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In Praise Of Sprawl
Urban growth restrictions are the real reason housing is too scarce and too dear, writes property industry researcher Rob Burgess. Delayed decision-making, bureaucratic dithering, and the stubborn resistance of NIMBYs have all been frequently cited as...
Leaders on the Frontier – Grave Error – With Frances Widdowson
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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...
The Solution to our Government-Induced Malaise
Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when they listened to Argentinian President Milei promoting free market capitalism, the Davosies’ applause was more than...
Twelve Years Of Labour In Alberta: A Tale Of Three Political Eras
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Airbnb, VRBO: Scapegoats for Failing Government Housing Policies
The tourist-oriented city of Kelowna, British Columbia, has self-destructively voted to prohibit any new short-term rentals in residences. Even the provincial government is not as draconian, giving dispensation to resort and tourist destinations. Nationally, the...
The WEF Wants To Build Trust–Good Luck With That
“Rebuilding trust” was the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum gathering in Davos. It is as compelling as “Put lipstick on this pig” or “Be slick enough to fool the public” or “Make subjugation look like freedom.” You can’t build trust in an institution that...
“Harm Reduction” is Killing B.C.’s Addicts – There’s a Better Way
Almost as many Canadians have been lost to drug overdoses in the last seven years as were killed in combat throughout the Second World War. Yet governments, health care professionals and addiction experts continue to quarrel over virtually every aspect of the opioid...
Wab Faces Test Over Manitoba’s Mining Future
Premier Wab Kinew is at a crossroads: he must decide whether to align with Manitobans seeking prosperity or with the zero-growth green activists prevalent in his party. This decision is crucial in shaping Manitoba's future as a mining leader. It was not so long ago in...
Graham Lane: ESG Doctrine and Why It Should not be Adopted in Professional Organizations – A Letter to CPA Manitoba
The following introductory comments by Ian Madsen, Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Centre for Public Policy provide background on Graham Lane whose attached letter to CPA Manitoba strongly criticizes that organization’s embrace of ESG. Graham Lane is a retired CA and...
How to Kill a Country
Much of Seoul is a sea of high-rises. And not just Seoul: Busan and other cities in South Korea have lots of high rises. More than half of all South Korean households live in high rises, and well over 60 percent live in some kind of multifamily housing. South Korea...
Premier Wants to Solve Problem Caused by Regulations with More Regulations
Excessive government regulations and land use restrictions are the most documented drivers in our housing affordability crisis right now. So, why, pray tell, is Premier Wab Kinew thinking of adding more regulations to fix a problem caused by excessive regulations? It...