A new study published today by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy shows that technology, not budget cuts or political interference, is driving change at CBC. Changing technology is affecting all broadcasters, not just CBC. Industry experts and...
Media Release
Frontier Centre Releases Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Calgary
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Calgary, a new report authored by Wendell Cox, a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre. Mr Cox is an expert in land use and transportation policy and the...
Frontier Centre for Public Policy Values SaskPower at $2.35 – 2.62 Billion
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an independent research institute based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, released today an independent valuation of the potential market value of SaskPower, the provincial Crown electric power utility owned by the citizens and taxpayers of...
Frontier Centre Releases Crown Corporations and Government Divestment
Today, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy issued: Crown Corporations & Government Divestment authored by Jan Pavel. Many Canadian Crown corporations were divested in late 1980s and 1990s. Two decades later, a large majority of the privatizations have proven to...
Featured News
Timeless Wisdom – The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...
Canada’s National Hysteria in the 21st Century
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In...
Media Release – Time to Privatize Canada’s Airports: Airport Policy in Canada
High rents paid to the federal government have forced airports to increase landing fees to uncompetitive levels.
Media Release – Evolutionary biologist to debunk Polar Bear misconceptions at University of Toronto: Professor Susan J. Crockford, Ph.D. to deliver public presentation: “Polar Bears – Outstanding Survivors of Climate Change”
Media Release
Media Release – Distracted Driving Legislation Failing to Make the Roads Safer
Consistent with the evidence from US states, the new Manitoba distracted driving laws appear to have made the roads slightly more dangerous, rather than less. The unintended consequence of these laws is that people find dangerous ways to hide their activities, rather than complying with the law.
Media Release – Local Government Performance Index: Comparative Canadian Municipal Statistics
The Local Government Performance Index affords users the ability to compare financial data among Canadian municipalities.
Media Release – Scores for every High School in Manitoba and Saskatchewan: Second Annual Western High School Report Card (2012)
The Manitoba government is still unwilling to cooperate in the assessment of school performance leading to improving the quality of the province’s high school education.
Media Release – Improving the Quality of Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Workable Voucher System for Aboriginal Students
Aboriginal education in Canada could improve significantly if Indian bands and parents took a greater role in the education of the children in their communities, insuring prompt remedial literacy and numeracy.
Media Release – A Performance-Based Accountability System In Higher Education: How to Improve Undergraduate Teaching in Canada
This backgrounder describes how improved performance measurement for professors can promote transparency and accountability in Canadian universities while improving the quality of undergraduate education.
Media Release – The lingering effects of the 1897 Crow’s Nest Pass rates on grain remain today: Protected grain freight needs to go
A new study for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy suggests that over-regulation of grain freight policies negatively affects railway productivity and investment and therefore should be discarded.
Media Release – Traffic Congestion Hurts Productivity: A National Transit Strategy Could Make Matters Worse
Gridlock costs Canadian cities billions of dollars in productivity. It also costs commuters both time and money. Many transit advocates believe that a national transit strategy will help increase mobility, and reduce gridlock. But Cox argues that rather than increasing mobility, a national transit strategy could make things worse.