Runaway house price increases have become the rule across Canada. Since 2000, house prices across the country rose more than incomes in all of 35 larger markets, while prices rose more than four times incomes in Toronto and Vancouver. This is in stark contrast to the...
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Canada’s Affluent Middle-Class at Risk
According to The New York Times, Canada now has the most affluent middle-class in the world. This is based on a newspaper study commissioned by LIS, which maintains the Luxembourg Income Study Database. According to The Times “the American middle class, long the...
Livable Vancouver?
Vancouver — along with Melbourne and Vienna — ranks at or near the top of The Economist and Mercer lists of the world’s most livable cities almost every year. These ratings are of justifiable pride to public officials and residents. It may be less...
With education comes opportunity
The federal government has recently shown its willingness to help First Nations education in Manitoba. Ottawa announced it is entering into a partnership with four northern Manitoba First Nations. The Indigenous communities are Bunibonibee Cree Nation (Oxford House),...
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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...
Houston Missed the Real-Estate Boom of East And West Coasts, but Now It’s Payback Time
This sprawling city missed the real-estate boom that sent home prices soaring on the East and West coasts. Now, with much of the nation's housing market in retreat, it has yet to feel even a tremor. In September, local sales of single-family homes and condominiums...
How Alberta’s next premier can lead in health care
Alberta has already proved that responsible public-private competition has helped its education programs now Albertans are asking for the same to be applied to its healthcare programs.
Healthcare Wait Times Longer, Think Tank Says
Hightlights from the annual Fraser Institute study comparing health care wait times for each province.
The American Dream: For 300 Million
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Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway: Death by Design
Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway is outdated in design, un-safe for drivers plus it could bestagnating the economy. What’s holding the provice back from updating it to freeway standards?
The Politics of Sky-High House Prices
High costs, lack of land, the environment and inflation are making new homeowners a thing of the past. Are the current government regulations helping or exacerbating the problem?
Higher Interest Rates And Lack Of Land Fuel The Flame To Just Go Bananas
It is so easy to blame governments – especially when they are, in fact, to blame.
Winnipeg: Streamline Housing Approvals
Restrictive land-use policies are reducing Winnipeg’s significant advantage in home affordability.
A Chinese Lesson for Western Economists
Wei Jie points out that income inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient may worsen as incomes at the lowest levels are increasing — at the same time as the poor are getting richer