Saskatchewan’s Commercial Crown Corporation Dividend Policy – June 2, 2010
A former Vice-President of Finance for Crown Investments Corporation critiques the Saskatchewan government’s decision to take 100% of the 2010 profits of commercial Crowns other than SaskPower.

Aboriginal Policy in Australia and Canada – April 22, 2010
A new study compares Aboriginal policy in Australia and Canada: Bottom-up policy and accountability is key to improvements.

The Shape of Tomorrow's Farming – March 30, 2010
Farming intensity must triple on the best land, in order to protect the poorer land which houses three-fourths of the wild species. Good farmland will become even more important, as one of the scarcest resources.

The Global Fiscal Crisis – February 26, 2010
The Executive Director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable has some insightful thoughts for the world at large in a new Frontier Centre Backgrounder.

The End is Nigh – October 22, 2009
The gloomy end-of-the-world rhetoric of climate change catastrophists is nothing new.

Manitoba’s Public Sector is Larger, More Expensive Than Most – September 24, 2009
Manitoba and Saskatchewan families pay heavily for a larger-than-average public sector--$1,280 more per family in the case of Manitobans and about $1,000 per family in Saskatchewan, this from a new study on the size of the public sector in each Canadian province.

An ‘F’ for Social Promotion – August 31, 2009
The Frontier Centre recommends schools replace social promotion with promotion on the basis of academic achievement.

How Free is Your Parking? – June 29, 2009

More Government Constraints = Less Value – June 3, 2009
Commercial Crown corporations face a different set of operating constraints than do private companies. These constraints might be expected to result in a diminished company value over time, perhaps to the benefit of achieving other public policy goals. As such, commercial Crowns should be subject to periodic reviews to clarify the costs and benefits of this trade-off.

Flunking Global Warming 101 – April 27, 2009
How does global warming contribute to spring flooding on the prairies? Answer: It doesn’t. Extra snows has caused massive flooding but once again, the climate change crowd is blaming human activity.

Knee-Capping the Competition – April 6, 2009
This paper examines the tax inequity that arises in Canada as a result of the general tax exempt status for Crown corporations. The legal and constitutional basis for this status, how the courts have interpreted and applied it and how governments have or have not attempted to deal with this inequity is outlined. A fairly simple and uniform legislative solution is then proposed.

$11.2 billion in 2009 – April 3, 2009
Whether one uses 1996 or 2001 as the baseline from which to measure Alberta's program spending, the result is that Alberta has consistently spent far more than inflation and population growth would justify.

Back To The Drawing Board – March 30, 2009
Even though homework opponents have claimed that homework is a poor use of students' time and should be abolished, the reality is that there are solid reasons for making it a key part of the learning process.

Manitoba’s School-closure Moratorium One Year Later – March 9, 2009
The school closure moratorium in Manitoba makes little sense as it forces empty schools to remain open while doing nothing to address the greater problem of declining student enrolment across the province.

Investment Managers Liable as Greenhouse Theories Unravel? – March 6, 2009
Has climate change frenzy created a colussus built on sand? There is a diversity of risk analyses being carried out by investors in today’s climate change market place. Practically without exception, all of these organizations, many of them among the most successful and respected in the world, completely ignore the risk that the very foundation of all of these activities might be shown to be faulty.

An Inconvenient Court Ruling – January 23, 2009
Teachers need to ensure that students receive a rigorous education where they learn the facts and all the different perspectives regardless of whether they fit into the popular version of environmentalism.

Pre-industrial CO2 Levels were About the Same as Today – December 22, 2008
Authorities told us pre-industrial atmospheric levels of CO2 were approximately 100 parts per million (ppm) lower than the present 385 ppm. They are wrong. The pre-industrial level is at least 50 ppm higher than the level put into the computer models that produce all future climate predictions.

The Case for Selling Public Housing in Manitoba – December 12, 2008
The Manitoba government should sell its residential real estate holdings to the private sector and then concentrate on providing targeted subsidies to low-income Manitobans, this according to a new backgrounder from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The report, from Frontier research associate Dan Klymchuk, shows how $25 million could be shaved off annual operating costs now paid by the provincial government, and instead redirected to those Manitobans in need of subsidized shelter. That $25 million could help subsidize 21,000 more people with their housing costs.

What Saved the Bloc Quebecois in the 2008 Election: Public Money – October 23, 2008
Over the past several decades, there have been several key changes to how Canada’s federal political parties are funded. The most recent and significant changes took effect in 2004 with federal legislation (Bill C-24, passed in 2003) which banned corporate and union donations.

Government Investment in Private Enterprises – October 23, 2008
The public policy purpose of government ownership of a commercial natural monopoly in the early stages of a jurisdiction?s economic development is to ensure that safe, reliable, cost-effective economic infrastructure services are made available to all citizens and businesses. Once the infrastructure is in place, and the original public policy purpose is presumably achieved, then citizens can and should determine whether government ownership continues to serve a continuing public purpose.