The Biden administration’s quick cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit came as no surprise. It was a marker for his party’s climate progressives who fervently believe that conventional hydrocarbons are warming the planet, bringing on a “climate emergency”...
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Defund the Police? How About We Defund the Universities.
Our universities have nurtured and foisted on America and Canada an extreme radicalism that vilifies American and Canadian history, society, and culture. This radicalism stems in the first instance from identity grievance studies programs, such as feminist and gender...
Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Is Political Clamoring Helpful or Harmful?
Caught between a rock and a hard place. This best sums up the position that the UCP government recently found itself in as it announced new, stricter lockdown measures for Christmas across the province of Alberta. The government is attempting to “bend” the rising...
A Cure Worse than the Disease
Despite the relentless media drum-banging around the alarmist Covid narrative, this particular virus is not the Black Death. Official numbers have the Canadian death count so far just below 11,000, bad for sure, but not hugely off the yearly flu toll in Canada which...
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Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
Leaders on the Frontier | So Much More We Can Be with the Hon. Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan 1982-1991
The April 1982 Saskatchewan election proved to be a major turning point in the province's history. Over its nine years in office, the Devine government commenced and completed numerous policy initiatives in spite of considerable challenges including two recessions. ...
Edmonton’s High-Performance Public Schools
A tale of two school boards with opposite approaches to diversity and administration.
Equalization: Welfare Trap or Helping Hand
Brian Lee Crowley, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, leads a seminar on equalization policy in Winnipeg, April 21, 2005.
The Help that Hurts
The President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Brian Lee Crowley discusses how equalization harms Saskatchewan in a Frontier Centre speech in Regina, April 20, 2005
The Digital Hospital
Hospital spending on information technology is expected to climb to $30.5 billion next year, from $25.8 billion in 2004,
Railing Against Cars
Nick Ternette blasts Frontier Centre’s critique of light rail transit. This includes FCPP’s response.
Province Should Pay School Tab
Manitoba could make its public schools more affordable with a smarter model that eliminates school boards.
Transit Blasphemies Feedback
Centre feedback on transit and light rail featuring response by Randal O’Toole
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.
Reduced School Taxes KAP Victory
The Government of Manitoba has reduced the education tax levels on farmland.