Sometimes inspiring action is about presenting a vision of what things could be like in the future with a little vision. It’s 2036 and Manitoba’s population just passed 3 million and its economy is booming so how did it get …
Risky Recycling Investments
“Is Recycling working out for Winnipeg and other cities? In 2017 the City of Winnipeg turned down a proposal from its lowest bidder on providing waste and recycling services and went with a more expensive option, why would they do …
Recycled Ideas
Winnipeg is building a bigger recycling plant. Estimated $30 Million Dollars. Despite recycling volumes being static for years. So why build a new one? Recycling is facing an uncertain future as recycling standards are in flux, the current quality recyclables …
A Price on Pickup
The City of Winnipeg did not choose the lowest bid cost for garbage pickup in 2017. The extra cost to Winnipeg taxpayers will be $16 million or approximately an extra 3 to 4 % on the average homeowner property tax …
Powerful Government Unions Make the Economy Weaker
American taxpayers and workers won a big victory recently, with the United States Supreme Court ruling 5-4 in June in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) that government employees not part of a union could …
High-Performance Government
“It’s Time for High-Performance Government,” Howard Risher says in his 2017 book. Amen to that. But how? Risher says, it’s not about efficiency, it’s about making workers engaged. And on that score, government is 30 years behind the curve. The …
Day 14 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 14 – Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 14 …
IMF Report Highlights Dangers of Bloated, Unproductive Public Sector
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in a report released with its latest World Financial Stability study, critiqued Italy, chiding the perennial underperformer for its famously large, unaffordable and growth-stifling public sector. Why this matters to anyone outside that beautiful, historic, …
Balancing Elephants: Saskatchewan’s Return on Investment – SASKFERCO
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Balancing Elephants: Saskatchewan’s Return on Investment – SASKFERCO. The 1980’s brought in some of the worst economic times Saskatchewan had ever had. It was a time of many systemic changes, political …