During the cantankerous September 29 presidential “debate,” candidate Joe Biden proclaimed “I am the Democratic Party.” He is in charge, he insisted, and his views will be Democrat policy. Others aren’t so sure – about that, about what his views actually are, or about...
The federal government can make a policy change to reflect treaty annuities modernization but it will not likely do this on its own. It would fall on an opposition party to introduce a private member’s public bill, such as this one, to reflect a policy change from...
For the past 90 years, Canadian politics has been influenced by the presence of a genuinely left-wing political party. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) emerged in 1933 demanding nationalization of essential industries, universal public pensions, health...
WINNIPEG, MB, October 27, 2020 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just published and released a new short-book: Extremist Opportunism in the COVID Economy by Jack Buckby; a research associate with the Frontier Centre, and a British author of several books on...
Three concurrent and independent elements are preventing Alberta from deriving the full potential out of its energy resources. It is generally said that good things come in sets of three. The Latin expression "omne trium perfectum" conveys the idea that things that...
Honest, evidence-based climate models could avoid trillions of dollars in policy blunders President Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force presented some frightening numbers during their March 31 White House briefing. Based on now 2-week-old data and models, as...
A Happy New Year for Manitobans would entail reducing the burden of their oversized public sector, a policy reform that over time would pay enormous dividends, as it did in Ireland.
A history lesson on how the Canadian Wheat Board came into existence shows that its purpose was never to obtain higher prices for farmers, who never had any say over the 1943 imposition of its monopoly power.
Adrian Measner fired, Greg Arason named interim replacement .
Ag Policy Fellow Rolf Penner responds to letter demanding proof the Wheat Board does not generate extra returns for farmers
Have some spare time in the following weeks? Why not settle down with a good book. Enjoy!
Most Canadians, educated in government-run schools, informed by publicly funded media, and taxed to the breaking point, are sure that massive state power and omnipresent government are the Canadian way. A Nation of Serfs? will astonish and anger readers with this...
If consumers had better access to information about their health and how to navigate the health-care system, they would be capable of addressing the inequalities and malfunctions of today. The Health Consumer Index gives consumers this information so they can make informed decisions about their health care.
The University of Manitoba’s widely published yet arguably most unknown Professor discusses energy, conservation, alternative fuels, Kyoto and more.
Frontier’s book review of Mark Steyn’s America Alone