Ben Eisen and Romy Yourex examine a number of performance measures to assess important trends surrounding the health and vitality of Canada’s natural environment.
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Media Release – Barry Cooper Reviews Bricker and Ibbitson’s The Big Shift: Whither the Laurentian Canadian worldview
Professor Barry Cooper reviews Bricker and Ibbitson’s book The Big Shift and discusses the implications for Canadian identity and over all policy.
Media Release – Frontier Centre’s Rod Clifton appointed Professor Emeritus
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is pleased to announce that Rod Clifton, a Senior Research Fellow, will be named Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba on Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
Media Release – Eco-Fascists: A Review of Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists are Destroying our Natural Heritage, by Elizabeth Nickson.
Professor Barry Cooper reviews Elizabeth Nickson’s controversial 2012 book about “eco-fascism” and considers its implications for policy development in Canada.
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Why University?
In this essay, I explain that young people should come to university to be educated, and not to become credentialed; the public should support universities because universities educate young people, not because they produce credentialled workers. Why should a...
A Lamentable Tale of Two Colonies
During the whole of recorded history, the empire has been the most constant and common form of political organization. A basic, self-evident feature of all empire-building has been the successful occupation of the lands of the local, Indigenous inhabitants by outside...
Media Release – Winning the Battle with Traffic Congestion: Why inner city and rush-hour traffic pricing makes sense
Instead of increasing road capacity, Canada’s government agencies should implement accurate transport pricing.
Media Release – Culturally-Driven Violence Against Women: A growing problem in Canada’s immigrant communities
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released Culturally-Driven Violence Against Women: A growing problem in Canada’s immigrant communities. The report, written by Aruna Papp, M.Ed., M.A., a Toronto-based social worker who deals with domestic violence, focuses...
Media Release – Canada’s Not-So Friendly Skies: Why Canadian Consumers Pay Sky-High Airfares
Canadian consumers pay sky-high airfares compared to both the U.S. and Europe.
Media Release – Frontier Centre releases 2010 Aboriginal Governance Index: Top scoring First Nations receive recognition
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released its fourth annual Aboriginal Governance Index; it ranks 78 Prairie First Nation communities on good governance practices.
Media Release – Frontier Centre Launches New Interactive Website for Local Government Statistics
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today launched a new website which turns its three-year-old Local Government Performance Index into an interactive tool for journalists, municipal staff, and the public. The site contains comparative statistics from the Annual Reports of Canada’s municipalities, and judgements on the quality of their reporting. The URL is www.lgpi.ca
Media Release – Saskatchewan’s Commercial Crown Corporation Dividend Policy: Change isn’t always Progress
A former Vice-President of Finance for Crown Investments Corporation critiques the Saskatchewan government’s decision to take 100% of the 2010 profits of commercial Crowns other than SaskPower.
Media Release – Environmental Policy and Unintended Consequences: When green regulation works—and when it harms the very environment it aims to protect
Well-meaning efforts by governments to protect the environment can backfire, resulting in severe harm to human beings and, in some instances, to the natural environment regulators sought to protect.
Media Release – Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2010
The 3rd annual Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index is out: Canada lags behind in 25th place and far behind consumer and competition friendly Holland.
Media Release – Aboriginal Policy in Australia and Canada: From Handout to Hand-Up
A new study compares Aboriginal policy in Australia and Canada: Bottom-up policy and accountability is key to improvements.