If some petitioners get their way, Cecil Rhodes School will be no more. To be more precise, the Winnipeg school would still exist, but under a new name. No doubt most Manitobans who hear about this have one burning question: Who is Cecil Rhodes? Cecil Rhodes was a...
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The Unraveling of American Policing
The current wave of protests in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and across the United States is just another in a lengthy list of protests against police misconduct. The list is long: Rodney King incident in Los Angeles (1991); Abner Louima a...
The Workers’ Union Disadvantage
A recent story covered in The Monitor – a magazine published by the left-wing, union-friendly think tank Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – provides an important lesson in basic economics. The headline of the story triumphantly proclaimed: “Gig workers win the...
Meeting the Terawatt Challenge
In his latest seminal book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, Austin, Texas-based energy analyst and futurist Robert Bryce declares that “electricity has become a human right.” It’s not an “endowed by our Creator” human right, nor one...
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The Coming war on the Elderly
The Great Plague of 2020 has revealed some interesting things about Western societies’ attitudes toward old people. In Italy, the shortage of medical equipment to treat patients suffering from the coronavirus has led to hospitals ruling that anyone over the age of 60...
The only Thing we have to fear is fear Itself
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those were the famous words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, spoken at his first inauguration on March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Unemployment had hit 25 percent and there was panic in the land....
Whitehall’s Last Colonies
The transfer payment system in Britain is causing a pattern of inequities, as richer regions subsidize large public sectors and economic malaise in poorer parts of the country.
A Toll on the Common Man
On average, a 1% increase in the corporate-tax rate is associated with a 0.8% drop in wages over the next five years.
We Solve More Problems Than We Create
Mr. Lomborg is a realist. He doesn’t expect miracles from political leaders and bureaucrats, hoping instead for “getting it slightly less wrong.” An appropriately modest proposal from the skeptical environmentalist
Dual Market Denial
Ending the Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly and competition would not mean its demise. To believe that is to ignore history.
The Flypaper Effect
This paper jointly published by Halifax’s Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Frontier Centre demonstrates that equalization subsidies simply inflate the size of the recipient province’s public sectors, more government personnel with higher salaries, at the cost of more effective public services.
Do We Over-Equalize?
Making the case for a needs-based approach to equalization to prevent over subsidizing recipient provinces in the goal of providing “reasonable” levels of public services.
Charitable Giving In Canada
The claim that taxes might come down if Canadians increased private donations has it backwards. We can’t give more because we’re not left with enough disposable income to do that.
Deal or No Deal? WTO Deadline Nears
Where’s Howie Mandel when we really need him? Canada should abandon its misguided position and take the WTO deal before it’s too late.
An Official Response to the Aboriginal Governance Index
Did the Frontier Centre disrespect aboriginal leaders when it surveyed Indian reservations, because it didn’t follow “appropriate protocols”?