The media plays a vital role in the health and well-being of our democracy. And yet, the trust and confidence in legacy media has never been lower. At the same time, so called independent and smaller media outlets are on the rise. What is the role of the fourth estate? What are key issues it faces today in a challenging environment?. Why is it that…

Affordable, dependable, reliable and secure energy has always, been foundational to Canada’s economic competitiveness and high standard of living. Yet the broader political and media consensus today, based on the unproven theory of human caused climate change, is all about suppressing and ending the benefits of Canada’s immense energy resource weal…

Leaders on the Frontier | So Much More We Can Be with the Hon. Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan 1982-1991The evidence, as detailed in the Frontier Centre book “So Much More We Can Be”, shows that the Devine government was indeed an important inflection point in Saskatchewan history. It significantly diversified the provincial economy while cre…

Patient Centered Health Care and CrisisJoin us on Today!Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’sHealth-care CrisisA Webinar featuring Senior Fellow Susan Martinuk in a discussion about Canada’s health care system.REGISTER NOW →Our Topic:Sometimes health care hurts the very people it is supposed to heal. This is now the situation in Canada, where waitlis…

"Energy policy plays a central role in the health and vibrancy of Canada's economy and in the quality of life and high living standard of every Canadian. Canada’s enormous energy wealth, particularly from its immense conventional oil and gas reserves, is our country’s largest export and its greatest source of tax revenue and high paying jobs. Relat…

Canada’s health care system by almost all measures and indexes performs at or near the bottom of OECD rankings while being among the most expensive in the world. Patients experience a myriad of waiting lists and health bureaucracy that often create immeasurable suffering and poor results.Given this reality, how can healthcare in Canada improve and …

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Canada's 14 Governments have instituted almost two years of unprecedented drastic emergency policies in an attempt to safeguard human health. These actions have severely curtailed individual rights and freedoms while causing enormous economic and social damage. We will discuss this, on the occasion of the 40th annivers…

Smashing the Top 5 Climate Crisis Myths with John Robson, Executive Director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. Dr. Robson will be discussing the Top 5 Climate Myths, from (1) the settled scientific consensus to (2) the unprecedented rise in temperature (3) the demonstrated increase in extreme weather to (4) the ready availability of alternatives to …

Frontier senior fellows Brian Giesbrecht and David Redman discuss the continuing Covid policy fiasco, including lockdowns and vaccine mandates with Glorious and Free, a public discussion group with membership mostly in Ontario and Quebec. November 22, 2021. (3 hours).Av Frontier Centre

Leaders On The Frontier with Lord Conrad Black (Nov 25) by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

Discussion with Wendell Cox.Av Frontier Centre

Discussion with Tom Flanagan.Av Frontier Centre

A new book crossed my desk a few weeks ago now and I knew it was coming because there were a series of articles are written over a recent years by the Frontier Center for Public Policy drilling down on certain parts of the Divine government legacy. Divine led the first conservative government since the Depression era. Grant Devine becomes the Premi…

An Elder Speaks: Great Leaders Have Great Fellowship by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

An Elder Speaks: “The Better Men They Were, the More Useful for Their Followers” by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

An Elder Speaks: Total Change Would Bring Chaos by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

An Elder Speaks: “Money in the Hands of the System, the System Will Impose Its Will." by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

13.2 Non - Tax Fraud Compliance 35s by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

An Elder Speaks: “Deprive The System Of Its Money And You Empower The Ordinary"“The reason for bringing in this radical change is the imutability of the system and its ability to resist any change over the years and the necessity of doing what they’re now proposing to do in the case of cancers, which is deprive the cancer of its source of blood. In…

An Elder Speaks: Racism Is a Justification for Self-Interests by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

An Elder Speaks: “It's Like a Province With No Accountability" by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

Danielle Smith interviews Dr. Marco Navarro-Génie and Dr. Barry Cooper, senior research fellows at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy about their new book The Politics of Pandemic Moral Panic.Av Frontier Centre

Since the 1990s zombie firms have been on the rise; in fact, the Bank of Canada states that the number of zombie firms in the country is higher than in other countries. These zombies are anything but the fictional ones referred to in movies, these ones are very real! A zombie firm refers to any business who is unable to pay its debt-servicing costs…

By Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin KulldorffLockdowns have generated enormous collateral damage on other health outcomes, such as plummeting childhood vaccination rates, worst cardiovascular disease outcomes, less cancer screening, and deteriorating mental health, just to name a few. Even if all lockdowns are lifted tomorrow, this is something tha…

Authors Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Génie join Sheila Gunn Reid to talk about their new book on the Canadian government's reaction to COVID-19.Av Frontier Centre

Lies at the Heart of Identity Politics: Why do individuals insist on professing their professional accomplishments through identifying their gender and race? Q: "During the vice presidential debate in the United States, were you struck by Kamala Harris's need to tell everybody that she was a black women when she was a prosecutor and she was a black…

