Anti-Social Union Practices Can’t Hide Behind Greater Good – May 31, 2010
Unsavoury union organizing seems to get more of a pass than it deserves in Saskatchewan, analysing the economics of union labour suggests it shouldn’t.

Governments Agree to Faster Recognition of Foreign Credentials – December 8, 2009
"Foreign-trained architects, nurses and engineers are among new immigrants who will get first crack at having their credentials recognized within one year under a new federal-provincial accord being announced Monday."

Brian Lee Crowley, Founding President of AIMS, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies – November 13, 2009
Frontier Conversation with the author of Fearful Symmetry – the Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values and what the future holds for Canada's labour market.

Canada's Returning To Her Real Roots – September 22, 2009
From time to time I like to imagine that I deeply understand our country. And then I encounter a book like Brian Lee Crowley's Fearful Symmetry, and come face to face with the great gaping holes in my education.

Thank You for Our Taxi Monopoly – April 20, 2009
Taxi regulation is a textbook example of the public choice economics concept of dispersed costs and concentrated benefits. The behaviour of the taxi industry at a recent policy breakfast regarding taxi deregulation in Calgary illustrated this example well.

Regina Taxi Regulations: Quit fiddling and cure the disease – March 10, 2009
Canadian cities like Regina should discard their license caps and fare controls in favour of quality controls, since the regulatory process has proven it does not serve the public interest over successive decades.

The Green-Jobs Engine That Can’t – March 3, 2009
If green-job claim sounds too good to be true, it's because they are.

The Case for Taxi Deregulation – February 12, 2009
Market failure, regulatory failure, and how to make taxi markets function for more jobs and better service.

Climate Change Adviser Ross Garnaut Branded A 'Wacko' by AWU President Bill Ludwig – February 11, 2009
"The AWU can't accept companies accessing taxpayers' money to get through the needed environmental change process, then turning around and campaigning for my members to take pay cuts," he said.

Canada’s Taxi Markets: Market Failure or Regulatory Failure? – February 9, 2009
A new Charticle compares Calgary, Winnipeg and Regina population growth to the number of taxi licenses and observes we have many fewer taxis than we might expect based on population and employment growth in the past two decades.

The Next Team – December 8, 2008
What would you call a group of economists who are skeptical of regulating mortgage markets, who think unemployment insurance and unions increase unemployment, who say that tax hikes retard economic growth, and who believe that the recovery from the Great Depression was a monetary phenomenon rather than the result of New Deal fiscal policy? No, it is not a right-wing cabal. It's Team Obama.

Opening Up Winnipeg’s Taxi Monopoly (Proulx) – October 16, 2008
A proposal to increase the number of taxis in Winnipeg through a proposed taxi co-op.

Unions Should Not Play Politics – September 2, 2008
While labour groups are correct to point out that management should not tell employees how to vote, they should recognize that they themselves are very partisan and should not be using members fees to support political causes.

The Impact of Teachers’ Unions on Education Policy – August 28, 2008
The primary goals of teachers’ unions are different from, and often incompatible with, those of effective schools.

Richard Epstein – May 23, 2008
One of the world's most high-powered thinkers, University of Chicago Law Professor Richard Epstein, interviewed by the Frontier Centre.

How Overseas Recruitment can Fix Labour Shortages (Linda West) – May 20, 2008
PowerPoint slides from Linda West's speech on overseas recruitment as a good solution to labour shortages in Canada.

Linda West – May 19, 2008
"The projections are that whatever the shortage is in your industry that they will double every 3 – 5 years for the next 15 years. We are literally today slowing down our economic growth because we don’t have workers."

A New Approach to Alberta's Minimum Wage – April 28, 2008
Author David Pankratz summarizes his findings as follows: "Our comparison makes it abundantly clear that we can best express the sincerity of our intentions to help the poor by expanding the value of their basic exemption from income taxes . . . In fact, the numbers show that increased exemptions work spectacularly better than minimum wages or tax credits in meeting the goal of improved incomes."

Overseas Recruiting Important – April 23, 2008
With Saskatchewan's strong economy and aging population, hiring workers from overseas is a good way for employers to mitigate the effects of the labour shortage. That was the message delivered by Linda West, one of the presenters at a meeting organized by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy on Tuesday.

Too Big A Bite – April 10, 2008
"Our comparison makes it abundantly clear that we can best express the sincerity of our intentions to help the poor by expanding the value of their basic exemption from income taxes. … In fact, the numbers show that increased exemptions work spectacularly better than minimum wages or tax credits in meeting the goal of improved incomes."