Back in 2018, the world watched as United States Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh was subjected to one those most politicized public trials in recent history. Many believed that sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford was manipulated for partisan...
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Trans Mountain and Duty to Consult
The decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to dismiss the latest challenge by Indigenous groups over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project should not come as a surprise. It was a predictable outcome in a line of successive rulings that Trans Mountain had met...
In the New COVID World Canada Should Shore up its Domestic Zinc Supply
Many do not know this, but zinc is an important ingredient in disinfectants, such as soap. So, in a sense, zinc is playing an important role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 as many Canadians use disinfectants containing zinc. After all, the twin pillars of...
Fracking and the Duty to Consult
When we start discussing the inevitable economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick should lift restrictions on natural gas fracking. Natural gas prices are at lows, but that will not stay the case forever. Energy industry...
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Supply Chain Strains Could Cause Shortages and Hoarding
Supply chain problems, both international and domestic, could create shortages and hoarding, and make recent inflationary pressures even worse. Although problems with our ports and railways may beg policy solutions, the short-term response of everyday Canadians should...
New Book: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
CALGARY, AB, December 17, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis written by Susan Martinuk. Susan is an accomplished, nationally recognized researcher and writer who has...
Populism – The Orphan Child of Democracy
Modern democracy is the crucible in which conflicts, grievances, rights, privileges, and power have been melded to produce a period of unprecedented peace following World War II, a period that gave rise to capitalism, to globalization, and to the vision of a global...
Cut Expensive Housing Regulations to Preserve the Middle Class
Last year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published research showing that the middle-class is shrinking throughout the developed world. In Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle-Class, OECD emphasized that the threat to the middle-class...
A Look at Demographia’s Latest Housing Affordability Survey
Hites Ahir: You recently released the 16th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2020. Tell us about the housing affordability measure used in the survey. Wendell Cox: Demographia uses the “median multiple,” which is the median house price...
Stakeholder Capitalism’s Sleight of Hand
The Trojan horse of social engineers has crossed the gates. At the latest World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the Davos Manifesto 2020 replaced the original from 1973. The new one lays down a company’s duties towards “stakeholders” rather than shareholders. This...
The Tesla Disruption: Cab Drivers Beware!
The free market economy is beautiful in its simplicity: offer a service people want at a price people will pay for, and you will get your reward. For decades, cab drivers offered what buses could not—a ride on request from any location to anywhere else in a reasonable...
Taking Control of the English Language
If you are an activist who wants to persuade your fellow citizens of the correctness of your views, the first thing you should do is take control of the English language. Change the meanings of words so that your enemies can be accused of any crime and your side can...
Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932-1933 : report to Congress / Commission on the Ukraine Famine
Based on testimony heard and staff research, the Commission on the Ukraine Famine makes the following findings: 1) There is no doubt that large numbers of inhabitants of the Ukrainian SSR and the North Caucasus Territory starved to death in a man-made famine in...
The More the Green Crusade Changes, the More It Remains the Same
The notion that an ever growing and/or wealthier population can only deliver environmental doom has been the standard foundational belief of the modern environmental movement. The latest variation on this theme was arguably best summed up over a decade ago by business...
What Your Sons and Daughters Will Learn at University
Universities in the 20th century were dedicated to the advancement of knowledge. Scholarship and research were pursued, and diverse opinions were exchanged and argued in the “marketplace of ideas.” This is no longer the case. Particularly in the social sciences,...