Human beings are the way they are because of natural selection. Those characteristics which allow more children to survive and reproduce will push out or select against characteristics are less helpful in having children that will survive and reproduce. We can see...
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Former Premier Peckford vs Pandemic Narrative: Solutions (Part 2 of 3)
The pandemic response has been misguided and contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, says former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford. The sole living First Minister from the constitutional negotiations in 1981-82 believes lockdowns and vaccine passports were...
COVID-19 Data, Booster Shots, and the Shattered Scientific ‘Consensus’
WATCH THE VIDEO (click on the link below) PART 1: Dr. Robert Malone, mRNA Vaccine Inventor, on Latest COVID-19 Data, Booster Shots, and the Shattered Scientific ‘Consensus’ “We need to confront the data [and] not try to cover stuff up or hide risks,” says mRNA vaccine...
Big Debts on The Prairies: A Burden for Future Generations
The Prairie provinces’ debts have grown colossally during the COVID-19 pandemic, just as they have in the rest of Canada and the world. Indeed, at the end of 2020, Alberta’s debt was estimated to be $98 billion, Manitoba’s $28.6 billion and Saskatchewan’s $15...
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Canadians on the Move, to Smaller Communities
The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
Leadership Needed in Canadian Healthcare; Apply Within
When the Premiers were first called to a sit-down lunch to talk about healthcare with Prime Minister Trudeau, there was plenty of talk about the potential for systemic change, innovation and accountability. It seemed that Canadians and their leaders were finally on...
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Frontier’s book review of Mark Steyn’s America Alone
Corin Taylor, Economics Analyst, Reform Think-Tank
Really want to help the poor? Reform government programs that focus on their needs. Make them transparent and productive vehicles for compatting poverty, not “jobs for life” for bureaucrats.
A Debate Over Swedish Health Care Reform
A Winnipeg editorialist takes a hit for praising the opening of the healthcare market in Stockholm, and Johan Hjertqvist responds to the critics.
Johan Hjertqvist, President, Health Consumer Powerhouse, Brussels
The new EuroHealth Index is beginning the next wave in public services, where consumers are empowered with information that assists them in navigating the bureaucratic byways of service provision.
Empowering Healthcare Consumers
The key to successful healthcare systems is the degree of choice they afford for well-informed patients, and how much information they provide.
Jim Harris, Leader, Green Party of Canada
The Frontier’s conversation with Jim Harris, Leader, the Green Party of Canada.
Searching for a Miracle Solution
This might seem an odd moment for a senior doctor to call for a switch in the way that the NHS is financed. Yet that is what Bernard Ribeiro, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons, has done. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph published on August 13th, he argued that a tax-based system will be unable to cope with future health-care demands. Instead, Britain ought to emulate the social-insurance model of Germany and France, in which the main source of finance is contributions levied on workers’ pay.
Depoliticized pensions
Citizens have more secure retirements when they have more say in their pension investments and government stays out of the way.
Flat Is Beautiful
If old Europe cannot beat the flat-taxers of new Europe, it may have to join them.