Using the European state of Estonia as a model, this study shows how Saskatchewan has an opportunity to place itself at the front of the pack delivering services and fostering greater entrepreneurship among Canadian governments by enhancing its e-Government services.
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ICSC Media Release – “Earth Hour” Should be Replaced with ‘Energy Hour’: Forget ‘Earth Hour’; Participate in ‘Energy Hour’ one hour earlier
Media Release from International Climate Science Coalition. (ICSC)
Media Release – Frontier Centre releases inaugural Canadian Property Rights Index: Assessing the State of Property Rights Protections in Canada
In seeking to understand property rights threats across Canada, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released its inaugural Canadian Property Rights Index, which measures property rights protections across eight significant areas.
Media Release – Will Increasing the Number of Police Officers Yield Less Crime?: Canada’s Cities Have Sufficient Police Resources
This backgrounder calls into question the common assumption that an increased police presence would reduce crime levels in Canadian cities
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
Media Release – How Affordable is Your Housing?: The Frontier Centre releases its 6th annual international comparison of housing affordability
Despite the recession, Canada’s housing became slightly less affordable in the past year.
Media Release – Myths about Childcare Subsidies: The Frontier Centre looks at daycare facts
Is day care an unalloyed good? A new paper by Frontier’s Ben Eisen looks at the research literature and finds the benefits of daycare to be ambiguous, and that a universal childcare system is likely an overly expensive and inefficient policy option.
Media Release – Needed: Freedom to Build—For the Homeless
The policy responses to homelessness, while numerous, have not addressed the primary cause: the restrained supply of private housing, which for the last two decades has been a significant reason the homeless proportion of the population has grown so rapidly.
Media Release – Canada Health Consumer Index 2009
How good is your provincial health care? Frontier’s annual Canada Health Consumer Index evaluates healthcare-system performance in the ten provinces from the perspective of the consumer. For the second straight year, Ontario and British Columbia finish with the top scores in the CHCI’s overall rankings.
Media Release – Poll: Postpone Copenhagen Treaty: 73% of Canadians favour waiting
According to a new COMPAS poll, most Canadians prefer to hold off on signing a global warming treaty in Copenhagen; reasons include concern over the economy and doubts about the sureness of the science.
Media Release – 2009 Local Government Performance Index: Frontier’s third annual report on municipal finances and reporting standards
An easily accessible index of financial statistics and assessments of reporting standards for 88 Canadian municipalities.
Media Release – Christmas Comes Early for Winnipeg Taxi License Owners: Values rise at a trend average of $44/day for the last decade.
When taxi shield holders ask for taxi fares to be raised, decision makers should consider the immense values already capitalised into market value of the licences, now approaching $400,000 in Winnipeg.
Media Release – Thinking Sensibly About Recycling and the Environment: The Frontier Centre challenges misconceptions about size of the problem recycling addresses
Recycling has become the balm du jour for the environmental concerns of landfill overflow, resource extraction, and resource scarcity. However looking quantitatively at the magnitudes of these problems and the real potential for recycling to alleviate them suggests we shouldn’t push the recycling policy button as enthusiastically as we currently do.
Media Release – Germany’s Post Office Model: Liberalization Lessons for Canada
Liberalization has also led to lower prices for customers through increased competition. In other European countries, only business customers enjoyed lower prices. In Germany, large firms now pay up to 30 per cent less in postage than they did in 2003 and consumers have also seen lower prices since liberalization