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...
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Mandatory Vaccine Bill is Off-Target
New Brunswick’s failed attempt to remove vaccine exemptions sparked a political, ethical, and constitutional controversy. The benefits of the bill were marginal at best, but the heavy-handed tactics governments attempted to use to implement it were even worse. It was...
Indigenous Communities need to be Partners in Canada’s COVID-19 Recovery Plan
It’s easy to forget that at the beginning of the year, Canada was right in the middle of another crisis triggered by a series of protests over a natural gas pipeline being built through northern B.C. The issue of Indigenous reconciliation was front and centre in our...
Systemic Racism
The current Prime Minister recently publicly contradicted RCMP Commissioner, Brenda Lucki, for saying there is no systemic racism within the RCMP. Actually, Lucki said she didn’t know what “systemic racism” is. In her words, “I have to admit, I really struggle with...
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Congestion and User Fees, Someone will Ultimately Pay
Recently, the US state of Oregon has become the latest devotee of a variation of congestion charging; a sort of tax on road use, that is more commonly directed at motorists and commercial vehicle drivers who access the central area of a city, presumably adding to...
Transhumanism is a Post-God Serpent’s Promise
When God dies, so does his morality, and then man rises to take God’s place. Over the past 140 years, people as diverse as Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler, and Ray Kurzweil, have hailed the quest for superhumans. In many ways, the transhumanist movement represents...
The Indian Smoking Debate
It’s bad enough that native leaders pursue exemptions from smoking bans and encourage their people to smoke in band enterprises; but they add insult to injury when they rip off the tax rebates that individual Indians used to enjoy.
Job Growth Keeps Houston Housing Market Strong
Five questions with Houston-based Trendmaker Homes’ President Will Holder about his thoughts on the property market in Houston.
CWB: Keeping Canadian Agriculture Relevant
Many farmers with limited production capacity do not realize the extent to which global trade has changed the way Canada should position itself within world markets.
Optimal Spending Expands Public Revenues
A Happy New Year for Manitobans would entail reducing the burden of their oversized public sector, a policy reform that over time would pay enormous dividends, as it did in Ireland.
Private Capital on Strike in Manitoba
In 2005 Manitoba moved to last place in Canada’s private investment sweepstakes, a spot traditionally held by either New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island.
How the Canadian Wheat Board Acquired its Monopoly Powers
A history lesson on how the Canadian Wheat Board came into existence shows that its purpose was never to obtain higher prices for farmers, who never had any say over the 1943 imposition of its monopoly power.
Strahl Axes CWB Boss
Adrian Measner fired, Greg Arason named interim replacement .
Does the CWB make farmers extra money?
Ag Policy Fellow Rolf Penner responds to letter demanding proof the Wheat Board does not generate extra returns for farmers
Frontier’s Recommended Christmas Books
Have some spare time in the following weeks? Why not settle down with a good book. Enjoy!