Ottawa, Canada, April 22, 2013: “Earth Day participants must distance themselves from the climate scare or risk the event degenerating into irrelevance,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). Noting the intense climate focus in this year’s Earth Day Network advertising, Harris warned, “As the hypothesis that humanity’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing dangerous global warming falls into disrepute, all those associated with the climate alarm will also lose credibility.”
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Media Release – Cities Should Fight Poverty, Not Increase It: How do we get more prosperous cities?
Today the Frontier Centre released the backgrounder Toward More Prosperous Cities by Wendell Cox. The objective of public policy should be to achieve wide-spread affluence and eradicate poverty. Cities, urban policy, and urban transport are means to facilitate this objective, not ends themselves.
ICSC Media Release – Premier Redford’s Washington DC Brookings Institute Presentation Helps Opponents: Keystone XL pipeline not worth burdening Canada with severe carbon dioxide regulations
ICSC Media Release from Tom Harris.
Media Release – Alternative Roles for the National Broadcaster: Options for the CBC
This policy study examines the original rationale for a national public broadcaster, assesses the impact of changes in technology over the ensuing years and then examines whether there is still a role for the CBC to play given these developments.
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No Evidence of Climate Crisis
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
It Is Time to Move On
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
Media Release – Toward Greater Transparency in Water: It’s time to separate infrastructure from politics
Media Release for Frontier’s new report that shows how the public-private partnership being considered by Winnipeg City Council on sewer services and infrastructure is an effective model.
Media Release – Punishing Productivity: Comparing equalization programs in Australia and Canada
A new Frontier study finds that unlike in Canada, equalization in Australia at least takes into account the cost of delivering services in each jurisdiction.
Media Release – The Real Have-Nots in Confederation: Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia: How Canada’s equalization program creates generous programs and large governments in have-not provinces
British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario—the traditional “have” provinces—have fewer doctors and nurses per 100,000 people, higher tuition rates, fewer child care spaces, less social service spending, and higher educator-student ratios in comparison with Quebec, the major equalization recipient.
Media Release – 2010 International Property Rights Index: Canada outranks USA; but Improvements Needed: Finland scores highest in protection of property; Canada at 12th place but has no constitutional guarantees for property
In 2010, Canada ranks as the highest country in the Western hemisphere for protection of property, according to a new international study.
Relocate Remote Native Reserves, New Study says; Isolation from ‘Wider Economic and Social Processes’ Has Led to Problems Such as Teen Suicide, Alcoholism
“A bold new study calls on Ottawa and Canada’s native leaders to negotiate the relocation of remote Indian reserves to areas close to Canadian cities.”
Media Release – Opportunism and Exploitation: Climate Change Activism and Hostility to Liberal Civilization
Ben Eisen analyzes the intellectual roots of climate change alarmism, and concludes that radical environmentalism is best viewed as part of a broader, centuries old critique of liberal civilization.
Media Release – Indigenous Leaders Should Consider Reserve Relocations: Frontier Centre releases major study urging voluntary relocation of non-viable reserves
Non-viable reserves need to be identified by indigenous leaders –and moved, for the sake of the younger generation.
Media Release – Grading Western Canada’s Schools: The Good, The Okay and Manitoba’s Information Omission: AIMS and the Frontier Centre release an Interim High School Report Card for Western Canada
AIMS and the Frontier Centre release an Interim High School Report Card for Western Canada.
Media Release – Smart Local Government: The Frontier Centre points to outcomes, not rules, as necessary for Canada’s cities
“Good local government law promotes good local government,” writes Frontier senior fellow Larry Mitchell in a new look at reforming Canada’s antiquated municipal government legislation.