Source: Edmonton Journal, Wednesday, May 12 2010 Equalization and climate change policy are two areas of increasing federal-provincial tension. Albertans want their province to play a leadership role in finding solutions. Albertans are generous. I believe...
Media Appearances
We Pay For World-Leading Care But Don’t Get It;: Public policy centre’s survey of health outcomes suggests Canadians aren’t getting the best value for their medical dollars
“The survey, done for the third year running by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, spurns the usual measures of health care — money spent and resources available.”
European Health Care Bests Canada: Expert
“Health Consumer Powerhouse and Frontier Centre for Public Policy recently released a report outlining how Canada’s health-care system matches up to European systems.”
Media Release – Money for Nothing and Your Cheques for Free: Industry Canada’s Corporate Welfare Repayment Records
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a study that shows Industry Canada has paid out $18 billion in corporate welfare since 1982—and collected back only $1.9 billion.
Featured News
Canada’s Best Doctors Suffer the COVID-19 Inquisition
Some of Canada's best doctors have suffered undue trouble for sharing their concerns with lockdowns, masks, social distancing and COVID-19 vaccines. Authorities in the medical profession have treated these physicians like apparent heretics under the threat of...
Inflation and the Collective Debt: Consequences of COVID-19 Measures
The economic consequences of COVID-19 and the shutdown of the economy are difficult to evaluate. But some of them have begun to appear and risk hindering recovery. Inflation is one of these harmful consequences. In the USA, consumer prices jumped 4.2 per cent in the...
Earth is Cooling, not Warming, Climatologist Says
GLOBAL warming isn’t a threat to Canada’s farm belt because scientists who say the Earth is warming are wrong, says former University of Manitoba climatologist Tim Ball.
Left Punch on Russell Means
Winnipeg’s favourite left wing columnist discusses the revolutionary thinking of Russell Means, America’s most famous Indian.
Public health care cheaper say analysts
University of Toronto newpaper discusses the future of healthcare and medical savings accounts
Aboriginal Leader, Actor Makes Plea for Peace
“The indigenous struggle throughout the world is the same,” Means, 64, told a luncheon gathering of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Winnipeg-based independent think-tank. “I believe in individual liberty through self-determination and through representative government.”
Sniff crisis put in PM’s lap
THE solvent-abuse crisis gripping a Manitoba reserve will be thrown in the laps of Prime Minister Paul Martin and his top cabinet ministers when they meet in Winnipeg on Friday. Frontier’s Don Sanberg coments in the story about the need for governance reform.
Frontier Media Coverage: “Let it Sprawl”
URBAN sprawl is pretty much a dirty word at city hall these days, but a contrarian policy expert tried yesterday to persuade Winnipeggers that growing suburbs are a good thing.
The Swedish Model – Healthcare
Nurses want more money. In British Columbia, they rejected the provincial government's offer of a 22% wage increase over two years and have refused to work overtime. More than 5,000 operations have been cancelled since April. In Nova Scotia, Premier John Hamm is...
Killing the land with farm subsidies
As spring snow fell outside her office in Saskatoon, Nettie Wiebe, a farmer, professor and long-time political activist, was musing about an agricultural apocalypse.
Dr. Illarionov’s 13% solution
Andrei Illarionov, the maverick leading Russia’s newest economic revolution, says the IMF has bungled the country’s free-market reforms long enough