It’s a mystery why some people suddenly eschew their past principles. This phenomenon is especially notable when people of power and fame forget principles they have sworn to uphold as responsible professionals. This mystery is evident in Senator Murray Sinclair’s...
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Wealth Tax Is State-Sanctioned Theft: Politicos Drunk on Power Pursue Disappearing Revenues
Eat-the-rich rhetoric is good politics but bad policy. The wealthy minority contribute precious investment and much-needed employment, but no good deed goes unpunished. The specter of a wealth tax, which hangs over Canada, epitomizes infantile, self-defeating...
When Misinformation is Misinformation
Before 2016, “misinformation” was just another word in the dictionary. As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump’s straight-shooting presidential campaign was serious, and that he would likely become the Republican nominee, “misinformation” became a strategy....
Sir John ‘Eh?
“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” - William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" Sir John Alexander Macdonald, Canada’s first and six-times-elected prime minister, was born on either January 10 or 11, 1815. On the 206th...
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Energy Storage, Key to Making Renewable Energy and Green Infrastructure Viable, is Expensive
Big infrastructure spending plans in both Canada, the United States, and the European Union, all place a lot of emphasis on renewable energy displacing coal, gas and petroleum burning generating stations and motor vehicles. Yet little attention is given to the one...
Technology Giants: Prince John or Robin Hood?
The technology landscape consists of giant powerhouses like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and AOL (to name a few) and a veritable plethora of smaller companies ranging in size from one-person start-ups to mid-sized corporations. The one thing that all of these...
Study Really Hits Home
Keeping company with the likes of Los Angeles, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Sydney, Australia, Kelowna has shown up on a list of “severely unaffordable” housing markets. “This year, we expanded our survey to include more Canadian cities, so Kelowna debuted as the...
(Most of) Canada Tops International Housing Affordability
A new edition of the Demographia study shows dramatic differences in housing affordability across 29 Canadian cities, and points to the cause and the solution of unaffordable housing.
13 Canadian Cities Among Most Affordable Housing Markets in World
A major new study released today by Demographia and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy ranks Thunder Bay, ON, Saguenay, QC, Saint John, NB and St. John’s, NL, as among the most affordable housing markets in the world.
Inland port urged for Sask.
A Prairie inland port stands to offer Canadians a larger share of the global transportation industry at a more effective cost, while putting Saskatchewan on the map in the Prairie-to-ports gateway that would connect global markets to North America. An inland railway...
More Ridiculous Ways to Save the Planet
If you’re drinking a cold one as you drive along speed-bump-lined streets from the divorce court to your job as a bagpiper in a music hall lit with incandescent bulbs ... Whew, there should be a special carbon tax just on you. In the past six weeks, several studies —...
Montreal Deep in Debt
A recent Winnipeg study has named Montreal the most indebted major Canadian city, with debts over three times higher than the national average for Canadian cities. The study, entitled "Local Government Performance Index: A Financial Analysis of 30 Canadian Cities,"...
Montreal Most Indebted City in Canada: Report; More Than Triple National Average
An independent Manitoba think tank has named Montreal the most-indebted city in Canada. Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy released its inaugural Local Government Performance Index: A Financial Analysis of 30 Canadian Cities yesterday, which found...
Hail Chief Paleface
A quirky look at what it means to be an “Indian”.
The Worst Policy Decision Yet
Political interference in Manitoba hydro has ridden rough shod over the corporations’ preferences, leading to technically inferior design solutions.