By Paul Driessen (WASHINGTON, DC) – Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his state’s portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed were environmentally sensitive. The Alberta-to-Texas pipeline would create more than 5,500 Nebraska jobs during its construction period and support 1,000 permanent jobs through [...]
By Marco Navarro-Genie and Brianna Heinrichs (CALGARY, AB) – The economic case for a high-speed train in Alberta is extremely weak. Transportation Minister Ric McIver announced earlier this fall that several people “from substantial business interests” had come by his office saying that if the land were available, they would build a high-speed train between [...]
By Steve Lafleur (WINNIPEG, MB) – A recent controversial land-swap deal undertaken by the City of Winnipeg to build a new fire station has called attention to the sometimes too-cozy relationships between local politicians and developers in Canadian cities. Similarly, Toronto city councilors — as well as the mayor — have come under fire for [...]
By Marco Navarro-Génie (CALGARY, AB) – Knowledge is power to the wise, but where wisdom is lacking to those hungry for power, a simple diet of data will suffice. It is such appetite that drives Quebec to preserve the long gun registry data. Getting rid of the registry was a Conservative campaign promise that was [...]
By Roland Renner (WINNIPEG, MB) – In April, FCPP released a policy paper, “Rebuilding the Last Mile” on upgrading the last mile of telecommunications networks. Installing fibre optic cable from households to the telecommunications network creates a huge increase in communications capacity to each home. Several models and international precedents were examined in the paper [...]
(WINNIPEG, MB) – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy released Airport Policy in Canada. This research paper examines evidence from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom and concludes that privatizing Canada’s airports would lower costs for consumers and promote economic growth. The author, Mary Jane Bennett, is a lawyer and Executive Consultant with [...]
By Wendell Cox (REGINA, SK) – This morning the Frontier Centre for Public Policy is releasing the 8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. The survey compares the ease or difficulty with which residents of 325 housing markets in seven English speaking countries afford housing. It includes 35 housing markets in Canada (see figure 1). [...]
By Michale Zwaagstra (WINNIPEG, MB) – The recent Saskatchewan government decision to extend provincial funding to independent schools brings Saskatchewan in line with the practice in the three other western provinces. Saskatchewan independent schools are now eligible for funding equivalent to 50% of the provincial per-student average, provided they follow the provincial curriculum and hire [...]
By Ben Eisen (WINNIPEG, MB) – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released the fourth annual Canada Health Consumer Index (CHCI). The index ranks health care system performance from the perspective of the consumer in each province by assessing the extent to which they are meeting the needs of health care users. The CHCI [...]
By Joseph Quesnel (WINNIPEG, MB) – Canada is not alone among advanced industrial countries in which indigenous communities’ housing is in serious crisis. The housing crisis in Attawapiskat, a remote First Nation in Northern Ontario, only speaks to one of the worst situations. From a column that appeared in June 2010 in the Australian, a [...]
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