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Transmountain Pipeline Expansion Project a Success?
The Transmountain Mountain Pipeline expansion project (TMEP) was completed on May 01, 2024. Its startup the following month ended an eleven-year saga of tectonic federal energy policy initiatives, climate change requirements, federal regulatory restructuring, and...
Why Is a UFC Fighter Promoting Mises and Austrian Economics?
Renato Moicano is a UFC fighter from Brazil who made a big splash at an event this weekend. In a rather remarkable moment he used his time at the microphone to push a school of economic thought. “If you care about your country,” he said, “read Ludwig von Mises and the...
Leaders on the Frontier – Canadians Are Hurting – With Frank Stronach
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Greater Oil and Gas Export Capacity Will Boost Canadian Dollar – And Productivity
Canada’s productivity performance has been dismal, having not increased over the last nearly ten years. Economists calculate productivity as the value of output divided by hours worked to generate that output. However, the numerator, being the value of the goods and...
Believe It Or Not, There Is Good News About Rising Interest Rates
It is taking a while, but a prolonged period of elevated interest rates, at both the short end set by the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, and at the long end in the bond market set by domestic and foreign investors, is coming to be...
Alberta’s Close Brush with Blackouts Stiffens Moes Resolve
Alberta’s close brush with possible rolling blackouts stiffens Moe’s resolve to keep the lights on. Moe reiterates: “We will not attempt the impossible when it comes to power production” The past weekend proved to be a close-run thing for the Alberta electrical...
Can Argentina’s New President Succeed?
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What 100 Million “Unbanked” Nigerians Can Teach Canadians about Central Bank Digital Currency
Despite credit cards, e-transfers and online banking having already made money go pretty much digital, the Bank of Canada is busily working on a much bigger transformation. Canada is one of about 100 countries that – in uncanny synchronicity – several years ago joined...
Higher Interest Rates May Make Productivity Higher Too
It is taking a while, but a prolonged period of elevated interest rates, at both the short end set by the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, and at the long end in the bond market set by domestic and foreign investors, is coming to be...
High-Rise Datacenters: Potential to Assist Downtown Recovery
The largest Central business districts (CBDs or downtowns) face a serious crisis as working from home has seriously reduced the demand for five-day on-site employment. The CBDs most at risk are typically those with the strongest transit work trip market shares, at...
Frontier Live On X – Our Economy & Our Future with Prof. William Watson
Watch William Watson, opinion editor for the Financial Post, discuss the state of the economy in Canada with Frontier's Vice President and host of Live on X, David Leis. (53 minutes, was live November 23 2023).
Grey Matter: Woke Changes the Courts and Country – With Thomas Flanagan
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