It’s always justifiable to question why we are compelled to support the arts, but it’s all the more understandable that taxpayers recoil at arts funding when that art is particularly esoteric and inaccessible.
Blog - Fraser Forum
November 4, 2015
11:48AM
In his book, the former Federal Reserve chairman confesses that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department were powerless to prevent Lehman Brothers from failing.
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November 4, 2015
4:00AM
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has asked the U.S. State Department to suspend its permit application.
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November 3, 2015
9:13AM
A reoccurring narrative in the income inequality debate is that top earners don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes. The data, however, paint a different picture.
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November 3, 2015
4:00AM
Business investment is no longer the driving force of capital formation in Ontario. In its place, investment by the public sector has nearly doubled.
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November 2, 2015
11:32AM
Canada's lack of competitiveness will put Canadian manufacturing in a poor position to take advantage of opportunities via the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
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November 2, 2015
4:00AM
The notion that women face wage discrimination of anything approaching the magnitude of 30-cents-on-the-dollar (tantamount to a 30 per cent wage gap) has been widely discredited.
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October 30, 2015
11:00AM
With independent school enrolment rising even as the school-age population shrinks, the share of students enrolled in independent schools is growing all across the country.
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October 30, 2015
4:00AM
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge said in 1925 that “The chief business of the American people is business,” a line often mis-quoted as “The business of America is business.” No Canadian prime minister has ever dared be so pro-business.
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October 29, 2015
1:28PM
Forecasting oil prices is fraught with difficulty, so it's imperative that the government use the most reliable and up-to-date estimates available.
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