Frontier Centre in the media from the National Post.
Media Appearances
Chiefs Don’t Offer Protection: Poll
Frontier Centre in the media from the Winnipeg Free Press.
European-style bailouts in Canada?: Quebec and Ontario’s debts add up to trouble for nation
Frontier Centre in the media from the Calgary Herald.
Mayor Responds to Tax Report: Farbridge asks staff to review report that Guelph residents pay some of the highest property taxes
“Council is entering the 2011 budget planning process. This presents a great opportunity to review the findings of the report and ensure we provide good information in advance of budget setting to Council and the community.”
Featured News
Strike Before the Crumble
COVID-19 has left a gaping hole in Quebec’s healthcare system. Lack of nursing personnel, testing shortages, overflooding hospitals and postponed surgeries have turned Quebec’s healthcare into complete chaos. "We must invest in the health-care system, which is in the...
Let a Thousand Capital Markets Bloom
Alarm bells ought to be ringing in Canada. Business, industrial and foreign direct investment have performed pitifully over the past decade, with no reason to believe there will be a turnaround any time soon. As noted by Steven Globerman of Western Washington...
Rolf Penner responds to CWB Chair’s column
Following is the viewpoint of the writer, chair of the Canadian Wheat Board’s board of directors that was published in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Rolf Penner's response is in bold text. Rolf Penner, the author of Wheat board’s price premium simply a myth (SP, July...
CWB Disparities
Re: "The case rests on shaky math," Rolf Penner, Opinion, July 3. Rolf Penner makes a price comparison between wheat at Bottineau, N.D. and Boissevain, Manitoba. While this analysis is a worthwhile exercise, it does not provide the foundation to support Penner's...
Wheat Board Accused of Costing Farmers Millions in Lost Revenue
A report from a conservative think-tank says the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk marketing system is costing prairie farmers hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost revenue.
Board Costs Farmers $1 a Bushel: Report
A new report analyzing the value that the Canadian Wheat Board insists it delivers to Prairie farmers offers “instant absolute proof” to the contrary, says its author. Far from maximizing returns back to producers, the board is actually leaving an “astounding” amount...
Manitoba Fine with Status Quo
Doer majority comes despite economic malaise
Native Writer Slams ‘Indian industry’
The best way to kill a man is to pay him for doing nothing.
Fend for Yourselves, Aboriginals Told
Author says natives must overcome reliance on government support
Maoris Bring Perspectives on Youth Issues, Gangs
Here is coverage of event sponsored by the Frontier Centre - unfortunately the paper ommitted who the sponsor was. Online reviews of novelist and newspaper columnist Alan Duff’s work point out that his “somewhat simplistic message has proved highly controversial.”...
Maori Speakers Tour Canada
Allan Duff and Henare O’Keefe traveled from Vancouver to Halifax in May and the two Maori men made several stops along the way. The trip was sponsored by the Winnipeg based Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP). Duff continually bashed away at the Maori leadership...