Competitors Mean Less Power for Incumbents, Central Bank Financial intermediation outside the banking system, also known as shadow banking, is growing by leaps and bounds in Canada. It is a CAD$1.5 trillion industry that expanded by 30 percent between 2015 and 2017,...
In the past few months, we have been treated to the dire and angry imprecations and accusations of the new climate absolutists, who demand total obeisance to their escalating demands and putative authority. Any critics or doubters of catastrophic anthropogenic global...
We are spending double the amount of time on our streaming platforms compared to last year, close to 45.4 billion minutes spent on Netflix alone in the first few weeks of March 2020. Movie titles such as: 28 Weeks Later (2007), Quarantine (2008), Carriers (2009), and...
Honest, evidence-based climate models could avoid trillions of dollars in policy blunders President Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force presented some frightening numbers during their March 31 White House briefing. Based on now 2-week-old data and models, as...
Canada has consistently failed to make progress that is commensurate with so many lofty pronouncements and expectations on the Indigenous file. By statistics alone, it is a national shame that most Indigenous Canadians on reservations live far below acceptable...
Four years after he broke the Watergate story, Carl Bernstein quit the Washington Post and spent six months looking at the relationship between the CIA and the press. The result was a 25,000-word cover story in the October 20, 1977 edition of Rolling Stone called “The...
Frontier’s conversation with Kim Sigurdson
A cautionary tale of how government ownership and monopoly wreaks havoc with vital infrastructure in Nigeria
Alberta shines in study of capital spent on upgrades
Canada’s natural advantages as a trading nation are hampered by a series of protectionist regulations that divert attention and energy from the wealth creation possible from an expansion of its share of international commerce.
Allan Duff and Henare O’Keefe traveled from Vancouver to Halifax in May and the two Maori men made several stops along the way. The trip was sponsored by the Winnipeg based Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP). Duff continually bashed away at the Maori leadership...
While Dairy products are fetching ever higher prices, wool prices are languishing. Worse, the leaders of the industry seem resigned to their fate. This is surely remarkable. At a time when everyone from Dictators to ditch-diggers is besotted by things “natural” surely...
The whole climate change issue is rapidly degenerating into confrontation and collapse on a number of levels from local to international. Prospects of international cooperative measures to reduce undesirable greenhouse gas emissions (GGEs) are receding by the day. The...
The Globe and Mail thinks that census data confirm a Canadian distaste for suburban life. In fact, the data say just the opposite. The wealthier we get, the more our cities spread.
Martin Durkin’s new documentary puts the subsidized high-priests of manmade global warming on the run. Singer summarizes the film’s arguments.