The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released A Valuation of the Centra Gas Division of Manitoba Hydro authored by Ian Madsen. Fifteen years ago, Centra Gas was a private, investor-owned company. However, since then it has been a division of the Crown...
In recent weeks, the Brad Wall government in Saskatchewan has advanced Bill 40, which would allow for the sale of up to 49% of any Crown corporation presently owned by Regina. While there has been predictable criticism and opposition from those who believe that...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a study about the privatization of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS). The report was co-authored by Dr. Mark Moore and Dr. Aidan Vining, both at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, BC....
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a study by Mary-Jane Bennett, a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. As the Crow Flies: Transportation Policy in Saskatchewan and the Crow’s Nest Pass Agreement studies the Crow rate, one of the...
If a public inquiry found that hundreds of millions of dollars was being funnelled by foreign entities to undermine Canadian industry, should we conclude there is nothing wrong? Remarkably, the public inquiry’s final report into anti-Alberta energy campaigns did the...
One-third of Canadian millennials prefer going solo when it comes to managing and investing their money. Online financial education and tools are changing the rules of the game and threatening to affect financial advisors how emails affected mailmen. A recent poll...
Liberalized airline competition in Europe have benefited consumers with extremely competitive and inexpensive airlines fares.
What’s the solution to a slow-moving mail system in Canada? German efficiency, as demonstrated by that country’s successful 10-year experiment in liberalizing its postal sector.
The Frontier Centre compares Germany’s post office, Deutsche Poste and Canada Post in its latest Policy Series Study (13 pages).
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
In what amounts to a complete repudiation of the economic policies of Vladamir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President, pledged yesterday to disband Russia’s inefficient state corporations and called for a probe into their use of state money.
The United States, Europe and Japan all have motorway systems that reach virtually all of their major urban areas; Canada is the exception.
Governments are not in the tobacco business; they shouldn’t be in the liquor business either.
“The real revolution in personal mobility had to wait for the automobile and the jet airliner,” he writes. “These technologies were affordable to every economic class. The wealthiest 20 per cent of Americans drive only a few more miles a year than the poorest 20 per cent. The automobile is the most egalitarian form of mechanized travel ever developed.”
Spurred by advances in information technology, especially the spread of broadband services, telecommuting is already the fastest growing mode of getting from home to work.