This morning the Frontier Centre held a breakfast in Regina with Linda West as a guest speaker.
Workplace
The Trials of a Democratic Reformer: In California’s capital, union officials ‘walk around like they’re God.’ This pro-labor former legislator wants to bring them back to earth.
Former Los Angeles Lakers Coach Phil Jackson once referred to Sacramento as a “cowtown,” but Gloria Romero, a pro-labor Democrat who served as California’s Senate majority leader from 2001 to 2008, takes exception to the belittling description. The capitol building in Sacramento, she says, has “the eighth most powerful economy in the world under that dome,” and it operates not unlike other wealthy kleptocracies. “There’s no other way to say it politely. It’s owned.”
Ontario’s Tories take on the Unions — and It’s About Time
Recently the Toronto Star has been entertaining its readers with a series of stories on how work gets done at the Toronto District School Board: $143 to install a pencil sharpener, $2,900 to install an electrical outlet, that kind of thing.
Autoworkers Off Base
The CAW has to go all in to drive productivity growth instead of attempting to impede it.
Featured News
The Man who Saved the Plains Indians
At the time of Confederation, Canada’s Plains Indians were in a desperate situation. The same European-introduced guns and horses that resulted in a briefly glorious golden age for them had also resulted in constant inter-tribal warfare and the rapid disappearance of...
Renewed Talk of Abolishing the Indian Act
Political attacks on the Indian Act are back in the news, and that is a good thing. However, Canadian politicians, including First Nation politicians, need a credible plan about what to do before we pull out the champagne. Attacking the Indian Act is not a big deal...
Brian Lee Crowley, Founding President of AIMS, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
Frontier Conversation with the author of Fearful Symmetry – the Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values and what the future holds for Canada’s labour market.
Rapid Use of Technology and Telecommuting – With Wendell Cox
Corus Radio
Improving Quality of Life Through Telecommuting
Senior Fellow Wendell Cox, an international transportation expert, finds that in Canada, Saskatoon has more telecommuters than any other metropolitan area as a percentage of its working-age population, at 1.5%. Next in line are Vancouver and Edmonton tied at 1.1%.
Canada’s Returning To Her Real Roots
From time to time I like to imagine that I deeply understand our country. And then I encounter a book like Brian Lee Crowley’s Fearful Symmetry, and come face to face with the great gaping holes in my education.
The Green-Jobs Engine That Can’t
If green-job claim sounds too good to be true, it’s because they are.
The Next Wave of E-Government
When it comes to digital transformation, governments must lead by example. When practical, state and local government should be early adopters of new technology instead of relying on industry to lead the way.
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Canada has done more than survive this financial crisis. The country is positively thriving in it. Canadian banks are well capitalized and poised to take advantage of opportunities that American and European banks cannot seize.
The Next Team
What would you call a group of economists who are skeptical of regulating mortgage markets, who think unemployment insurance and unions increase unemployment, who say that tax hikes retard economic growth, and who believe that the recovery from the Great Depression was a monetary phenomenon rather than the result of New Deal fiscal policy? No, it is not a right-wing cabal. It’s Team Obama.
Opening Up Winnipeg’s Taxi Monopoly (Proulx)
A proposal to increase the number of taxis in Winnipeg through a proposed taxi co-op.