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Stealing Corn (~3min) – April 25, 2008
From the Frontier Centre's weekly radio commentary that runs in 3 prairie provinces.
Are Canadian Consumers Being Milked by Supply Management? (Charlebois Speech - MP3) (~9min) – October 23, 2007
Marketing Professor Sylvain Charlebois examines the downsides and prospects for supply management at Breakfast on the Frontier in Regina, October 4th, 2007.
Corn Living (CBC Radio's The Current) (~37min) – October 16, 2007
Government ethanol subsidies distort the food marketplace while accomplishing little for the environment - a cautionary tale. This clip is from CBC radio's "The Current" broadcast in September, 2007.


Upcoming Events

More events coming soon. Please join us then as we explore the frontier of public policy.


'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobglobins, all of them imaginary.'

Upcoming FCPP Appearances

Visionary Conversations: Our Education System: The Good, the Bad, and the Solutions
Speaker: Rodney Clifton, Senior Fellow for Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Date: May 22, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Robert B Schultz Theatre, St. John's College, University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus

Community Policy Forum
Speaker: Steve Lafleur, FCPP Policy Analyst
Date: May 28, 2013
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Place: Grant Park McNally Robinson, Winnipeg, Mb


Tue May 21, 2013

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