Over the past week, media across the world have proclaimed 2020 a record year for hurricanes in the North Atlantic. The culprit? Man-made climate change, of course. But this is a mistake, not only because the “records” are misleading but also because the causes of...
If Christopher Sarlo is right, Canada’s Federal Child Support Guidelines are wrong. The economics professor at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario made an in-depth analysis on the basis for the Guidelines and found them wanting. His 100-page examination leads...
There is a revolution coming in geothermal energy. How big it will be and how fast it can grow remains to be seen, but the revolutionary technology is here now. We already know about the new technology by name — fracking. But that is fracking for oil and gas, the...
In recent days, Toronto Dominion Bank announced that it will not loan money towards any oil and gas or related development in the Arctic. While this may elicit joy from the woke anti-fossil fuel global warmists, this was, in reality, a very easy decision for TD, and...
Amidst the pandemic, the federal government has just given Canadians an extra month to file their taxes (the new deadline is June 1). As people prepare their tax returns, some might wonder if they are getting good value for all the taxes they pay. The answer is that...
"In the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the problem of economically unsustainable outports, far from medical care and employment has been met by resettling the inhabitants in urban centres where hospitals, schools, and jobs are more readily available. This has...
People spend more on their house pets than on daycare.
There is no housing shortage on the 13,000-hectare Osoyoos reserve, tucked deep in B.C.'s bone-dry interior. Nor are there any apparent signs of poverty. In fact, some of the fanciest facilities in this corner of the Okanagan Valley are on band land. The Osoyoos...
The Frontier Centre, in partnership with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies in Halifax, presents an AIMS study rating the 2006/07 budget performance of the western provinces and Ontario ranking fiscal health, budget transparency and budget impacts.
Despite all the evidence that rent control harms those who can least afford it, the common remedies of rent control and restrictions on condo conversions, more like the cold wind than the warm sun, are oozing their way back onto the political agenda.
How banning grey water septic fields produced more raw sewage spills in cottage country.
The Canadian Wheat Board model has inadvertently cancelled vast opportunities in the higher end, value added part of the agriculture sector.
It’s no surprise that a new study of halfa-dozen rich countries’ health systems shows the U.S. leading the pack on costs, but dead last on results. It has been the same story for three years running in a series of studies by the Cumberland Fund. And plenty of other...
Fuzzy thinking and heated politics surround the latest near-death experience of the Canadian Wheat Board. In a Federal Court decision last week, Madame Justice Dolores Hansen ruled the government could not exclude barley from CWB control by changing the regulations...
Martians and earthlings should scratch their heads on evolving alien policy contraptions being clapped together by premiers.