The Globe and Mail featured an online discussion between First Nation entrepreneur and lawyer Calvin Helin and Meko Nicholas for the First Nations Land Advisory Board Resource Centre over the contentious issue of Aboriginal property rights....
Poverty
Nestle Chairman Attacks Biofuels
“It is absolutely immoral to push hundreds of millions of people into hunger…”
TAX-TIVISM – Part 1 on the Robin Hood Tax
In this age of constant digital activism through social media, is anyone suspicious as to why there are commercials by charities and foundations, not even by government, trying to sell us on more taxes?
American vs. European Poverty Measures
Relative poverty lines are actually only measurements of inequality, and tell us almost nothing about material deprivation.
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
David Pankratz
Frontier interviews David Pankratz, Director of the Institute for Community Peacebuilding at Canadian Mennonite University, about smarter ways to assist low income Canadians.
4th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
The only international analysis of its kind, the 4th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey expands coverage to 227 markets in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Tax Cut Better Than a Pay Raise for Poor
A report by a Prairie-based accountant and community activist claims that tax cuts help poor people better than raising the minimum wage. David Pankratz's study for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy says that employees have to pay more taxes when the minimum wage...
Why Tax Exemptions Trump Minimum Wage Hikes
Raising the tax free exemptions by $6,000 would be like raising the $9.18 with none of the usual side effects.
Which Best Helps the Poor?
An analysis of why raising tax exemptions is smarter than increasing the minimum wage.
Happy Birthday, Sir Roger
It’s time to celebrate Sir Roger for his courage and pragmatic, if dramatic, policy leadership. “I don’t put labels on anything,” is a clue to why he was able to dance across the political spectrum and trample stereotypical expectations.
Spinning the Poverty Numbers — Again and Again
The LICO is not a poverty measure, and we wish everyone would please stop using it as one, says Statistics Canada.
Poverty Down, Taxes Down, Outrage Up
Never having seen the headquarters of the stridently leftwing and perpetually upset Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, it’s diverting to wonder what it might be like. My own view is that it looks something like the inside of a Second World War Japanese submarine...
Free Market is Not so Free for Consumers
How government policy conspires to rip off Canadian consumers.