Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many countries have imposed various restrictions. The rest of the world has imported the lockdown strategy, first used in China, restricting businesses that are classified as non-essential. Vaccination has been presented as a way to...
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Alberta’s Premier Places Albertans ‘Beyond the Pale’
On Monday, April 12, Alberta’s premier posted on social media his reaction to the protests that visited the steps of the Legislature and surrounded the proscribed ground of GraceLife Church (the premier’s words are posted here). Estimates put the crowd at the...
Outrage Exhaustion: The Trial of Derek Chauvin
The trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd has exposed Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo and forced him to personally give evidence and account for, or more correctly, reject, Chauvin’s actions. The televised trial, with the testimony of other...
Computer Modellers are Still Driving the COVID-19 Fear Wagon
Renewed calls for prolonged lockdowns to deal with the new SARS-CoV-2 mutations are wrong-headed. The policy response to the COVID-19 crisis has been and continues to be moved by fear that is in turn propelled by statistical models incapable of accounting for risk and...
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Supply Chain Strains Could Cause Shortages and Hoarding
Supply chain problems, both international and domestic, could create shortages and hoarding, and make recent inflationary pressures even worse. Although problems with our ports and railways may beg policy solutions, the short-term response of everyday Canadians should...
New Book: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
CALGARY, AB, December 17, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis written by Susan Martinuk. Susan is an accomplished, nationally recognized researcher and writer who has...
Goodbye Mark Carney: You Let Your Bias Get the Better of You
Canadian economist Mark Carney is stepping down as the Governor of the Bank of England and will be replaced by Andrew Bailey on March 16, 2020. Anybody actively involved in the Brexit debate, as I am, is certain to hold strong opinions about Carney’s time in the role,...
Building Pipelines to Tidewater
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Missing a Post-Brexit Trade Opportunity
Brexit uncertainty is no more, following the election of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with the largest Conservative majority since 1987. Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement will be passed in the House of Commons and the United Kingdom will leave...
A Wake up Call For Canada
Canada’s recent federal election result exposes intractable challenges dating from confederation in 1867. Wexit could allow Alberta to escape from a burden somewhat resembling the maladministration that afflicted Argentina, once the world’s equal richest country. For...
Rushing to Have an Alberta Independence Referendum Is a Bad Gamble
Whether one endorses or opposes the option of an independent Alberta, Albertans would do well to consider the option carefully. While Quebec went through two referendums in 15 years, it took decades for their sovereignty movement to develop. After the near-victory in...
Different Destinies: Britain’s Future Post-Election
Britain is going to the polls on December 12th for its third general election in four years. After a long struggle in Parliament for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to get MPs to support a motion for a general election, the British public is being given an opportunity to...
Woke Capitalism Is a Sign of Things to Come
No one ever had trouble finding examples of corporate hypocrisy. Recent months seem to have brought a bounty. The same companies who submit to Chinese authorities have no problem resisting American ones. Corporations threaten boycotts against states whose legislatures...
Politically Blocked isn’t the Same Thing as Geographically Landlocked
In mocking response to those wishing to separate, some quip that Alberta would remain landlocked the day after it becomes independent. With a more respectful tone, Alberta’s own premier used similar words in his recent “Fair Deal for Alberta” speech. Those endorsing...
Erosion of Legitimacy
The City of Winnipeg has experienced a rash of liquor store swarming involving masked individuals who have become increasingly accustomed to experiencing little or no resistance. This has become a trend and one that the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission, store...