If the USA's current electoral situation is still in turmoil, the Biden presidency seems to act. With the return of the democrats at the White House, there will be changes in the US foreign policy. Canada, as the third US trade partner, will be impacted. The Trump...
Today Canadians coast to coast are left shocked, disappointed, and ashamed of their federal police service. The RCMP has had a history of problems going back decades, and now there are at least 2,300 women, so far, who have been betrayed, abused, and victimized, not...
Governments continue to mismanage publicly owned utilities, from East to the West. Newfoundland and Labrador’s government, still reeling from a 1969 agreement providing Churchill Falls’ electricity to Quebec at meagre prices (to 2041), built another utility...
Among the many races the pandemic has accelerated, none is so pointless as the issuance of central-bank digital currencies (CBDC). The Canadian government, which should know better, has jumped into the fray against its own earlier opinion. Reversing comments made in...
GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS FROM THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY Climate closely correlates with solar activity accounting for 80% of the trend over a 150-year period unlike C02. April 2020 over the Canadian prairies was the third coldest since 1985 averaging 3°C below...
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...
A new report* released Monday December 3rd, produced by 41 institutes from around the world, concludes: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the coming two decades is not a cost-effective way to address climate change. Deaths from climate related natural disasters have...
Newspaper Edmonton Journal - November 27, 2007 The Windsor Star - November 28, 2007 Vancouver Sun - November 28, 2007 The Montreal Gazette - November 28, 2007 The Halifax Daily News - November 29, 2007 Windsor Star - November 29, 2007 The Montreal Gazette - November...
It’s time to celebrate Sir Roger for his courage and pragmatic, if dramatic, policy leadership. “I don’t put labels on anything,” is a clue to why he was able to dance across the political spectrum and trample stereotypical expectations.
An interview with policy visionary and Frontier Policy Advisory Board member Sir Roger Douglas from New Zealand.
PowerPoint slides from the Meeting for Policy Experts presentation with Larry Mitchell, Local Government Performance Analyst from New Zealand on November 28, 2007 in Halifax at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies.
Full accrual accounting, world-class asset management and robust public disclosure cannot come fast enough to Canada’s cities.
PowerPoint slides from the Breafast on the Frontier presentation with Dr. Jon Gerrard, Manitoba Leader of the Liberal Party, on November 7, 2007.
Individual one page city financial performance summaries from the 2007 Local Government Performance Index, released November 27th, 2007.
The Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change, of which the Frontier is a member, releases a report on global warming.