This study examines the growing danger of labour-related work stoppages across Canada. These stoppages refer to both employer-initiated lockouts and worker-led strikes. It argues that Canada has been dealing with an increasing frequency of national work...
Watch a short summary Canada had one of the world’s most efficient and stable administrations. Career bureaucrats understood their roles and were dedicated and professional in their approach. They got their policy direction from their political masters and...
Urgent Reforms Needed Winnipeg, February 5, 2025 – Canada’s public administration is in crisis, warns former MP and Member of the Order of Canada, Dorothy Dobbie, in a groundbreaking new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The report, Restoring...
Big Topics & Big Ideas
The word radicalism scares people, but the etymology is quite plain. It means getting back to the root—from the Latin radix. It carries no necessary ideological connotation. It merely means to wipe away the fluff, cruft, and baloney and speak about what matters. It...
The headline in the New York Times seems terrifying. “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.” The article explains that they “are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to...
Where Activist Judges Play Fast & Loose With The Rule of Law
For many years past, and probably many to come, fiscal conservatives have told governments to have small cabinets. Let’s face it–it’s a symbolic gesture at best and the last place where saving money should be a factor. Effectiveness should be our goal, not...
Manitobans deserve access to quality health care – not fear and misinformation from union-funded interests. This past week, the province announced the expansion of a partnership with Winnipeg-based Cerebra Medical to provide access to at-home sleep disorder...
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After more than two weeks of shutting down virtually all federal government services, 120,000 of the picketing workers returned to work just recently. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) walkout had been brewing since last fall, when PSAC president Chris...
What can Canada learn from New Zealand?
It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...