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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Supreme Court’s Annapolis Ruling A Win For Property Owners
But the fight for fair compensation over property rights continues
The National Chief of the AFN has Been Ousted. Now What?
It is time to reconsider the purpose of the AFN and how it selects its national chief Many Canadians were shocked to hear that RoseAnne Archibald, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), had been ousted in a vote of non-confidence. Careful...
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Coal – Not Wind – is Keeping Saskatchewan’s Lights On
While it’s not the same minute-by-minute data provided by the Alberta Electric System Operator for their grid, SaskPower has begun breaking down where its power is coming from on a daily basis. And the data from Oct. 3 and 4 showed wind generated an average of just...
57 Policy Proposals for Future Leaders to Help Make the Canadian Economy Soar
Executive Summary The various federal political parties are all promoting the policy agendas they believe will foster a sustainably high quality of life for all Canadians. It remains to be seen whether they will attain the success that they aim to achieve. In some...
Indigenous Governance and Coastal GasLink
Last January, a group of breakaway hereditary chiefs from Wet'suwet'en First Nation in the interior of British Columbia erected a blockade at a remote forestry road in protest of the proposed Coastal Gaslink pipeline to Kitimat, BC. Eventually, the issues were...
The Path Untaken — “Indian Cities” in Canada and the Māori Model
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released The Path Untaken -- “Indian Cities” in Canada and the Māori Model by Joseph Quesnel, a research fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper examines different policies to help economically...
Indigenous Entrepreneurship In Canada
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new research paper, Indigenous Entrepreneurship In Canada. This research paper is authored by Joseph Quesnel, a research fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper shares the stories of 6...
A Diamond of an Opportunity For Northern Manitoba
In early March, the Manitoba Geological Survey and its industry partner, Lynx Consortium, made an important diamond discovery southeast of Thompson. While there is no guarantee the find will lead to a significant mining project, the province should move quickly to...
A Wrongly Placed National Park that will Cost First Nations Jobs
Why is the federal government planning to create a national park on top of potentially lucrative nickel ore deposits? It is a question local indigenous communities in Northern Manitoba that stand to benefit from mineral development are asking. The Manitoba Lowlands...
Attawapiskat’s Bad Habits
Attawapiskat First Nation — an isolated Northern Ontario reserve — played a prominent role in the Idle No More indigenous protest movement that erupted in 2012. Then Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence complained to the media about unacceptable housing conditions on her...
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Staff | Senior Fellows | Research Fellows | Research Associates | Expert Advisory Panel | Board of DirectorsStaffPeter Holle is the founding President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an award-winning western Canadian-based public policy think tank. Since its...
Frontier Centre releases Measuring the Size and Cost of Manitoba’s and Saskatchewan’s Public Sectors
Today the Frontier Centre for Public Policy released a new study documenting how high public sector employment rates in the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan have significant costs to the taxpayers of those provinces. Additional spending on the public sector wage...
Frontier Centre Releases Tapping Into Our Potential: Occupational Freedom and Aboriginal Workers
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy released today Tapping Into Our Potential: Occupational Freedom and Aboriginal Workers. In this policy study, Frontier policy analyst Joseph Quesnel argues that Canada’s Aboriginal peoples represent vast unrealized potential...