Recent analysis by Professor Roy Spencer, meteorologist and principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, shows that Canada's climate is warming at half the rate projected by Environment Canada's Climate Models. He suggests that Canadian...
The Thunder Bay Police Services Board (TBPSB) was disbanded in 2018 after an investigation by Senator Murray Sinclair found the board had failed to deal with the “clear and indisputable pattern” of violence and systemic racism against First Nations people in the...
An Elder Speaks: “Deprive The System Of Its Money And You Empower The Ordinary" “The reason for bringing in this radical change is the imutability of the system and its ability to resist any change over the years and the necessity of doing what they’re now proposing...
The Alberta Premier initially declined to punish members of his party and staff after news of their travel was revealed, pointing out that his government’s pandemic approach to protecting “lives and livelihoods” included the travel sector. The premier said he took...
It has become routine, every morning around 11:15 a.m. EDT thousands of Canadians gather around their television sets to hear the daily national briefing. Closely watching as our national leaders soberly descends down the stairs and step up to the microphone. Citizens...
In the time of the 1918/19 Spanish flu, the world was a very different place. Of course, there was no internet, TVs, or social media. In fact, there wasn’t even any radio until a few years later. All the news was provided by the newspaper - and almost all...
First Nations that are prepared to depoliticize their business decisions are able to deliver better economic outcomes than are those with poor administration.
The strongest predictor of good First Nations governance is transparency. A new Charticle shows that improving transparency is the best way for First Nations to improve the overall welfare of residents.
Like all governments, municipalities have the option of using a number of revenue-raising tools that have different characteristics. We examine, in this Charticle, the use of property taxes versus user charges for the funding of municipal services in 30 Canadian cities. FC038
Frontier’s Local Government Frontiers Project collected various financial data from Canada’s 30th largest cities in 2007. This Charticle presents the levels of taxation imposed collected divided by the number of households counted in each jurisdiction. FC037
Ontario taxpayers still funnel billions of dollars to supposedly needy provinces like Quebec, Manitoba and those in Atlantic Canada.
The second year of the Frontier Centre’s Aboriginal Governance Index ranks governance on 51 Manitoba First Nations and 61 in Saskatchewan based on personal interviews and surveys with band residents by Frontier’s Aboriginal Policy Fellow, Don Sandberg.
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released its 2nd Annual Aboriginal Governance Index, based on a weighted composite of scores evaluating six broad areas of good governance. This year’s index covers 112 Aboriginal communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Frontier’s Aboriginal Policy Fellow Don Sandberg describes the process of polling residents on reserves to obtain a more accurate picture regarding the way in which each community was governed: its elections, administration, human rights, transparency, services and economy.
Skim through the rhetoric on Canadian health care and you’ll quickly encounter a multitude of myths. To detail even a few necessitates some Canada-U.S. comparisons, though there are superior alternatives around the world on insurance, funding and delivery.