City council recently voted unanimously to support a 20-year plan aimed at reducing poverty in Toronto—a laudable initiative if council avoids enacting policies that may do more harm than good.
Blog - Fraser Forum
November 10, 2015
4:00AM
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November 9, 2015
10:30AM
The Quebec secondary school rankings are out and once again they offer evidence that, at some schools, academic results are improving.
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November 9, 2015
4:00AM
There’s no shortage of issues facing the new Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister, Carolyn Bennett, including the state of housing and infrastructure on reserves.
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November 6, 2015
12:44PM
President Obama has finally rejected the Keystone XL pipeline.
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November 6, 2015
8:53AM
An "implicit tax" is implicit only in the sense that it doesn’t officially appear in the income tax code.
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November 6, 2015
4:00AM
As one of his first policy proposals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to replace Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system with a system that “[better] reflects and represents” Canadians and makes “every vote count.”
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November 5, 2015
12:34PM
Years of adhering to the status-quo and simply pumping money into the system has done little to address the fundamental problems with Canada's health-care system.
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November 5, 2015
4:00AM
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.
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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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