Seven months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, against evidence and common sense, media, elected officials, and health experts continue peddling the panic that gripped them in March. Almost daily, headlines in the first week of October announced new records in...
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Why Indigenous Land Acknowledgments are Harmful to the Public Interest
“... if it was not so serious Espanola’s declaration or whatever it is would be laughable, but it is not alone … So few realize if this .. continues some years from now it will be used in some claim.” -Retired Supreme Court Justice Jack Major. The...
Alberta’s Rising Crime Begs More Policing, Not Less
The year is not yet over, and Calgary has already recorded 26 homicides, six more than in 2019. Edmonton has witnessed a 90 percent spike in assaults with weapons or causing bodily harm. Unbelievably, rather than tackling this escalating violence head-on, officials...
There Really are Limits to Growth: Canadians’ Orthodox Assumptions are Flat-Out Wrong
Two centuries ago, clergyman Thomas Malthus expounded the proposition that population always outruns food supply. He said population increases geometrically while food supply increases, at best, only arithmetically. Half a century ago the Green Revolution, enabling...
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Canada Has Weathered Other Epidemics, and Will Pull Through This One Too
COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, and is causing panic across the country. Places like universities, libraries, schools, churches, restaurants, and pubs are closing. International flights are being redirected to just four airports with appropriate screening facilities,...
Basic Medical Supplies and Moral Contract
Finally on March 31, our Prime Minister announced that Canada will spend $2 billion to procure diagnostic test kits, ventilators, and the personal protective equipment (masks, face shields, gloves, gowns) that frontline healthcare workers require to carry out their...
Dr. Al Loyns, Agricultural Economist
A pioneer in the fight for marketing freedom for farmers, Al Loyns lays out the case for removing the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly and explains why the agency is likely to survive the transition.
Ban on New Hog Barns Is Poor Policy
A moratorium on the licensing of new hog barns is only the worst in a string of poor decisions.
Grass Growing as Potential Fuel
Write up of Frontier Centre’s Policy Experts Meeting held in Regina November 14, 2006.
Phil, You’re Wrong on the “Native Fiscal Imbalance”
Far too many band councils operate like despots in Third World countries. Their people are afraid to invest twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a reserve-based business, only to see it shut down by the band council for petty political reasons.
A Nudge for Rip Van Winkle
Saskatchewan just cut its provincial tax, when is Manitoba going to join in on the tax cutting?
Show Me the Money
Cross-border sampling results agree with most of the studies that have been done. Farmers just south of the border get paid more for identical wheat and barley crops. The Wheat Board’s so-called price advantage is a chimera.
How Alberta’s next premier can lead in health care
Alberta has already proved that responsible public-private competition has helped its education programs now Albertans are asking for the same to be applied to its healthcare programs.
Wheat Board Needs to Develop a Backbone
Advocates for the Canadian Wheat Board who say a loss of monopoly power would destroy the agency are mistaken. Its strengths could easily be translated into successful performance in a free market.
Prairie Wheat: 13.5% Protein 86.5% Politics – Loyns Powerpoint
Powerpoint slides from Dr. Al Loyns discusses Wheat Board politics . . .