Ben Eisen and Kenneth Green show that high levels of resource consumption in North America enables economic production and wealth creation that brings benefits to people all over the world.
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Media Release – How Economic Activity in North America Benefits People Everywhere: Economic Production and Resource Consumption in Canada and the United States
Ben Eisen and Kenneth Green show that high levels of economic activity and wealth creation in Canada and the United States benefit the people living in those countries, as well as in other parts of the world.
Media Release – Case Studies in Pricing-Based Carbon Controls: The Economic, Environmental and Political Consequences of Carbon Pricing
Eric Merkley, Ben Eisen and Kenneth Green examine the consequences of carbon taxes and cap-and-trade policies.
The Economic, Environmental and Political Consequences of Carbon Pricing: Case Studies in Pricing-Based Carbon Controls
Eric Merkley, Ben Eisen and Kenneth Green examine 8 case studies in carbon pricing from around the world, and assess their economic, environmental and political consequences.
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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...
Vaccination Rollout Reveals Pandemic Politics
The latest guidance for vaccine distribution published by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) shows how horribly politicized Canada’s pandemic response has been. At the very point of administering the “jab of life,” the government can still not play...
COVID-19 is Endemic: What Now?
Recent pronouncements by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggest its view of COVID-19 seems to be evolving from a “pandemic” threat that is novel and spreading, to an “endemic” threat that has established itself as just another new contestant in the vast ecosystem...
Biofuel Subsidies and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The environmental benefits of biofuel subsidies are dubious, and these subsidies have the disastrous unintended consequence of making it harder for the poorest people in the world to feed their families.
Production, Not Destruction, Creates Prosperity
All kinds of bad policy proposals are borne out of the mistaken belief that you can generate prosperity by destroying valuable and useful things so that people have to be employed creating replacements.
Media Release: Frontier Centre releases 2009 Environmental Indicators Index
According to the most important indicators of environmental progress, the condition of Canada’s natural environment is improving, and our natural resources are being sustainably managed.
Ignore the Carolers of Doom
The end of the year features a variety of excesses: people eat too much yummy food, drink too many intoxicating beverages, engage in unseemly displays of lawn, home, and garden kitsch, and in general, try to relax and celebrate the end of a tough year and the promise...
Toxic Plastiphobia
Canadian governments, like many around the world, are once again in the grip of toxic plastiphobia: an irrational, and potentially harmful fear of plastics. Proposals to ban “single-use” plastics (under varying definitions) are all the rage across Canada, where the...
Computer Models, Like “Selfies,” are not Reality
In a recent article about climate change, Seth Borenstein, a science writer with the Associated Press, gave us a master class on how to sell the results of a computer model as if it represents reality. In the Borenstein world, a group of scientists can take a...
Throwing Good Money After Bad?
One of the eternal questions of public policy is: should governments get into bed with private businesses? Whether it is called a Public-Private Partnership, buying a controlling interest for taxpayers, investing in the technologies of tomorrow or just, avoiding a...