Today, the McDonald-Laurier Institute, a brand new think tank in Ottawa, Canada, launched it’s website. This organization was just founded last year by Brian Lee-Crowley,  whom many of our readers know,  and will promote sound public policy on a national level. The aim of the organization is to restore understanding and respect for the founding [...]

Danielle Smith just this weekend was elected leader of the Wildrose Alliance a new political party in Canada. This party, which has one seat in the Alberta legislature, is gaining traction in the province and with Smith newly at the helm it should be exciting to see the steps forward they take.
Danielle was formerly the [...]

Countries like Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania have been at the forefront of a trend towards implementing low flat tax rates for both personal and corporate taxes. David Seymour over at the Saskatchewan branch of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy is now making the case that they don’t have to be the only people to [...]

Canada is of strategic importance, not only for bilateral relations with the United States, but also as a multi-lateral force around the world, at least in security terms.  A little over a month ago, I attended a conference in Kingston-Ontario that was hosted by Queen’s University.  This particular conference  focused on Canada’s military role in [...]

Atlas’s annual  Atlas Experience in Niagara on the Lake, Canada is fast approaching. Join us for a weekend of intimate discussions on liberty, exciting excursions to Niagara Falls and the areas wineries and enjoy the company of other freedom lovers from around the world.
Special guests at this  year’s event include: Larry Reed (Foundation for Economic [...]

As many know, liberty oriented summer camps are taking place around the world this summer, these are an opportunity to meet and discuss free market ideas with young people, and to hear from excellent speakers.
Next week the Institute for Liberal Studies will be hosting it’s annual Summer Seminar out  in the wilderness of Canada. This [...]

A week ago, I traveled to Kingston Ontario, Canada for a conference on Latin America titled “At Home in the Americas: Canada, the US and Hemispheric Security.” This was the fourth annual conference co-sponsored by the Queen’s Centre for International Relations, Royal Canadian Military, and the US Army War College. Skipping the conference presentations, which [...]

The key component of the  Think Tanks for a Secure Free Society mission is to promote the work of think tanks that “Engage in issues where economics intersects with security, intelligence, and defense.”   While this network is continually developing, we have been able to identify a handful of experts that are well versed in both [...]

The Fraser Institute has launched a new contest to identify economic and public policy issues which still require proper measurement in order to facilitate meaningful analysis and public discourse. The Essay Contest for Excellence in the Pursuit of Measurement is an opportunity for the public to comment on an economic or public policy issue that [...]

The Frontier Centre for Public Policy in collaboration with their Brussels-based partners at the Health Consumer Powerhouse just released the 2008 Canada Healthcare Consumer Index. For the first time, Canadians will be able to assess the consumer responsiveness of their province’s healthcare system against the rest of the country.
This study reveals that Canadians in different [...]