Author Archives: David Seymour

About David Seymour

David Seymour B.A. B.E. is a senior policy analyst at the Frontier Centre. David also Directs the Saskatchewan Office of the Frontier Centre and the Local Government Performance Index project (www.lgpi.ca)

Measuring Canada’s Housing Affordability Against the World

Posted on January 22, 2012 by David Seymour

The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey is the widest measure of global housing affordability. It reveals the affordability of housing in 35 Canadian markets as well as 290 other markets in six other countries. Continue reading →

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Mario Vargas Llosa’s Letter to Castro

Posted on July 6, 2011 by David Seymour

Nobel Laureate, former Castro admirer, and now free market advocate on his own intellectual journey. Continue reading →

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Inconvenient Truths About Light Rail

Posted on July 6, 2011 by David Seymour

Transport Engineer Sturat Donovan on the troubles with light rail. Continue reading →

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Not on the Frontier…

Posted on June 2, 2011 by David Seymour

We answer a critical letter in the National Post. Continue reading →

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New Video Series: Economics in One Lesson

Posted on May 6, 2011 by David Seymour

Interview format videos on Hazlitt’s great work. Continue reading →

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Germain Greer the Perils of Centrally Planning Ecosystems

Posted on May 3, 2011 by David Seymour

Greer painfully realizes that you can’t centrally plan the environment. Continue reading →

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China’s Gross and Unintended Consequence of Central Planning

Posted on April 28, 2011 by David Seymour

Aging population and gendercide, lest we forget. Continue reading →

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Young Kiwis Value Space

Posted on April 27, 2011 by David Seymour

Young Kiwis share Canadians’ preference for the suburbs. Continue reading →

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Mayor Nenshi to Slay Taxi Cartel?

Posted on April 18, 2011 by David Seymour

Calgary’s Mayor may be a true reformer. Continue reading →

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Roy Romanow stars as Eeyore on the Environment

Posted on April 9, 2011 by David Seymour

Former SK Premier Romanow is Mr. Glum. Continue reading →

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The Case for Water Markets

Posted on April 7, 2011 by David Seymour

An 8 minute TED Video on water markets. Continue reading →

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Farmer Knows the Land

Posted on April 7, 2011 by David Seymour

A Saskatchewan Farmer writes about the role of wetlands on sask farm land over the last century, as a sink and a source of water in wet and dry years. With the advent of larger equipment, farmers of that time … Continue reading →

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