Ottawa, November 2, 2022 – A citizens group, chaired by Preston Manning, announced plans for a National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) into Canada’s response to COVID-19 in Ottawa today. Canada’s federal, provincial, and municipal governments’ responses to COVID-19 were of an...
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MEDIA RELEASE – New Frontier Centre Book Calls on Universities to be Dangerous
A Collection of Sharp and Insightful Challenges to Higher Education in Canada WINNIPEG, August 4, 2022 – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just published In Praise of Dangerous Universities and Other Essays, by philosophy professor Mark Mercer. Universities...
MEDIA RELEASE – Housing Markets in 25 of 46 Canadian Cities Now Unaffordable
Affordability Continues to Decline Sharply in Canada WINNIPEG, June 28, 2022 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released its latest housing affordability rankings for the 46 largest cities in Canada. Prepared by Frontier senior fellow Wendell Cox, this...
2022 Edition of Demographia International Housing Affordability
How Affordable is Housing in Your City? 2022 Edition of Demographia International Housing Affordability CANADA, March 7, 2022 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the Urban Reform Institute has just released the 2022 Edition of Demographia International Housing...
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
New Book: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
CALGARY, AB, December 17, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis written by Susan Martinuk. Susan is an accomplished, nationally recognized researcher and writer who has...
New Book: “So Much More We Can Be”
Saskatchewan’s paradigm shift and the final chapter on the Grant Devine government 1982-1991 WINNIPEG, MB, June 14, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy just released So Much More We Can Be: Saskatchewan’s paradigm shift and the final chapter on the Grant...
New Book: Indigenizing the University: Diverse Perspectives
Diverse perspectives from a variety of disciplines examine the multiple aspects of university Indigenization. CALGARY, AB, March 1, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Indigenizing the University: Diverse Perspectives edited by...
New Book: Extremist Opportunism in the COVID Economy
WINNIPEG, MB, October 27, 2020 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just published and released a new short-book: Extremist Opportunism in the COVID Economy by Jack Buckby; a research associate with the Frontier Centre, and a British author of several books on...
Frontier Centre Appoints new Vice-President of Research
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has appointed Gerard Lucyshyn as Vice-President of Research effective August 15, 2017. Gerard will be taking over for outgoing Vice-President Dr. Rodney Clifton who will be taking on the responsibility as Publications Editor for...
Media Release – Property Rights Alliance celebrates World IP Day with an Open Letter
Property Rights Alliance celebrates World IP Day with an Open Letter to WIPO Urging Greater Protection of Intellectual Property Washington, DC - In honor of World IP Day, Property Rights Alliance and 54 partner organizations across the globe sent an open letter to...
Frontier Centre releases Measuring the Size and Cost of Manitoba’s and Saskatchewan’s Public Sectors
Today the Frontier Centre for Public Policy released a new study documenting how high public sector employment rates in the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan have significant costs to the taxpayers of those provinces. Additional spending on the public sector wage...
Frontier Centre releases The Cost Disease Infects Manitoba Education
A new study published by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy shows that per-pupil education costs are soaring in Manitoba. Taxpayers shoulder an ever-increasing burden, but there is little evidence that higher spending results in better educational outcomes. ...