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
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.
Media Release – National Coalition on Federal Transfers Launched
An informal coalition of six not-for-profit and think tank organizations have agreed the issue of federal transfers to the provinces needs to be placed firmly on the national agenda.
Featured News
What Must Be Done to Curb Canada’s Household Debt
Canada is struggling economically. From inflation and deficits to investment and employment, everything that should be up is down, and everything that should be down is up. One striking symptom of economic rot is household debt, which is rising faster than incomes....
Crown Utilities’ Unfair Advantages Reduce Competition, Innovation
Largely unique among state-owned enterprises, ‘SEOs’, worldwide, Canadian Crown corporations have two key advantages over current and future private sector competitors: non-taxable status and access to low-cost public sector borrowing rates. Other implicit edges...
Three Independent Think Tanks Offer New Prime Minister New Policy Vision
Three independent think tanks offer policy ideas to incoming Prime Minister Paul Martin
MEDIA RELEASE- Pay Teachers for Results, Not Credentials, Says New Report
Merit pay study released; proposes new system for paying Manitoba teachers
MEDIA RELEASE – Less Means More, Says Winnipeg Think-Tank
Frontier Centre releases new paper suggesting fewer subsidies and better policies for the downtown
Winnipeg Property Tax Burden Lighter, But Comparatively Heavy
[WINNIPEG] Despite a decided trend towards reductions, Winnipeg’s property taxes are still higher than most other Canadian cities, according to a new comparison released today by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. “Between 2000 and 2001, the city did an impressive...
Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin endorses Frontier Centre policy proposal
In a speech yesterday, Federal Finance Minister Hon. Paul Martin said that he was supportive of a major policy initiative.
Federal Fisheries Program Creating Problems for the Prairies
The new Fisheries and Oceans Canada (FOC) fish habitat enforcement program has serious deficiencies that threaten the growth and development of the prairie economy, concludes a policy analysis released today.