Publications

Dropping Faculties is Not as Important as Reorganizing Departments – February 3, 2012
At the University of Manitoba, there are a number of departments that duplicate courses and programs and these departments could be combined so that more professors would be teaching courses rather than administering departments.

Un-Crown Them – February 3, 2012
The last decade has been a relatively quiet period in terms of privatization at both the federal and provincial levels. There are a number of reasons for this privatization hiatus. Certainly a major contributing factor, at least at the federal level, is that the low-hanging fruit has already been privatized.

Children Just Aren't Going to Know What Sun Is – February 2, 2012
James Delingpole writes about something a lot of us here know already: that the thing we really need to fear right now is not global warming but global cooling. And that, on current evidence, it's global cooling we're going to get.

Climate Science Review Needed to Inform Pipeline Hearings Better – January 31, 2012
The federal government should organise scientific and economic hearings about crucial projects like the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline in order properly to inform citizens and to dilute the impact of radical climate change environmentalists

Greens to Sceptics: Show Us the Money! – January 31, 2012
The first question asked about anyone making a non-conforming argument in the climate debate is ‘who funds them?’ And so it is with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) - a three-man, cross-party, independent think tank with charitable status, which dared to challenge climate orthodoxy.

It's Time to Push Manitoba Hydro's 'Pause' Button – January 30, 2012
On Jan. 17, the Public Utilities Board issued a press release saying evidence gathered at public hearings over the previous 11 months revealed the costs of Manitoba Hydro's $20 billion capital development plan have risen dramatically while sales of electricity to the U.S. have fallen. The PUB expressed concern that, as a result, Manitobans are at risk of huge rate increases.

Feedback - Education Faculties Should Disappear – January 30, 2012
Feedback - Education Faculties Should Disappear.

The Great House Price Dilemma – January 27, 2012
A global snapshot of housing affordability shows that local governments face a choice about land use regulations and housing affordability.

Education Faculties Should Disappear – January 27, 2012
Education faculties across the country should be merged with other university faculties.

Wealth Shared Unfairly, Study says; – January 27, 2012
Ottawa is suppressing key parts of a politically explosive federal report that reveals Ontario is being shortchanged by Canada's national wealth-sharing scheme.

What’s Wrong With Renting Sheds to Poor? – January 27, 2012
The fact that a man in Winnipeg faces charges for renting a shed in his backyard should lead us to question how restrictive housing and renting policies are creating the situation.

A Place in the Sun Still Precious – January 26, 2012
Even with house prices down in a soft economy, Kelowna's housing is still considered "severely unaffordable." The Frontier Centre for Public Policy's eight annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey puts the city's multiple ratio at 6.6, the fourth most unaffordable in the country behind Vancouver, Abbotsford and Victoria.

The Real Margaret Thatcher Story – January 26, 2012
That is certainly what the producers of "The Iron Lady" have done. The result is a masterly performance by Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But the depiction of Mrs. Thatcher in the movie misses much of the larger story. That story—the struggle to define the frontier between the state and the market, and the calamities that happen when governments live beyond their means—is directly relevant to the debt dramas now rocking Europe and the United States.

STC Receives $9.2M to Run Routes in 2012 – January 24, 2012
Government owned bus company Saskatchewan Transportation Co. is getting an operating grant of up to $9.2 million for 2012, about $300,000 more than the amount approved last year.

Manitoba Health Spending: Still Much Higher Than Average – January 23, 2012
Per-person healthcare spending in Manitoba is significantly higher than the national average.

8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey – January 23, 2012
The Frontier Centre releases a survey of 325 housing markets in seven countries including 35 from Canada. Vancouver is now the second least affordable housing market in the English speaking world, with the Prairies improving and Toronto continuning a long term trend of declining affordability.

A Shale-Fuelled Economic Miracle for 2012 – January 23, 2012
Amidst the doom and gloom headlines presaging dire prognostications for the Western economies in 2012 there is the very real promise of a global economy re-directing miracle in the making. The impact and promise of shale gas and shale oil is probably the good news story as we step into 2012. Not that you would know it, given the media’s predilection for bad news.

Media Release - Canadian Housing Affordability Continues Gradual Decline – January 23, 2012
Frontier Centre Media Release - Canadian Housing Affordability Continues Gradual Decline: Restrictive Urban Planning to Blame.

Canadian Housing Affordability in One Page – January 23, 2012
A one page look at housing affordability across 35 Canadian markets according to the 8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability survey.

Where Did All Alberta's Money Go? – January 23, 2012
Partisan political operators are battling to define the debate over one of the most explosive issues in the coming provincial election: Why can't a wealthy province like Alberta make ends meet?