COVID lockdown measures are opening the door to extremists, not just because people are spending more time on the internet at home, but because of the huge impact lockdown had on the economy and employment. The effect has been seen globally, with low-wage workers...
WINNIPEG, MB, December - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Continually Bleeding Cash: A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre. This...
“The Google of today is a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet,” reads the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against the tech giant. The document filed October 20, 2020, alleges the search engine company has used exclusionary agreements to block out competitors. By...
Despite the relentless media drum-banging around the alarmist Covid narrative, this particular virus is not the Black Death. Official numbers have the Canadian death count so far just below 11,000, bad for sure, but not hugely off the yearly flu toll in Canada which...
Of late, it has been remarked that most of the active ingredients for key pharmaceuticals in North America come from abroad - usually from China; in the case of generics, often from India. In turn, India often imports its key ingredients from China. So, diverting...
In his paper “Successful Integration Experiences From Around the World”, Joseph Quesnel examines the response of three diverse countries to the economic and social challenges facing their Indigenous populations: Mexico with its Meso-American peoples, the Japanese with...
Auckland has a long tradition of making wrong decisions about public transport and several recent announcements indicate we are maintaining this tradition. Auckland is not entering new or unknown territory. A multitude of cities overseas have explored diverse...
Part A of a three part written presentation to the Annual Land Transport Summit, 2007
A chilling look at the “sustainable city” Halle-Neustadt, is a bedroom community built between 1964 and 1990 for about 100,000 people on the outskirts of the manufacturing city of Halle, in East Germany.
Commerce Select Committee to hold an enquiry into Housing Affordability
In recent times we need to ask why Smart Growth carried the day for so long
For many centuries, the Anglo-American tradition has emphasized the fiduciary duty of all those who manage other people’s assets and affairs, such as trustees and directors. This fiduciary duty imposes a higher duty of care on such people, than on the ordinary person....
Manitoba’s “Framework” for transferring power from Ottawa to First Nations has met with an ignominious and well-deserved collapse. The people don’t trust the process.
Many Canadian cities now house “infusion clinics,” where individuals can bypass bureaucrats and purchase promising IV treatments out of their own pockets.
It is by challenging one of Canada’s defining programs, however, one from which Manitoba is a primary beneficiary, that the contrariness of the FCPP is most remarkable.