Imagine you were given the opportunity to completely redraw the borders and boundaries of North America however you choose. Would you redo them along party lines so the supporters of every party have their own territory for them to control? Would you have a certain number of each party control different areas? Or would you change anything at all? C…

Guest Brian Giesbrecht, retired Manitoba provincial court judge, Senior Fellow with the Frontier Center for Public Policy and C2C Journal author.Av Frontier Centre

Wendell Cox - Senior Fellow, Frontier Centre for Public Policy - Housing affordability in Ottawa has declined from “affordable” in 2005 to “seriously unaffordable” in 2019 according to the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.Av Frontier Centre

Brian Giesbrecht is interviewed on the Roy Green Show.Av Frontier Centre

Good politics, bad economics. This was the verdict among Canada's most economic literate think tanks on the conservative's platform plank on the trimming of the Goods & Service tax, by two points. For various reasons, these institutions appeared more favorably disposed towards the Liberals income tax cuts.…

Many of the world’s leading automotive manufacturers such as: Tesla, Uber, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Volvo, BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Nissan, GM, and Ford along with some other less-common brands are working on and planning to release driverless cars or driverless systems in the future. It is projected that the autonomous vehicle market in the US wi…

Can you imagine stumbling upon the Mad Hatter’s tea party, watching as the discussions become increasingly absurd – and yet wanting a permanent seat at the table? Could Lewis Carroll have been having nightmares about the Paris climate treaty when he wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? The US President was 100% correct (not just 97%) when he sho…

The stated objective of Canada’s equalization program is to ensure provincial governments in less-prosperous regions of the country are able to deliver high-quality public services to residents. This is a worthwhile, even noble objective. That the program is motivated by good intentions, however, does not necessarily mean it is producing positive r…

The holidays are a time when many of us count our blessings, and think of society’s least fortunate. While there are many things that can be done to help those in need, some policies designed to do so backfire. Rent control is one of them. Surveys of economists continually show a nearly perfect consensus within the profession that rent control redu…

The decision to turf laws that ensure taxpayer protection and balanced budgets most often come back to haunt the politicians you make such decisions.Properly designed, such legislation can serve as a fiscal constitution that delivers superior long-term policy and better services paid for by expanded growth inoculates politicians from the danger of …

Legalize and tax marijuana and the budget will balance itself. Marijuana advocates from stoners to recreational users to the Prime Minister have tried to convince us of this for years. It makes some sense that a product so commonly used should be regulated, not criminalized, sending its newly-enabled taxation revenues to the public coffers. Unfortu…

In this interview with Sandra Gagnon of Radio-Canada Alberta Marco Navarro-Génie commented on the strengths and weaknesses of Alberta's United Conservative Party heading into the 2019 election of April 16.Dans cette entrevue avec Sandra Gagnin à Radio-Canada Alberta, Marco Navarro-Génie offre ses commentaires à propos des forces et faiblesses du Pa…

The cancellation of the Energy East pipeline project by TransCanada Corporation, citing delays caused by the regulatory process, newly lengthened and thickened by Ottawa, is emblematic of forces conspiring against rational energy and regulatory policy.Av Frontier Centre

Opponents of oil pipelines, such as the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast, have arguably caused unnecessary harm to the environment, reduced public safety, and slowed the Canadian economy.Av Frontier Centre

The environmentalist war on fossil fuels has opened a new front: a war on pipelines. For years, activists claimed the world was rapidly depleting its oil and natural gas supplies. The fracking revolution (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) obliterated that argument, and sent US oil and gas production to new heights.…

Justice Pricing: Is it really justice or just plain hate? by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

Once they were big, really big, kings of Hollywood, producers of movies that were nominated for over 300 Oscars, but when their founder was outed as Captain America of the freestyle groping team, the Weinstein Company name became toxic.Av Frontier Centre

Cornwallis And Ryerson: Heros Or Villians? by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

How should municipal services be delivered to citizens? The political right argues that outsourcing services is usually more efficient, while the left argues that privatization of services such as waste management or waste water treatment would lead to lower quality services. In actuality many municipal services are delivered by both private compan…

Can’t Pick and Choose Free Speech: U of M missed opportunity to leadAv Frontier Centre

Demographia with Wendell Cox by Frontier CentreAv Frontier Centre

The federal government has decided to throw $950 million dollars into “strengthening Canada’s most promising clusters and accelerating economic growth in highly innovative industries…while positioning Canadian firms for global leadership.”What this means is that the feds will handpick five business proposals (which will probably turn out to be in L…

The House of Commons bans certain terms as “unparliamentary speech”. It’s time we all stopped using certain phrases in our own debates. The current Minister of the Environment has referred to some of her opponents as “climate change deniers”, a nasty and dishonest charge.Av Frontier Centre

The age of driverless automobiles is almost upon us. Most of the world’s car makers are working on prototypes and it is expected that by 2030 the autonomous vehicle market in the US alone will be worth approximately $87 billion. How will Canada deal with this innovation.Av Frontier Centre