The StarPhoenix editorial Think tank lacks thought (SP, Jan. 27) about the Frontier Centre's Responsible Budgeting project explained that trying to compare the amount of money that a provincial government spends on health care or housing to the amount spent by the...
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If Sask. was a typical family …
Joe Couture, The StarPhoenix, January 23, 2014 A new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy tries to make government budget numbers easier to understand by scaling them down to the size of an average household’s finances. “People have a very tough time...
Who would buy Manitoba Hydro?
As the next election approaches, Manitoba's NDP government will likely try to scare the public by trotting out its favourite hoary old political chestnut -- privatization. The NDP will increasingly accuse the opposition of "dark plans" to privatize Manitoba Hydro,...
1st Annual Responsible Budgeting Report
Responsible Budgeting is a new project by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy aimed at giving citizens a broader understanding of how provincial and territorial governments receive and spend money in relatable terms. In a time when many governments are hard-pressed...
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Ottawa Must Speak for All Sectors in All Regions
If only Ottawa would put its full force and support behind the energy sector as it does other critical sectors in the economy. In early October, the prime minister announced that he would not back down from the latest American round of attacks on our softwood lumber...
What to Do with a Pirate State
For centuries, Arab states across North Africa made fortunes from piracy. Raiding the coasts of Spain and Italy, scouring the Mediterranean, and ravaging into the Atlantic as far as Iceland, Barbary corsairs captured over a million Christian prisoners for their slave...
Fevered Dreams
Who says the car isn’t a better way to get around?
Feeding the Giant Patronage Machine
The truth about foreign aid: For more than half a century, it has been either ineffective or counterproductive in stimulating prosperity.
Randal O’Toole, Author of The Vanishing Automobile
If Winnipeg wants to spend a lot of money with very little in return, light rail transit is the answer.
The Importance of the WTO Negotiations
Ottawa’s full attention to trade issues is crucial the Prairie economy.
Top of the Flops
THE best police forces in Britain are up to four times more likely to catch criminals than the worst. New “performance indicators” for area divisions show an alarming variation in detection rates.
DeSmedt’s Amalgamation Folly
The City of Winnipeg should be eager to sell services to surrounding muncipalities, not eager to gobble them up based on the false dogma of amalgamation.
Pork Barrel Protectionism Report
Policy paper 24 explores why recent hog tariffs imposed by the United States are about protectionism and explains why Canada should aggressively pursue the case under free trade rules, and work to eliminate the possibility of such nuisance actions in all export commodities.
Global Cooling and Canadian Agriculture
Environment Canada has taken a single scientifically unjustified position on climate change. Logic almost dictates we should plan for cooling. We can adjust to warming with techniques practiced to the south, but nobody is farming north of us.
Free-Market Environmentalism Works
It’s time to challenge the advocates of state planning and recapture the environment issue through market friendly approaches.