When we start discussing the inevitable economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick should lift restrictions on natural gas fracking. Natural gas prices are at lows, but that will not stay the case forever. Energy industry...
In 1970 Claude Charron was the youngest member ever elected to the National Assembly of Quebec. Re-elected a few times and as a high-profile cabinet minister, Charron astounded everyone by being caught red-handed trying to steal a tweed jacket from an Eaton’s store....
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on the already fragile Indigenous economy, making the Indigenous economic recovery that much more important. Gaming – including Indigenous-owned casinos – plays a significant role in Indigenous economies, especially...
Name something you can find only in Canada. If we eliminate easy answers such as wildlife oddities, three-down football and maple-flavoured pastries and focus instead on major transportation infrastructure hubs, there’s just one correct response: the unique and...
The free market economy is beautiful in its simplicity: offer a service people want at a price people will pay for, and you will get your reward. For decades, cab drivers offered what buses could not—a ride on request from any location to anywhere else in a reasonable...
Police services are once again hard at work preparing annual budget submissions for the next fiscal year. The cost of policing continues to mount year after year, and the justifications seem to repeat year to year as well. The budget for Canada’s largest municipal...
Frontier’s Conversation with Sweden’s most successful independent school entrepreneur, Winnipeg, May 19th, 2005
If the rules were changed, the office of Grand Chief could become a powerful agent for dispute resolution.
Even the alleged friends of free trade want to keep tariffs in dairy and poultry.
Canada should fight against the imposition of stifling new regulations on bioprospecting.
A supreme court decision begins the long process of breaking down Canada’s public healthcare monopoly.
Federal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale and Atlantic Institute President Brian Crowley debate Saskatchewan equalization
A former NDP Premier discusses what’s working in government, and what is not.
Voters in Europe are wisely refusing to endorse Canadian-style federalism.
The recent revelations from the Gomery Inquiry are causing me great concern, but not for the usual reasons. We should all feel outraged at the waste of taxpayers’ money for dubious purposes but, hey, governments are always wasting money. The real problem is the...