By Peter Holle, Frontier Centre For Public Policy This month, there was an unusual amount of international attention given to the Greenland election. This is a vast country with a tiny population of only 50,000. Every year, Denmark transfers $700 million to help fund Greenland’s government. This is a huge amount of […]
Tag: Canada
Flawed Imperial College study economic impact: Canada’s case
“The Flawed COVID-19 Model That Locked Down Canada” By Peter St. Onge and Gaël Campan, courtesy of IEDM Before mid-March, most Canadians saw COVID-19 as an overseas problem. The emphasis was on returning Canadians stuck in China, and there had been a single COVID-19 death in Canada, a BC man in his 80s with […]
Beware the COVID-19 Corporate Zombies!
“The Rise of Zombies in the Wake of COVID-19″ Gerard Lucyshyn, courtesy of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy We are spending double the amount of time on our streaming platforms compared to last year, close to 45.4 billion minutes spent on Netflix alone in the first few weeks of March 2020. Movie titles such as: 28 Weeks Later (2007), Quarantine (2008), Carriers (2009), […]
Will Canada follow California’s war on the gig economy?
“The Sharing Economy: Destroying Jobs Won’t Help Low-Income Workers” By Peter St. Onge and Daniel Dufort, courtesy of the Montreal Economic Institute Will Canada import California’s job-killing experiment and risk putting freelance work out of the reach of Canadians who need it? A case currently under consideration before the Supreme Court, Uber v. Heller,(1) […]
Canada needs immigration to drive growth
“Increase Immigration – Increase Prosperity” By Matthew Lau, courtesy of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy One of the big policy issues for the federal government this year, as well as in the Conservative leadership race, is immigration. By a margin of 63 percent to 7 percent, according to a recent Leger poll, […]
Limits on Pension Investments Hurt Returns
By Ian Madsen, courtesy of Frontier Centre for Public Policy Recently, members of ‘Extinction Rebellion’, a climate change activist group, sat in protest at the University of British Columbia, beginning a hunger strike on January 6th, trying to stop UBC’s pension fund from making or holding any investments in fossil-fuel-related companies. Sadly, the […]
Who will steer Brexit in months to come?
“Post-Brexit: who are the new thinkers that will reshape Britain” By Jack Powell, courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center Many in the anti-Brexit lobby are still trying to portray the vote to leave the European Union as the project of a very small number of Westminster elites. Carole Cadwalladr and her band of […]
Trade Barriers Kill Innovation
Creating medicine is a complex and expensive business. While U.S. biopharmaceutical companies lead the world in drug development, international trade practices can stem the flow of innovation to new markets, depriving patients in need. Limited market penetration also means fewer resources to re-invest in the most successful engine for life-saving advancements on […]
Canadian consumers would pay price for digital tax
“Taxing the tech giants: Canadian consumers and businesses will pay the price” Courtesy of MEI/IEDM During the last federal election campaign, all parties promised to raise taxes on the digital giants. Although this is on ice awaiting the conclusion of OECD discussions on the matter, the idea is still present in the public […]
USMCA: A victory for American workers, needlessly delayed by petty politics
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor On Wednesday. January 29th, President Donald Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) into law, at long last replacing the outdated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump called it “…the largest, most significant, modern, and balanced trade agreement in history. All of our countries […]