The Manitoba government has announced it will be restoring the 1:1 apprentice-to-journeyperson ratio, ostensibly to promote safety and better training in the province. A past government set a 1:1 ratio after a well-publicized death of a worker at an...
National Citizens Inquiry
An analysis of Alberta’s labour market highlights how political leadership shaped (and hurt) its economic environment
National Citizens Inquiry
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...
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...
After more than two weeks of shutting down virtually all federal government services, 120,000 of the picketing workers returned to work just recently. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) walkout had been brewing since last fall, when PSAC president Chris...
ESG ideology has interventionists and self-proclaimed ‘activists’ asserting both control over corporate decision-making and investment and divestment decisions of institutional investors. Betwixt Environment and Governance, the ‘S’ criteria represent social factors...
https://rumble.com/embed/v1m5vc1/?pub=1u06to In this episode Constitutional Lawyer Leighton Grey and Frontier senior fellow Brian Giesbrecht have a conversation about the systemic racism problem, how woke ideologies are creating more problems than good, and...
Statistics Canada reports that remote work reached a pandemic era recently. “Since the onset of the pandemic, the Labour Force Survey has been tracking the proportion of non-absent workers who worked from home. During the week of January 9 to 15, more than 4 in 10...
Proposals for increased government regulation and unionization raise the question: can workers across the economy be helped by legislative fiat and by increasing the power of labour unions? The answer, quickly obtained from basic economic principles and a brief survey...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new research paper, Against the Minimum Wage. This research paper is authored by Matthew Lau, a research associate with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper reviews the negative effects of rising...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released The Creative Destruction of the Sharing Economy by Lee Harding, a research associate with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper examines the creative destruction that the sharing economy is having on...
The World Bank just issued its annual ‘Ease of Doing Business’ report for 190 countries and territories. Again, Canada was not near the top. It was 18th. Small New Zealand was first, Singapore was 2nd, and Denmark was 3rd. Even our main trading partner, the US, was...
Labour laws in Canada are supposed to protect workers from exploitation and ensure their safety, but they are not always helping teenagers who are entering the workforce for the first time. Most provinces require that anyone younger than 16 or 14 obtain a permit to...