Annual reports are an essential tool in the public’s ability to analyze companies performance. This charticle demonstrates the transparency of Canadian energy companies based on public access to their annual report data online. This simple analysis of the...
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Canadian Property Rights Index
Property rights are fundamental to the prosperity of any economy. Without predictable and enforceable property rights, individuals and businesses cannot receive a return on economic activity. Property rights are also strongly correlated to GDP per capita and foreign...
Does Rent Control Always Produce Lower Rents?
Jurisdictions with rent control policies do not always experience slower growth in rent prices than jurisdictions where rent is unregulated.
Manitoba Health Spending: Still Much Higher Than Average
Per-person healthcare spending in Manitoba is significantly higher than the national average. FC73
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Katz’s Powerless City Summit
Can a big-time summit reverse Winnipeg’s relative decline? That requires creative actions at a higher level.
Try Smarter Policing Instead
Frontier’s 2004 police charticle again shows Winnipeg with the second highest police per capita in Canada. Instead of increasing police numbers, Winnipeg needs to make smarter use of its plentiful police resources.
Alberta Taxes Approach U.S. Levels
The 2004 Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and two American states, North Dakota and Minnesota. It sums up a jurisdiction’s key tax rates – the top provincial marginal rates (including surcharges) on personal and corporate income, as well as payroll, capital, sales taxes, and for the first time this year health taxes* – to present a picture of the total tax burden, and to benchmark them against our neighbours’ tax load.
Manitoba Health Spending Much Higher than Average (FC014)
Manitoba continues to spend the most per capita on healthcare of the Canadian provinces, except Newfoundland Labrador.
Smarter Policy = Growth
Manitoba’s 2003 budget continues the low growth policy model
Alberta Reductions Outpace Neighbours Again (FC012)
The 2003 Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and two American states, North Dakota and Minnesota.
Manitoba’s Low Business Investment
Manitoba has the lowest rate of capital investment per capita in western Canada and the third lowest in the country, after two Maritime provinces. Over the last ten years, the accumulated new investment amounts to only 40% of the Canadian average.
2002 Tax Load Index – The Gap Widens
Our 2002 Tax Load Index expands this year to include B.C., Ontario and two neighbouring U.S. states, North Dakota and Minnesota.
Equalization’s Good Intentions Not Enough
A conference hears evidence that equalization allows the receiving provinces to not focus on the basics of good public policy like creating an attractive tax and regulatory environment.