Europe’s failing green energy model has enriched a green elite while plunging millions into fuel poverty.
Media Appearances
Speaker Argues Against Compact Cities
Participants at a housing innovation and infrastructure forum heard a defence of detached housing and against compact cities. Wendell Cox, an international public policy consultant specializing in urban policy, transport and demographics, told the audience at the forum cities that have urban containment policies push up housing prices and make them less affordable.
Borough Takes Over Sidewalk Repairs
This year, the borough decided to take the crumbling sidewalks into its own hands. On Wednesday, it declared it would be the first in the city to hand over all responsibility for sidewalk repairs to its blue-collar workers as part of a pilot project that could spread to other services. At an estimated $300,000, the expenditure is a drop in the bucket of the borough’s overall $66-million budget.
Alberta Workers Taste Reality
Wages once virtually on par with the rest of the country became higher across all public-sector categories, in some cases substantially so, according to the study by Ben Eisen and Ken Boessenkool. (The province’s 36,000 teachers are paid 20 per cent higher than their typical counterparts elsewhere in the country, according to a recent Statistics Canada study.) Alberta’s public- sector salaries consumed nearly 95 per cent of the increase in provincial revenues over the decade analyzed.
Featured News
Leon Fontaine – A Passionate Canadian Thought Leader – RIP
This past weekend, we learned of the tragic and unexpected passing of Pastor Leon Fontaine at 59 years of age. Leon was a gifted leader playing many roles both nationally and internationally. He was, with his wife Sally, the senior Pastors at Springs Church with...
Public Inquiries and Public Trust
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
Freedom Shouldn’t Come with Caveats, but it Does
In Saturday’s National Post, my esteemed colleague, George Jonas, made the compelling case for why university attendees should not be compelled to join student unions. He would, of course, dispute the use of the word case, because the idea that people should not be forced to join involuntary organizations would seem to be self-evident in a free society.
Why not Supply Management for Automobiles?: In fact Canada’s whole economy could be run by bureaucrats, writes Michael Hart. Wait, that sounds a lot like the Soviet Union
Recently, Canada’s Dairy Lobby has been singing the praises of “supply management” – a sys-tem that limits production and inflates prices in an at-tempt to bring stability to the milk market.
Citizens Can’t Wait for Transparency
According to Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Claude Williams, “There is no fixed timeline for municipalities to be brought under the Right to Information and Access to Privacy Act.” Apparently the provincial government has been consulting with municipalities about an appropriate timeline.
Freedom of Association Shouldn’t Come with Caveats
A press release by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy caught my eye this week. The respected western Canadian think-tank was offering its clients “the case for ending compulsory membership in student unions in Canada’s universities and colleges.”
No to Mandatory Student Unions
A new study released today by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP), a think tank based in the Prairie provinces, criticizes student unions in general and especially the practice of “mandatory student unionism.”
How Do We Assess Kids Without Tests?
Alberta has the most comprehensive standardized testing in Canada. Our students also consistently outperform pupils in other provinces on international achievement tests. Yet Alberta Premier Alison Redford wants to ditch provincial achievement tests (PATs) for Grade 3 and 6 students.
Climate Change ‘Skeptic’ Concludes World is Warming: Global warming study partly funded by owner of Manitoba fertilizer plant
A physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and self-described global warming “skeptic” has just completed a major global temperature study, concluding that the world has been warming by 1 C since the mid-1950s.
Deliver Us From the Universities
Are Canadian universities a threat to free speech? If you ask me, yes, and if you ask civil rights lawyer John Carpay, he’ll go even further. Carpay has ranked universities so that you can see which one is a bigger threat than the other.
Think-Tanks Wielding More Clout in Politics: Organizations such as the right-leaning Manning Centre, nascent Broadbent Institute increasingly part of the ‘political infrastructure’
When Canadians think of political parties, they focus on the teams of politicians fronting them. But behind the scenes, Canadian political parties are increasingly getting support from a “political infrastructure” that plays a crucial role in selling their ideology to the public.