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

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 from its current profits over an extended period of time. The measures taken during the COVID crisis by the federal government and the Bank of Canada to tackle the economic downturn are leading to a direct increase of zombie firms. The federal government’s economic response included wage subsidies of 75% for all employers who experienced a loss in gross revenues of at least 15% in March and 30% in April and May. In order to improve market liquidity, the Bank of Canada has lowered interest rates and began purchasing Government of Canada securities and Canada Mortgage Bonds. While this had reduced the financial pressure on firms at the time the creation of really low

By Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin Kulldorff Lockdowns 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 that we will have to live with – and die with – for many years to come.

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.

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 women when she was the Attorney General of California?" A: "It is par for the case these days, it is very common for people to invoke census categories of race, gender, sexuality, even religion and ethnicity to somehow claim ... Chicago's Morning Answer The Dan Proft Show AM 560 WIND Salem Radio Network

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? Could there be an answer to this question that would help in an increasingly divided world? Guest: Brian Giesbrecht, Senior Fellow, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, retired Manitoba provincial judge

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

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.

Brian Giesbrecht is interviewed on the Roy Green Show.

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 will be approximately $87 billion by 2030, now is certainly the time to be thinking about self-driving legislation.

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 showed true leadership when walked America away from the madness laid out before him and his fellow citizens on the Paris climate table.

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 results. In fact, equalization is producing disastrous unintended consequences for all the provinces, including those receiving the biggest cheques.

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 reduces the stock and quality of rental housing.

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 fiscal whims.

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. Unfortunately, recent federal announcements and the examples of two American states tell us a fiscal boon from legal pot is nothing more than reefer madness.

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 Parti Conservateur Uni en Alberta alors que la province se prépare pour les élections du 16 avril 2019.

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.

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.