Policy on the Frontier – The State of Canada’s Economy with William Watson
Canada faces a myriad of serious economic challenges. On May 18th, the Canadian consumer price inflation hit a three-decade high, adding pressure on the Bank of Canada to continue with major interest rate increases. This at a time of record level government...
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Aiming for “Average” Could Help Manitoba
Recently I had lunch with a knowledgeable insider colleague who lamented over Manitoba’s lacklustre economic prospects. Brian Pallister's new provincial government had been dealt a terrible hand. The deficit likely exceeds a billion dollars on top of an unneeded and...
The Privatization Of Potash Corporation Of Saskatchewan
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a study about the privatization of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS). The report was co-authored by Dr. Mark Moore and Dr. Aidan Vining, both at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, BC....
Too Costly To Leave The Indigenous Situation As It Is
Graham Lane Despite innumerable inquiries, claimed reforms and repeated apologies, Canada’s indigenous situation remains unsettled, tragic and almost incalculably expensive. Mired in misery, far too many aboriginal people and communities remain trapped in dire...
Slum Cities and Refugee Camps: Gateways to a Perilous Future
At any given time, there are about 20 million people on the move in the world. When there’s war, terrorism, extreme weather events, or other disruptions, this can grow to 80 million people trying to get to safety. We hear of illegal immigrants crossing borders and...
Woke Capitalism Is a Sign of Things to Come
No one ever had trouble finding examples of corporate hypocrisy. Recent months seem to have brought a bounty. The same companies who submit to Chinese authorities have no problem resisting American ones. Corporations threaten boycotts against states whose legislatures...
Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932-1933 : report to Congress / Commission on the Ukraine Famine
Based on testimony heard and staff research, the Commission on the Ukraine Famine makes the following findings: 1) There is no doubt that large numbers of inhabitants of the Ukrainian SSR and the North Caucasus Territory starved to death in a man-made famine in...
Politically Blocked isn’t the Same Thing as Geographically Landlocked
In mocking response to those wishing to separate, some quip that Alberta would remain landlocked the day after it becomes independent. With a more respectful tone, Alberta’s own premier used similar words in his recent “Fair Deal for Alberta” speech. Those endorsing...
Manitoba Hydro Dams – It is Time for a Pause
It is time to pause and re-think the model for northern dam construction.
What’s So weird About the Weather?: The real threat to Prairie agriculture is the cooling trend
Contrary to official temperature records, observational evidence from around the world indicates that we are in a period of cooling almost certainly caused by solar changes. This is expected to continue and deepen and poses the real threat to Prairie and Canadian agriculture, most of which is confined to a narrow strip along our southern border. Fifty percent of crops in Manitoba cannot be grown with a 0.5°C overall temperature drop and much of Canadian agriculture is eliminated entirely by a 1°C cooling.
Bye Bye, Miss American Pie: In the first of five excerpts from his new book, Mark Steyn explains how bureaucrats have come to regulate every aspect of modern life — even the neighbourhood bake sale
Big Government requires enough of a doughnut to pay for the hole: you take as much dough as you can get away with and toss it into the big gaping nullity of micro-regulation. And it’s never enough. And eventually you wake up and find your state is all hole and no doughnut. Excerpted from the recently released book After America: Get Ready For Armageddon by Mark Steyn. Reprinted with permission of Regnery Publishing, Inc. © Mark Steyn 2011.
Cutting Tax Expenditures
In this article looking at tax expenditures, there are some interesting ideas that merit some discussion.
Cell Phone Lawsuit Should be Thrown Out: School authority needs our support
School disciplinary authority in Saskatchewan is under fire as lawsuit filed against school division argues that the confiscation of a banned telephone in a classroom led to a violation of the student’s privacy.
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