One thing we’ve learned this year is that global pandemics have a big impact on teaching and learning. Since mid-March, regular K-12 classes have been suspended and instruction has moved online. While schools will partially reopen in June, this does not mean things...
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From the Fiscal COVID Collapse – A Roadmap for Rebuilding Manitoba Public Policy
Canada’s Triple A credit rating was downgraded a notch to AA by Fitch Rating on June 24th. Sadly, it’s no surprise - expect more downgrades as politicians stumble over each other to throw borrowed (and printed) money at the victims of their unwise COVID-19 virus...
How Universities Inject Toxic Anti-Americanism Into Students
Behind the anti-American hate seen in the current rioting, arson, and looting is the long term undermining of America carried out systematically in our universities. Various social movements—the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, the feminist movement from the...
No-Fault Insurance in Alberta?
In these times when everyone’s attention seems to be riveted on COVID-19, it is important to remember that there are still bad policy ideas that have some chance of becoming legislation in the not too distant future. The Alberta government recently convened an expert...
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Rising Unemployment Poses a Threat to CMHC, Mortgage Insurer to High-Risk Home Buyers
The shutdowns ordered by governments in Canada to slow the spread of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus have caused unemployment to leap. Most of the millions of workers laid off thus far have been low- and lower-middle-income wage earners, just the sort of people who may...
Pandemic Lockdown: Are We Just Delaying the Inevitable?
Most Western countries have been in lockdown for more than a month to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Schools have been emptied and all businesses deemed nonessential have been closed by government order. This is an enormously expensive strategy. Our...
Alligator Eats A Crow
Ag Policy Fellow Rolf Penners eats a Crow
B.C. First, Manitoba Last in Western Canada Tax Reduction Derby
Since 1999, all Canadian jurisdictions have experienced declining tax loads. The most dramatic reductions have been in B.C. and Alberta, followed by Saskatchewan. Manitoba’s reductions have been the least aggressive in the region, and have declined by only a third of B.C.’s reductions and by less than half of Alberta’s.
Harry’s Policy Manifesto
Powerpoint slides from Lunch on the Frontier presentation by Rev. Harry Lehotsky, New Life Ministries, Winnipeg – June 19, 2006
The Pride of Edmonton
Across the United States, school districts are emulating the Edmonton Public School Board’s model of school-based management, diversity and choice.
Measuring Governance on First Nations
Good people sometimes stuck in bad situations. That’s what surveyers found on Manitoba’s First Nations.
Global Warming will Benefit Canada
A warmer Canada would improve our lives in several ways too numerous to list. Global warming? Let’s hope so.
Aboriginal Governance Index – 2006-2007
How well are Manitoba’s First Nations governed? A groundbreaking Index ranks them according to what their own people think.
Aboriginal Governance Index Ranks First Nations
Today the Frontier Centre released its Aboriginal Governance Index, A Ranking of Manitoba’s First Nations. The Index scores all but four of Manitoba’s First Nations in terms of the quality of their governance, and was compiled by means of house-to-house interviews conducted over last fall, this winter and spring.
New Urbanists Offer Disaster Relief
IF you survived Katrina but your house didn't, you might today be living on your lot in a trailer provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). However ignominious, even trashy, these 300 square-foot rectangles on wheels might look, they do offer...