Natural gas is in the news. Price increases due to cold weather; the increasing use of gas for electricity generation; a spectacular explosion of a portion of TransCanada's pipeline south of Winnipeg; a call by Pembina Valley for natural gas service for its...
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Conciliatory Approach is best in New AFN-Ottawa Education Pact
A recent announcement on First Nations education proves what can be achieved by First Nations when they work together with government. This past Friday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a historic education announcement, alongside National Chief Shawn Atleo of the...
Islanders should take less, contribute more to EI, other programs
Souris Mayor Dave MacDonald recently told the Premiers’ Council on EI that recent changes to the federal EI program are killing his town. Unfortunately, Mr. MacDonald did not note that Islanders receive three times as much as they contribute to the EI program. This...
Project put big numbers in context
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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The Public Debt of Canada Needs to Be Controlled
Around the world, the economic crisis caused by the restrictions taken to fight COVID-19 has consequently led to an increase in the public debt of the United States. Canada doesn't escape this phenomenon. Based on the IMF's data, Canada's gross debt of the general...
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.
Exporting Manitoba Schools
Manitoba’s public school population is declining. Why not fill the empty spaces with foreign students.
Winnipeg’s Charter School Confusion
Frontier responds to Letters to the Editor in the Winnipeg Free Press criticizing a recent piece on charter schools.