Last year’s Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s annual Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index reported that Canada had improved its score in four of five measured categories, including patient rights, wait times, outcomes and range and reach of services, though we still have “a long way to go to catch up to Europe’s top performers,” not least because we run one of the most expensive systems in the world.
Media Appearances
Nenshi Wants Taxi Study Launched: Mayor reacts to complaints
Less than two years after a wide-ranging review of Calgary’s taxi bylaw, Mayor Naheed Nenshi wants city council to launch a major study on how to reshape the city’s cab and limousine industry.
From Greenpeace to Business, He is Making Waves
A co-founder and former member of Greenpeace, Moore is now the co-founder and chair of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd., a firm in B.C. focused on helping companies develop communication around sustainability. Moore says only now is the world starting to understand what being sustainable means.
Shift Health-Care Attitudes
Surveys show health care as the major concern of Canadians, but as yet we hear no remedial steps offered by Stephen Harper or Michael Ignatieff.
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How the Prairie Provinces Can Benefit from an Improved Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was one of the world’s most ambitious trade deals. The agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States was signed on February 4, 2016. Its goal was...
Social Conflict Abridged: From Unperceived Injuries to Claiming—What is Conflict?
Societies today are in a state of flux influenced by myriad factors—globalization versus nationalism, liberalization versus traditional values, and immigration versus closed borders. Some people perceive that an injustice has been committed against them while others...
Report Analysis Suggests Ways to Improve First Nation Outcomes
The Centre’s background paper, Indigenous Peoples from an International Perspective: How is Canada Faring? and written by Joseph Quesnel, used the report’s results to determine how First Nations in Canada could do better.
Too Big A Bite
“Our comparison makes it abundantly clear that we can best express the sincerity of our intentions to help the poor by expanding the value of their basic exemption from income taxes. … In fact, the numbers show that increased exemptions work spectacularly better than minimum wages or tax credits in meeting the goal of improved incomes.”
Canadian Health Policy Lacks Modern Plan
The Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index was released in January by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Winnipeg-based think-tank. The index ranked Canada 23rd out of 30 countries overall.
Computer Labs Under Scrutiny
An article in the Vancouver Island News Group touches on computers in schools.
Computers Are Just A Tool
An article in the Kamloops Daily News touches on computers in schools.
Reading, Writing, Word Processing
An article in the Ottawa Citizen touches on computers in schools.
Majority of Manitoba First Nations Receive Failing Grade
The results of the 2007 second annual governance survey of Manitoba First Nations completed by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy—a Manitoba based think-tank—are in and are not flattering,
Anonymity Allows Hospitals to Avoid Responsibility
The Fraser Institute’s new hospital report card does not contain information identifying the results from specific facilities.
Computer Use May Not Help Students
Filling classrooms with computers does not seem to be making students any smarter and may actually be harming the education of younger children, a new report suggests.