Frontier Centre for Public Policy - Calgary's Business

CMHC nudging more aggressively into housing market

Posted by Ian Madsen | Aug 4, 2019

The risk of housing price declines piles onto the risk CMHC already takes on when insuring mortgages

Posted by Brian Giesbrecht | Aug 1, 2019

Americans need water and we have it. Canadians should begin to look at water as a commodity – the blue gold that it is.

The result has significantly dampened the Canadian economy. Banks, not legislated stress tests, know best who can pay for houses

Posted by Gerry Bowler | Jul 30, 2019

You don’t discourage bad behaviour by making it easier and more pleasant to engage in. Except Canadians have when it comes to gambling and drug use

Posted by Ian Madsen | Jul 29, 2019

Employing a version of Modern Monetary Theory to spend our way to a heightened state of environmental stewardship could cause more harm than good