Enact a ban on distracting behaviours behind the wheel — cellphones, makeup, eating, etc. — and you’ll create a safe-driving utopia. Simple as that, right? Not so fast. While proponents would like to suggest that a law will simply change behaviours, the reality is far different.
Media Appearances
Real Road Danger: Discreet Texting
A new study calls into question the efficacy of distracted driving laws that ban the use of cellphones while driving. The report, released Friday by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, provides further evidence that, not only are distracted driving laws ineffective, they might actually be doing more harm than good.
Traffic congestion: Metro Vancouver second worst in North America for local travel: City stalled in livability lane, says columnist Jon Ferry
Vancouver may no longer be eligible for inclusion among the world’s top 10 best places to live. But it can claim one distinction: It has the worst traffic congestion in Canada — and the second worst in North America, with only car-mad Los Angeles leaving it in its rear mirror.
Too Many Attawapiskats
It is a good time to take stock of the special challenges facing Canada’s aboriginal population – including deficits in education, job opportunities and standard of living compared to non-aboriginal populations.
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Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
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...
Leaders on the Frontier | So Much More We Can Be with the Hon. Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan 1982-1991
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. ...
How Schools Fail Kids by Not Failing Them
On December 4, 2010 Michael Zwaagstra delivered his key points as to why public schools are failing to properly prepare today’s students for the real world to the attendees of the Society for Quality Education‘s (SQE) annual general meeting in downtown Toronto, mostly because, he argues, that schools refuse to fail students.
Better It Come From Here Than There
“With a mischievous half-grin on his face, Ezra Levant muses about getting the U.S. to extend the “country of origin labelling” law that’s been applied to Canadian beef to our gasoline, too.”
Reserves Are Part Of The Problem
“When it comes to aboriginal affairs, it’s too bad that many of the ideas meant to improve the lives of ordinary natives never see the light of day. The best suggestion I’ve seen all year is the proposal by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy that non-viable reserves be relocated closer to urban centres — and jobs.”
Report Pans ‘Stealth Equalization’;: Analysis Think-tank says fed jobs in New Brunswick, other provinces amount to additional transfer of money from Ottawa
“With the third-largest per-capita concentration of federal government jobs in Canada, New Brunswick is a “have-not” province that’s dependent on a hidden system of “stealth equalization” from Ottawa, says a new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.”
Bureaucracies Stealth’ Subsidize Have-Not Provinces: Study
“Canada’s rich westernmost provinces are footing the bill for more than $2-billion annually in “stealth” economic subsidies to the country’s poorest provinces – above and beyond the $14-billion in official federal equalization, according to a study released Monday by a leading Canadian think- tank.”
Ottawa’s Payroll Secretly Skewed Against Ontario;: Public servants abound in Maritimes, Manitoba
“The federal public service has become a “stealth equalization” program that overwhelmingly favours the Maritimes and Manitoba at the expense of Ontario and the rest of Canada, a new study shows.”
Landing Rights Dispute With UAE May Force ‘Open Skies’ Debate
“Canada’s dispute with the United Arab Emirates over airline landing rights lifts a curtain on a dispute between Ottawa and Western premiers over Canadian airline policy.”
‘Honour Killings’ May Be Added To Criminal Code
“The federal government on Monday affirmed its zero-tolerance stance against “honour killing,” declaring such “barbaric cultural practices” as “heinous abuses” that have no place in Canadian society.”
Testing Still Valuable
Standardized tests are supposed to measure, in a fair and consistent way, what students have learned. But how do we know what these students have learned? The tests are supposed to measure the effectiveness of teaching strategies. We don’t know how effective the teaching in these classes was. The tests are supposed to tell the public, which pays for schools, how those schools are performing. Frontier Centre in the media, from The Windsor Star.