Professor Bryan Schwartz, along with several colleagues, describes barriers to professional practice that unfairly prevent highly skilled immigrant professionals from working in the jobs for which they are trained. This publication describes the problem, and identifies a number of strategies for policy reform.
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Media Release – Zero Support for No-Zero Policies
Michael Zwaagstra shows that no-zero grading policies create unhelpful incentives for students, and diminish the quality of education in our schools.
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”
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Demand Fairness from Ottawa and Edmonton
A few weeks ago, Albertans voted to reduce the inequities in the federal equalization program. The deficit between the dollars that leave to and come back from Ottawa has recently been as high as $27 billion in one year. During times of crisis, it feels like salt in...
Inflation: They Win, You Lose: Politicos, Cronies Fleece Canadians with Monetary Expansion
One of the most widespread economic myths is that inflation—the reduced purchasing power of a currency—is a win for a nation, a sign of a booming economy. For the privileged classes in government and with initial access to monetary expansion, it is a win. For everyone...
Media Release – A ‘Living Wage’ Won’t Kill Poverty
New Frontier Centre Policy Series Paper by Peter Shawn Taylor shows how a “living wage” policy is the wrong way to help the working-poor in Calgary.
Media Release – More Jobs and Better Taxi Service
Market failure, regulatory failure, and how to make taxi markets function for more jobs and better service.
Media Release – Defining Poverty
Canadians and particularly journalists are constantly bombarded with statistics about poverty, in this media release about a new Policy Series Paper David Seymour looks at where the numbers come from.
Media Release – 5th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
After a year of unprecedented turbulence in world housing markets, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released a survey comparing the price of housing to incomes in 265 cities worldwide, including 34 from Canada. The 5th annual Demographia International Housing...
Media Release – New Frontier Centre Backgrounder Shows How 21,000 More Manitobans Could Get Affordable Housing
21,000 more low-income Manitobans could be helped if the provincial government sold the province’s residential real estate portfolio, this according to a new study from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Media Release – New report compares municipal government’s financial performance
New study released compares the financial health and financial reporting standards of Canada’s 79 most populous municipalities.
Media Release – 50 European Civil Society Groups Urge Governments to Reject Siren Song on Climate Change
A new report released by a coalition of over 50 European civil society groups warns that a cap on emissions of carbon would do little to protect humanity against the threat of climate change. Instead, it would drastically increase the threat of global economic catastrophe.
Media Release: 50% of Canadians’ Wealth is Not Protected from Expropriation
A new study notes that over 50% of the personal wealth held by Canadians is held in real estate – and that it is not protected from expropriation.
Media Release: Restoring Peter Lougheed’s Original Vision
The Alberta government needs to make regular deposits into the Heritage Fund says the Frontier Centre’s Director of Research, Mark Milke. Since Alberta became debt-free, the province has taken in over $47-billion in resource revenues while depositing only $3.9 billion into the Heritage Fund.