How leftist are Canadian universities? The answer is “very.” This was confirmed in the last in-depth study on the matter. Even though the study is somewhat dated, nearly every piece of data and less methodological approaches have shown the same thing. Canada’s...
There’s a television series called First Contact that’s put out by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, and recently broadcast by TV Ontario. The series takes a few people who have had little or no contact with Indigenous people on a tour of Indigenous...
Canada’s Triple A credit rating was downgraded a notch to AA by Fitch Rating on June 24th. Sadly, it’s no surprise - expect more downgrades as politicians stumble over each other to throw borrowed (and printed) money at the victims of their unwise COVID-19 virus...
The reports about nursing home deaths keep getting worse. Thousands of parents and grandparents have died before their time because of our collective negligence. At the same time, our decision to lock down has economic consequences that will hurt us for generations....
For standards of living to grow, productivity growth must be strong and continually renewed. That is one notion that nearly all economists can agree on. So, it is not surprising that politicians scramble to discover new or not-so-new ways to boost productivity growth....
Behavioural psychologist Robert Epstein believes Google can and does influence voters and that research teams in Canada and elsewhere need to monitor how users are being swayed. Epstein, the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of the American...
We’re still in the middle of the transition from a world of persistent inflation to one of persistent deflation. The transformation will affect how we look at the world, what public policies we argue about, the innovations we marvel at, and the quality of everyday life.
Defenders of supply management who contend that the policy enhances food safety are wrong.
Government policy restricts the supply of daycare – that’s why we have a “crisis”
The Cleveland voucher decision allows the last big civil rights battle- to give poor minority kids good schools – to begin in earnest
A Frontier interview with Author and Education Reformer Mark Holmes
Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist unleashes the city with innovative policy not more federal subsidies
New Zealand’s mixed member proportion system turns out to be a nightmare..
What does one of the world’s most prominent economists, a man whose pioneering work in the 1950s made him the father of equalization programs, think about them today?
An interview with former top NDP strategist Les Campbell, who was former NDP leader Audrey McGlaughlin’s policy advisor…