Human ingenuity – often motivated by profit – is generally miles ahead of government regulations in resolving problems in society. Take, for example, the issue of orphan wells in Alberta. In September 2016, the Alberta Energy Regulator said there were 84,100 inactive...
Islam is difficult for Westerners to understand because we view it through our own cultural categories. Our categories have been formed by the post-Enlightenment and post-industrial revolution in the West. Modern Western society has been organized on the basis of...
Academic merit results from the successful performance of intellectual tasks by individuals. But individuals are no longer considered valid units of evaluation in Canadian universities; only collective characteristics are now considered important: gender, sexual...
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...
Earlier this year, a group called Equity Matters asked the province to establish an education equity secretariat. They want this office to oversee equity officers working in Manitoba schools. Equity Matters wants to ensure that all Manitoba students are reflected in...
Frances Widdowson probably isn't someone most Canadians recognize. I'm here to tell you why they should. In terms of Canada's intellectual culture, Frances Widdowson matters because she is a classic and prolific academic. In a time when demagoguery easily flourishes,...
Canada should fight against the imposition of stifling new regulations on bioprospecting.
Hospital spending on information technology is expected to climb to $30.5 billion next year, from $25.8 billion in 2004,
Bill Gates offers practical advice on life, in spite of our schools.
Centre feedback on transit and light rail featuring response by Randal O’Toole
It was James Q Wilson’s now legendary “broken windows” hypothesis which stated that when a neighbourhood, or a city, had become rundown and uncared-for – when its buildings and trains were covered in graffiti, its streets strewn with rubbish, and its youth allowed to indulge in flagrant displays of delinquent bravado – a climate was created in which serious crimes such as murder and robbery could run amok.
A distinguished group of climatologists disputes alarms about manmade global warming.
If governments are serious about fair and free elections in aboriginal communities, they must be prepared to use sanctions.
Ontario is dumping its Taxpayer Protection and Balanced Budget Act, but in Colorado a tougher law is conferring great benefits.
Tim Ball, a retired University of Winnipeg geography professor and environmental consultant decries lack of balance in climate change discussion.