Should those running traditional businesses being edged out by sharing economy stalwarts like AirBNB and Uber be getting more consideration for their positions by politicians? Gerard Lucyshyn, Vice-President of Research at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy joins...
Media Appearances
Wendell Cox joins Global News to discuss the advantages, or disadvantages to implementing a High Speed Train from Vancouver to Portland. (~10 minutes)
Graham Lane, retired Chair of the Manitoba Public Utilities Board and expert advisory panel member of the Frontier Centre discusses the mass resignation of the Board of Directors of Manitoba Hydro. He is the author of the 2013 Frontier Centre paper Dam Nation –...
Patrik Schumacher, managing partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, and consultant Wendell Cox are both controversial figures in the urbanist world. They joined Aaron M. Renn in conversation to talk about their beliefs and what it's like to challenge the urbanist...
Featured News
Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Health-Care Funding Promises Ignore Reality: Province should look abroad to find innovative solutions that work
In her “A GP for Me” plan, Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid is promising an extra $100 million for 176,000 new patients. That works out to $568 per year per new patient, which would pay for a simple GP office visit about every three weeks for an average patient, one per month for the frail, or one visit every six weeks for complex or pregnant patients.
Author and Activist Speaks Out Against Honour Killings
Aruna Papp spent the past three decades devoted to helping Southeast Asian women in Canada and serves as research associate with the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy. She is also an outspoken advocate for women from cultures that devalue females and she is most appalled at the murders of females at the hands of their fathers and brothers.
Crown Corporations Interview
Tomorrow morning I will be on John Gormley’s show on Newstalk in Saskatchewan to talk about a new report we’re releasing calling for a review of the province’s Crown Corporations.
ATB Branches May Privatize to Cover Alberta’s Growing Deficit: Move would net about $4 billion
The Alberta Treasury Branch (ATB Financial) may be sold to private ownership to subsidize Alberta’s growing deficit, netting an approximate $4 billion dollars in fiscal influx to cover government expenditure.
Nelson to import American Indian Movement
A Winnipeg chapter of the American Indian Movement will be formally organized on Saturday with Nelson, the former head of the Roseau River reserve, announcing Tuesday that three of 20 positions on the Grand Governing Council will be filled in a ceremony at Thunderbird House. Nelson said the Idle No More movement has engaged aboriginals.
CBRM Sinks Lower in Think-Tank Survey
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy on Monday released the sixth annual edition of its local government performance index, which the CBRM has been a part of since the index’s first year in 2008.
New Report Propels Regina to Third Place
The City of Regina, by comparison, climbed nine spots over last year to tie for third with Maple Ridge, B.C., in the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s annual Local Government Performance Index released Monday.
Dictating Their Own Fate
Figures on aboriginal population from the 2011 census are not yet available, but the 2006 census showed nearly 1.2 million Canadians — about 4 per cent of the population — claim to be aboriginal. Of these, fewer than a quarter (under 400,000) live on reserves.
Warming Lies: More Ratty Data
The National Climatic Data Center wrongly declared July 2012 as America‘s hottest July ever — and hasn‘t corrected itself.