"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” - Winston Churchill Background On January 9, 2000, then-President Jamil Mahuad announced the official adoption of the monetary system of dollarization, having unleashed a spontaneous process. In January...
In a recent Globe and Mail article, two lawyers, one a Toronto law professor and the other an Indigenous member of the Indigenous Bar Association, advanced the benignly racist argument that Canada should appoint a Supreme Court Justice on the basis of his or her...
“Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity, where some people are held liable for things that happened before they were born, while others are not held responsible for things they are themselves doing today?” - Thomas Sowell Canadians reacted with horror to the...
There have been thousands of cases of unprovoked firearm attacks in the United States over the past ten years and countless more prior to that. Senseless shootings at schools, places of worship, shopping malls, workplaces and hospitals. And there has been an endless...
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
The April 1982 Saskatchewan election proved to be a major turning point in the province's history. Over its nine years in office, the Devine government commenced and completed numerous policy initiatives in spite of considerable challenges including two recessions. ...
Ron Penney and David Vardy examine the risks associated with the planned Muskrat Falls hydroelectric mega-project in Atlantic Canada.
Ron Penney and David Vardy examine the risks associated with the planned Muskrat Falls hydroelectric mega-project in Atlantic Canada.
To implement limited government ideas in Manitoba the province’s chronic pragmatism and unique political geography must be understood.
Adopting smaller government policies in Saskatchewan is an interesting affair as the NDP government laid the groundwork, but the record of the current Saskatchewan Party government is mixed. The optimistic view is the party is adopting a long-term, incremental approach.
Humanity’s ability to create perfect world has limits.
The Frontier Centre compares Germany’s post office, Deutsche Poste and Canada Post in its latest Policy Series Study (13 pages).
The income tax structure has been an area of relatively little public policy debate for most of the previous century. It has been widely accepted that having a hierarchy of tax rates wherein higher levels of personal income result in higher percentage tax rates is a...
“We should celebrate free enterprise and entrepreneurship. We should adopt policies that encourage innovation and competition. We should move away from tired old state monopolies and introduce new ways to deliver our social services.”
One Canadian study, indicates that 70 per cent of the money that people and governments spend on wood pellet heat stays within the region – compared with 10 per cent of the money they spend on oil heat.