ESG investing standards have become all the rage around the world. Big institutional investors and pension funds now race to outdo their competitors in meeting nebulous and politically charged criteria. ESG—which stands for Environment, Social, and Governance—asks...
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Building a 21st Century Transit System for Calgary
Calgary Transit is mired in the past, building an obsolete transit system designed for an archaic view of a city. Before the pandemic, transit carried 45 percent of downtown Calgary employees to work, but less than 10 percent of workers in the rest of the Calgary...
Invest in Roads Not Transit
The jury is still out in Winnipeg: should governments be spending money on roads or more public transit? Well, a new policy brief from the Frontier Centre show that the sooner governments abandon their bias against cars the better. A recent University of Toronto paper...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
4 Years Later
Has the dust settled? Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in many forms: inflation, learning losses, ill-health, high crime, non-functioning government services, broken supply chains, shoddy work, displaced workers, substance...
How ‘Green’ Projects Are Looting the Treasury
The most egregious theft of collective wealth and well-being -- and it is flat-out theft -- is the churn on “alternative” forms of energy production. Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said last week in an interview with Steve Bannon that the U.S. has spent some $7...
Leaders on the Frontier – The Dealers and Deceivers of Data – With Martin Kulldorff
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Canada Wallows on LNG Sidelines, Paralyzed by Ottawa’s Onerous Regulatory System
When it comes to fossil fuels, the world wants what Canada’s got. The problem is, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t care. Fresh proof came with the recent visit of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the first Greek leader to come to Canada in more than 40 years. According to...
Another Year, Another Deficit
Manitoba will run another deficit this year, like most other provinces. When will this end? Two weeks before the Manitoba budget was released, the deficit for the concluding fiscal year was announced at $2 billion. Finance Minister Sala said the former...
We Should Follow New Zealand On Housing And Free Up More Land For Growth
Attempts to contain ‘urban sprawl’ have driven land prices sky-high. It’s time to abandon densification strategies.
DON BRASH: Perhaps The Most Important Speech From The New Government So Far
Last week, Housing Minister Chris Bishop gave perhaps the most important speech by the new Government since the election. In a speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, he said he wanted the ratio of house prices to median household income to more than halve to...
Return to Reason – Leighton Grey interviews Viva Frei
Lawyer and host Leighton Grey Leighton interviews David Freiheit, also known as Viva Frei, and gets to "know the fro" in this authentic and boundary-free conversation! This Canadian lawyer turned podcast sensation dishes about what experiences culminated to launch the...
Canadians are no longer taught to be proud of the history and accomplishments of Canada and Canadians.
Canadians are no longer taught to be proud of the history and accomplishments of Canada and Canadians.