In short, the column promotes water markets and pricing as superior to politics when...
University of Waterloo economist Anindya Sen recently published a study which tells us what everyone but the Ontario government already knows: the legally protected Beer Store monopoly is overcharging consumers. That is what monopolists do, after all.
The Manitoba government tabled a series of amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act in May that have yet to come up for a vote in the legislature. Among many other things, Bill 40 would make it easier for landlords to evict tenants who are acting unlawfully.