PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Lunch on the Frontier speech by Dr. Tim Ball in Winnipeg February 9, 2011.
Speech
Drill, Baby, Drill! Why Canada Needs its Offshore Oil (Lyatsky)
PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Lunch on the Frontier speech by Henry Lyatsky in Calgary February 3, 2011.
Insights into Public Policy – With Bill Parrish Sr.
Breakfast on the Frontier
President Václav Klaus: Inaugural Annual GWPF Lecture
The Climate Change Doctrine is Part of Environmentalism, Not of Science It is a great honor for me to be here tonight, getting a chance to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to such a distinguished audience. Even though it may seem...
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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
Johan Norberg Speech – The Benefits of Globalization
A speech by one of the world’s leading defenders of globalization, Johan Norberg, to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, April 29, 2003.
Let Aboriginals Join the Real Economy
The lack of property rights is one cause of Aboriginal poverty. This speech suggests it blocks that community from participating in the real economy.
How Rent Control Killed Affordable Housing in Winnipeg
Senior Policy Analyst Dennis Owens discusses how rent control hurts the poor
*What’s Wrong with Medicare and How to Fix It
The authorities in Stockholm remain just as committed to government funding of health care as they ever were. They’ve simply found a better way to do it.
Fiscal Equalization Revisited
A luncheon talk at “Equalization: Helping Hand or Welfare Trap?”, a conference co-sponsored by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, the Montreal Economic Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Montreal, 25 October 2001
Swedish Healthcare in Transition
The day in October when I returned to Sweden, the Social Democrat government, with Green Party support, finally presented a bill intended to forbid the selling of emergency hospitals to profit-making companies.
John Bruton, Former Prime Minister of Ireland
Many analysts who seek to find the reasons for Ireland’s recent phenomenal economic success start with things that happened in the comparatively recent past – 1987 is suggested as a start date in one partisan version of events. My own belief is that many of the ingredients of Ireland’s success originated further back.
High Performance Government in New Zealand
I’m delighted to be here today to share with you some of New Zealand’s experience with public sector reform. These reforms are an important part of our recent history. They are something that I am proud to say that I have been a part of – both the reforms and my parliamentary career began with the 1984 election.
The Freedom to Innovate
Although it is the Manitoba blue print for educational reform, is the result of the larger educational reform movement which is occurring throughout North America. This reform movement is being driven by forces which are outside the educational system.