Canadians benefit from a quality of life that few in human history could even conceive of. Unfortunately, many Canadians at the lower end of the income spectrum haven’t shared in those gains. A recent Statistics Canada report shows that while the middle class is...
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Drill, Baby, Drill! Standing Up for Oil Development Offshore
Offshore oil exploration has been banned in British Columbia since the early 1970s. To this day, despite talk of making Canada an “energy superpower”, the federal government and provincial government have failed to lift the moratorium, treating the issue as a...
Islanders should take less, contribute more to EI, other programs
Souris Mayor Dave MacDonald recently told the Premiers’ Council on EI that recent changes to the federal EI program are killing his town. Unfortunately, Mr. MacDonald did not note that Islanders receive three times as much as they contribute to the EI program. This...
It is Crunch Time for Atlantic Canada
Over fifty years, observers have become inured to troubling reports of Atlantic Canada's economic difficulties. Even the most jaundiced observer would recognize, however, that data for the last two years describes something different. The regional economy is not...
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Did 2021’s Hot Summer Spark New Green Extremism?
There’s no doubt that summer 2021 was a scorcher. The United Kingdom’s Met Office revealed how temperatures exceeded 30°C in September for only the seventh time in history. In Vancouver, Canada, 2021 was the second hottest summer ever recorded, with daily average...
How ESG Standards Favor Toxic Petrostates
Coercion and vandalism have become commonplace tactics to force insurers off mining and oil development projects throughout the world. Ironically, that clears the way for companies with deep pockets and petrostates whose goal is geopolitical supremacy, not...
Moving Manitoba from a “Have Not” to a “Have” Province
Manitoba’s Liberal Party Leader suggests ways to improve the province’s economic prospects.
The More Things Stay the Same
The federal and provincial governments renew equalization program without substantive reform. No accountability. No hope of ending the debilitating dependence of the have-not provinces on the charity of the haves.
Michael Bennaroch, Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Winnipeg
Are Manitoba Hydro’s prices too low? A perspective from the head of the University of Winnipeg’s economics department.
Manitoba Debt-Free?
The Province of Alberta is out of debt. With the right policy mix, Manitoba could be, too.
There is no fiscal imbalance
Canada’s cities and towns are not starving. Most of them are solidly stuck in the 1970s and far behind U.S. and British cities when it comes to sensible, taxpayer-friendly approaches such as privatization, contracting out and competition in general.
The Idea Whisperers
Through widely disseminated studies and informal relationships with bureaucrats and politicians, think-tanks are Canada’s idea whisperers — and they’re out to help steer the ship of state.
Ruth Richardson in Wonderland
Pundits talk about an “issueless” election campaign, but revisiting New Zealand’s experience indicates there is much to be done in Canada.
Stephen Harper, Leader of the Conservative Party
Frontier interviews Stephen Harper, Leader of the Conservative Party in Winnipeg, May 17th, 2004
In Flanders’ Fields the Transfers Grow
Equalization policies now intensify calls for separatism in Belgium.