The Frontier Centre has released the first Canadian Property Rights Index. The March 14th report, written by Joseph Quesnel, was fashioned along the same basis as a U.S. property rights index, rating how each of the 13 jurisdictions in Canada handled property rights.
Media Appearances
With Budget Crunch Coming, Should Province Spin Off ATB?
A recent study published by the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a right-leaning think-tank, asserts that potential proceeds from a sale of ATB could be as high as $3 billion. The 16-page study, prepared by Surrey, British Columbia-based financial analyst Ian Madsen, assesses ATB’s value by using two different methodologies.
Health-Care Funding Promises Ignore Reality: Province should look abroad to find innovative solutions that work
In her “A GP for Me” plan, Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid is promising an extra $100 million for 176,000 new patients. That works out to $568 per year per new patient, which would pay for a simple GP office visit about every three weeks for an average patient, one per month for the frail, or one visit every six weeks for complex or pregnant patients.
Author and Activist Speaks Out Against Honour Killings
Aruna Papp spent the past three decades devoted to helping Southeast Asian women in Canada and serves as research associate with the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy. She is also an outspoken advocate for women from cultures that devalue females and she is most appalled at the murders of females at the hands of their fathers and brothers.
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
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Medical Martial Law – Never Again
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Man Battles School Division to Have Boy Held Back a Grade
A Manitoba man believes a boy is behind in school because of a no-fail policy. But, some experts said failing a student can have drastic consequences.
Ineffective Health System Needs Hard Questions
While questions about curbing the unsustainable growth in health-care costs, setting health outcome goals, establishing disease prevention policies and improving treatment quality and patient safety sound tough, is the health-care system in Canada and Saskatchewan really that bad?
Is the City Making the Grade When it Comes to Transparency?
Today’s column, as was last week’s, is in response to an article in this newspaper last week that read, in part: “City staff is fending off criticisms that it refused to disclose records on public spending, saying the municipality has made great strides to give the public access to government reports and budgets.”
New Math is Failing our Students: Teaching techniques leave students without a solid foundation
Parents taking a gander at their kid’s math textbook and wondering what the heck they’re looking at may want to check out a recent study from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, based in Winnipeg.
A ‘Market’ Solution to the Rent Crisis
The Manitoba experience, and recent studies by the Frontier Centre and the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce highlight how rent control is a superficial approach to a substantial challenge.
Canadian Schools’ Math Skills Don’t Add Up
Canada’s public schools are doing a poor job of teaching basic math skills and shortchanging a generation of children, says a study by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
How to Get Young People to Vote
If you know a young person that isn’t likely to vote in the upcoming provincial election, show them this column — it should get them motivated. You see, there’s a big financial iceberg headed toward our province and young people are going to get the shaft unless we change course now.
Cuts, Not Tax Hikes, the Way to go
The author of a study applauding the Canadian government’s approach to reaching fiscal balance in the 1990s says jurisdictions such as New Brunswick should take note and balance the books without major tax hikes.
Post-Monopoly CWB has Tough Job
With the clock ticking on the introduction of legislation that will end the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on marketing wheat and barley, it’s becoming increasingly clear that whatever form a successor organization takes, it will have a tough go of it.