Cuba is a country undergoing economic modernization. This past year, the country allowed citizens to sale and purchase private property. Just recently, the government announced that citizens may now own vehicles. Slowly, this country is reforming itself and allowing...
Poverty
Untax Buildings, Uptax Land
PowerPoint slides which accompanied former Green Party Leader of Ontario, Speaker, Writer Frank de Jong’s speech Untax Buildings, Uptax Land that he gave in Calgary, Regina and Winnipeg late November 2011.
Strenghthening Union Members in Saskatchewan
A move to remove employers from the union funding equation is likely to strengthen labour unions in Saskatchewan.
Smart Growth Hurts the Urban Poor: Urban planners hurting the home owning dream
The idea of containing urban populations through Smart Growth strategies has typically sent housing prices soaring and has hurt those least able to afford buying a house of their own, the urban poor.
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Canada in 2073—Will There Be One?
“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
World Cries out for Canadian LNG, “No Business Case” Feds have Totally Failed Us
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
Mark Chamberlain, Entrepreneur, Business and Community Leader
Frontier talks to Mark Chamberlain about fighting poverty in Hamilton through “cross-sectoral collaboration”.
Calgary’s Living Wage Boondoggle
Calgary could soon be the first city in Canada to adopt a living wage. But the proposed policy will not help a single person in poverty and could do substantial damage to the local labour market.
Lunch on the Frontier – Poverty Reduction – With Mark Chamberlain
Listen to Mark Chamberlain speak about poverty reduction strategies here. (62 minutes)
Private Water Management Helps The Poor
Only five percent of global water management today is private. It is governments who mismanage and misallocate water to farmers and other special interests, as well as the politically connected, especially in poor countries. Not only does public ownership and management of water resources harm the poor, it also harms the environment by encouraging waste.
“Living Wage” Promises Small Benefits at a High Cost
Calgary recently implemented a “living wage” policy though applied it to no one for now, probably because many of the potential beneficiaries of a living wage may not be in poverty to begin with.
“Irrefutable” Facts on Poverty from the United Kingdom
Frontier Centre Research Director Mark Milke interviews former United Kingdom Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith on anti-poverty initiatives from his Centre For Social Justice. The causes of poverty and remedies might surprise those on both sides of the ideological spectrum.
West Coast Cities Hit Worldwide ‘Most Unaffordable’ List
The cost of buying a home in Canada contrasts significantly from coast to coast, with some of the world’s least affordable cities on the West Coast, while some markets in Eastern Canada remain relatively inexpensive, according to a survey of cities worldwide released yesterday.
Still a ‘Severely Unaffordable’ City
House prices may have dropped but that didn't save Kelowna from earning the dubious distinction of one of the most severely unaffordable markets worldwide for the second year running. Kelowna was ranked the 19th most severely unaffordable city, and was nestled between...
What is Poverty – With David Seymour
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