New Book Challenges Media and Government Narratives Around Canada’s Freedom Convoy WINNIPEG – Amid heated debates about government accountability and civil liberties, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released a powerful new book, Unjustified: The Freedom...
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The CBC: From Crown Jewel To Jacobins
Excerpt from the book: Against the Corporate Media _ Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You (2024) – Michael Walsh ; chapter written by Elizabeth Nickson. The Beast Renegade governmental organizations are virtually impossible to rein in, especially if they...
Key Policy Ideas for the BC Election
An election in British Columbia presents opportunities to discuss critical policies for the province's future. Here are a few key ideas we hope British Columbians will consider for adoption by their next government, regardless of the political label of that...
Timeless Wisdom – The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
The profligate pattern in public policy in which politicians damage economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing, and higher taxes inevitably leads to fiscal crises, sharp declines in growth, and, ultimately, currency value and living standards. Since...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Money Talks: Roger Douglas on Losing Faith in All the Parties – Including Act
Roger Douglas, former Labour Finance Minister and co-founder of the Act Party, is plainly unimpressed with modern politics. “Look at the last 20 years, you tell me anyone, any Government that’s done anything,” he says. Douglas, now 86, probably has more right than...
Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932-1933 : report to Congress / Commission on the Ukraine Famine
Based on testimony heard and staff research, the Commission on the Ukraine Famine makes the following findings: 1) There is no doubt that large numbers of inhabitants of the Ukrainian SSR and the North Caucasus Territory starved to death in a man-made famine in...
Put The Acid On Great Barrier Reef Doomsayers
This op ed was originally published by The Australian on Monday, April 13, 2015: www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/put-the-acid-on-great-barrier-reef-doomsayers/story-e6frg6zo-1227300731557
The World’s Ten Largest Megacities
Originally published for The Huffington Post. The world is rapidly becoming urban. More than half the world’s 7-plus billion people live in urban areas (urban cores, suburbs and small towns). Nearly a quarter of the population lives in “cities” of a million or more....
Middle-Income Housing Affordability: International Situation
This article was written by Wendell Cox and originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Hong Kong, Sydney, Vancouver and the San Francisco Bay Area have the worst middle-income housing affordability in 9 nations, according to 11th Annual Demographia International...
Urbanization and the Good News About World Poverty
Originally printed in the Huffington Post. The history of humanity is a history of poverty. This is illustrated in the work of University of California, Davis economist Gregory Clark. According to Clark (Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World):...
Parents Guide To Common Sense Education (CJME)
Education researcher Michael Zwaagstra has a new handbook coming out next month from the Frontier Centre. Parents’ guide to Common Sense Education in Saskatchewan covers issues ranging from standardized testing to report cards and teaching strategies. (CJME)
Human Achievement Hour 2014
Tomorrow, March 29th 2014, between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, we'll be celebrating Human Achievement Hour. This one-hour event coincides with Earth Hour, an annual event where governments, businesses and individuals dim or shut off lights in an effort to raise awareness about...
The Undead Suburban Office Market
Source: Wendell Cox, NewGeography, 18 November 2013 The restoration of central city living and working environments has been one of the more important developments in the nation’s metropolitan areas over the past two decades. Regrettably, a good story has been...