Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Shawn Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, federal and First Nations officials will meet here to discuss aboriginal education, governance and economic development. The meeting may have some success because Harper and Atleo are so similar. They both remind me (and I mean this as a compliment) of guys in my high school chess club. They are intelligent, quiet-spoken and can think strategically. They don’t blather a lot about what their next moves are going to be.
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Big-Spending Alberta Irks Both Neighbours
Alberta government-approved wage rates, benefit packages and fee schedules are routinely cited by B.C. public sector workers in seeking catch-up increases in their contract bargaining.
Honour Killings in Canada: An Undeniable Reality!
Wherever there is a bubble of ignorance, I am there to burst it. Canada, a lovely country known for its open-hearted acceptance of immigrants from a vast array of foreign lands, is quickly becoming a cesspool in which cultures are clashing. These clashes are usually swept under the rug by the host country (Canada) and those who are integrating (at varying degrees) in to the host country.
Public Sector Wages Sap Alberta’s Revenues
Alberta’s public sector wage bill has increased nearly twice as fast as the national aver-age over the past decade, according to a new University of Calgary study.
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Supply Chain Strains Could Cause Shortages and Hoarding
Supply chain problems, both international and domestic, could create shortages and hoarding, and make recent inflationary pressures even worse. Although problems with our ports and railways may beg policy solutions, the short-term response of everyday Canadians should...
New Book: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
CALGARY, AB, December 17, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis written by Susan Martinuk. Susan is an accomplished, nationally recognized researcher and writer who has...
Administrators’ wages are cause for concern
“Frontier Centre released a report recently fingering Manitoba’s provincial government as having a larger and more expensive public sector than most other provinces. The report looked at the number of administrators per 100,000 population, and compared their average salary levels to those of other administrators in the province.”
Free Market Parking From Canada
“In Canada, at least, there is such a thing as a free market think tank with a free market perspective on parking policy.”
Climate Fears Based on Lies, Calgary Told
“As far as Lord Christopher Monckton is concerned, the debate on global warming is over as the science linking rising CO2 levels to calamitous environmental consequences is fatally flawed.”
Expert Calls Expropriation Legislation Vague
“The problem with the legislation is shown by the difficulty of what we’re discussing,” he said. “It’s so broad a concept it can be used to argue for basically anything and that’s what’s happening.”
Proposed Flat Tax Questioned
The current system of “progressive” taxation, where a range of rates means that higher levels of income result in higher percentage tax rates, may not be worthwhile or effective, contends David Seymour, director of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s Saskatchewan office, in a paper released Monday.
Want To Know Why Professors Don’t Teach?
Over the past five decades, the “productivity” of scholars in the fields of languages and literature has increased from approximately 13,000 publications to 72,000 a year. Who reads them? For the most part, hardly anyone.
You Can No Longer Fail in School
“Zwaagstra has been writing educational papers for years, but this one (An ‘F’ for Social Promotion) is making some serious waves, and deserves the national attention it’s getting. That’s because it’s a wake up call to snap us out of drunken delusions our education system has allowed to become common practice.”
Failing grades?
“Clearly social promotion (failing students) undermines the meaning and value of a high school diploma by sending the message that mastering academic standards is not required for high school graduation.”
Private Health: Our Third Rail
Surveys regularly find that the majority of Canadians are just fine with private insurance, and private hospitals, provided everyone is guaranteed access to health care when they need it.