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.”
Media Appearances
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.
Featured News
To Infinity and Beyond
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
Global Minimum Tax Is Cartel Scam with Loopholes
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
City Stacks up Poorly on Tax Front
City residents pay higher taxes than most Ontarians, but City Hall spends less on recreation, culture and services than their municipal partners. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy released its annual report card for Canadian cities, ranking the relative financial...
City Taxes Top Norm: Study
Barrie homeowners, businesses and industries were collectively taxed 41 per cent more than the Ontario average last year, says a recent think-tank study. And the reason is this city spends 76 per cent more on basic municipal services -- such as water, sewer and roads...
Calgary Taxpayers Bear Heavier Burden
Calgary's total tax burden per capita last year was almost a third higher than the average Prairie city, according to a new report released by a right-leaning think-tank. The report by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy drew swift criticism from aldermen on both...
Expert Touts Private Care
Countries such as Australia, New Zealand and France have private health-care businesses that run alongside the public health-care sector, which is what Chaoulli has been lobbying the provincial and federal governments to consider since 1992
Bloc’s the Big Winner in Election Financing
In a bit of political perversity, it turns out Canadians are bending over backwards to provide financial sustenance to the Bloc Quebecois.
Once Again, Canadian Taxpayers Bankroll Quebec’s Separatists
The shocker here is the Bloc Québécois, which received almost 12 times as much public financing as private financing in the 2007-2008 period. No other party even reaches the 3:1 level.
Water is the Big Issue Many Politicians Ignore
You get a sense of Canada's critical water problems looking at the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield south of Jasper, Alta. It is shrivelling, like a grape in sunlight. The glacier's retreat is just another indication that our climate is changing and getting...
Voice For The Poor Supports Oilsands
Artificially high energy prices, the work of politicians manipulated by radical environmentalists demonizing energies they don’t like, are therefore “immoral,” and a “de facto regressive tax on the poor. . . . They destroy jobs, erode civil rights gains and force minority and elderly households to choose between food, fuel and medicine.”
U.S. Group Warns Against Carbon Tax
“People of Canada are going to look at the proposals dealing with this economic crisis, such as the carbon tax and the negative impact it can have on an already tenuous economy, and make a decision for what they want their future to be.”