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 Re: Residential Schools Propaganda? August 08, 2008I always enjoy getting updates from Frontier and reading what you have to say. I just wanted to comment on the residential school article about the fact there was also good that went on. My mother-in-law who had only positive experiences at her school and has nothing ill to say about it received a cheque last year for 35,000 no questions asked and was told there would be more. More -- E-mail from Pauline, Ontario Re: What Does the End of Cheap Oil Mean to our Urban Future? August 05, 2008I share Mr. McShane's confidence in the ability of our market system to solve the effects of a higher oil price and to deliver an even more productive economy in the process -- if -- and it's a big if. Mr. McShane makes the point in his 2nd-last sentence. "That is what we are all so good at -- provided no 'wise elite' decides to make our decisions for us." More -- E-mail from David Barber, Director of the Cordillera Institute, Toronto Re: Conversation on the Frontier with Lawrence Solomon July 18, 2008While I think that it is appropriate to retain a stance of sober objectivity, and even skepticism with respect to global warming, it seems that we are in a period of general warming, judging by the evidence of mountain glaciers and polar ice.
However, this trend has been going on for over 150 years, starting long before human activity or carbon dioxide production had significant influence on the atmosphere. The longer trend extends from the last ice age. More -- E-mail from Kolkatta, India
Re: The Residential School Money Pit June 12, 2008I want to congratulate and thank Don Sandberg for his honest, candid and courageous article on residential schools in today's WFP. We need more articles like this from people like you who can sift through the mis-information and partial truths. I have thought for some time that we have not been getting the full story and now am grateful for at least some confirmation. If there are other articles like this which you can direct me to, I'd be grateful. More -- E-mail from Derek Denwood
Re: Another View on Residential Schools June 12, 2008This is best and most accurate story about the residential schools that I have read. Why isn't it more publicized instead of all the negative stories about the schools. There were some bad things about them but the idea was good. -E-mail from Winnipeg Re: The Residential School Money Pit June 11, 2008Many thanks for the comments contained in the Email Update (Residential Schools Story not that Simple) and in the June 11, 2008 Winnipeg Free Press column (P. A15) by Don Sandberg. Both were incredibly appropriate. I was once very much involved with the aboriginal community and later became an instructor at a Residential School. While I am certain that there would have been abuses in some Schools, I am just as certain that the incidences of such abuse were less than in the general population. More -- E-mail from Winnipeg
Re: Auditor General Has Point On First Nation Finances June 11, 2008Thanks to Joseph Quesnel for his recent article on aboriginal spending. Some time ago, I was the author of a letter printed in the Hamilton Spectator on this very same theme. I'm sure I'm not the only Canadian taxpayer who is extremely concerned about the lack of accountability for the monies we so generously allocate to natives. -- E-mail from Barbara Joy
Re: The End Of The Fake Consensus On Global Warming June 09, 2008I think "global warming" is settled. It is BUNK. I don't know who dreamed this up, or why, but it diverts our attention from solving real problems such as finding alternatives to oil, pollution and environmental destruction — not to mention starvation and disease. -E-mail from Regina Re: Indigenous Peoples from an International Perspective May 16, 2008It seems to me that we in Canada may be looking at things the wrong way. Is it that there are problems on Indian Reserves, or is it that the whole archaic concept of Indian Reserves is the problem? The bottom line is, the Cook Islands are doing very well thank you; NO RESERVES HERE.
More - E-mail from Bob Foster, Winnipeg, MB
Re: The End Of The Fake Consensus On Global Warming May 12, 2008Now, does that mean that our CO-2 discharges don’t affect our climate? If you have ever been to a bar before smoking was banned, think of yourself in a small room filled with a cloud of cigarette smoke for 4 hours. Of course there is an effect. I also believe in the solar heat idea. Stand back from a boiler and it’s not so bad. Move closer and you get hotter. Duh!
More - E-mail from North Vancouver, BC Re: Smart Green Climate Change Quiz April 27, 2008While Al Gore bounces around the stage at whim..why not get Oprah to hear the *other* side..I think it might ease some peoples pain..lots of fearmongering going on. - Email from Mrs. Vaughn, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Re: The Transfers Trap April 07, 2008I enjoyed your article in this morning’s Winnipeg Free Press titled “The Transfers Trap”. I think this is a very valid, important issue that Manitobans need to understand. However, I think the average Manitoban has very little understanding of this issue and all of the issues surrounding it. This article was written assuming a high level of education on this issue, which I think is lacking. Please continue to talk about this but I would suggest keeping it as simple as possible in future articles as it is a hard one to understand. I think you would then reach a larger audience. This is so important it would be nice if the average Manitoban understood what was really going on. - E-mail from Winnipeg Re: An Answer from When Ontario Comes Calling April 07, 2008Fantastic article on transfer payments....I just sold my biz in MB and moving..no wonder! 50 years is enough. E-mail from Winnipeg Re: Which Best Helps the Poor? February 19, 2008
Great work. Enjoyed David Pankratz's brief on the issue of minimum wage as well as your op-ed. It is great seeing that level of information provided and hopefully serves to educate the general public in the government's misdirected attempts to address poverty. E-mail from Winnipeg
Re: Euro-Canada Consumer Health Index January 25, 2008The ECCHI is a comprehensive and revealing report on the state of health care. I applaud everyone at FCPP who contributed to making Canada part of this important study. The results are rather shocking and upsetting for many Canadians but will be invaluable if they encourage a renewed interest in the evolution of our health system to a model that is responsive to the needs of an increasingly informed and empowered population.
Well Done! - Dr. Vaughan Glover (Pres and Founding Member of the Canadian Association for People-Centred Health)
Re: Euro-Canada Consumer Health Index January 25, 2008Congratulations on your report. It is a major wake up call to Canadians. - Dr. Brian Day, President of the Canadian Medical Association Re: Euro-Canada Consumer Health Index January 22, 2008Very professional and objective study. Congratulations. Dr. Jacques Chaoulli Re: What Best Helps the Poor? January 17, 2008Bravo on your health care work and also on David Pankratz's research on tax policy and poverty! -E-mail from Winnipeg Re: New Funding for Native Entrepreneurs Positive Move January 14, 2008Excellent article on a subject most Canadian have no knowledge. You might follow this up with one documenting the number of successful actions against organizations that do not follow proper procedure re terminating employees who have 'offended' someone of importance. E-mail from Manitoba Re: Eat Beef to Help the Environment January 11, 2008Please congratulate Robert Supuck for his great article appearing in to-days National Post. It's too bad more of the so called environmentalists don't share his views. E-mail from Gerry Kaumeyer
Re: Our misplaced priorities . . . January 08, 2008In my view, the most important environmental issue facing the world today is the fact that one billion of the world's population lives on less than $1.00 a day. excerpt from letter by Andy Wells, Mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland Read entire letter Re: Environmental Policy: More Science and Less Religion Please December 18, 2007 After reading your headline, "More Science and Less Religion Please," I open the correspondence you send to find a quote by Chesterton, the author of Orthodoxy, and a story about the pope taking a swipe at the global warming crowd? LOL...Less religion please... LOL This is too funny! (Forgive me you guys, but I couldn't stop laughing when I saw how this was presented!)
As I am sure you know, Chesterton consistently and always referred to himself as an "Orthodox Christian," and is regarded by both religious liberals and religious conservatives as one of theirs. You have to admit that a "less religion please" headline, in an online newsletter with a Chesterton quote that supposedly affirms such a headline, followed by an article about of all people, the pope, has to make somebody laugh...
Keep up the good work. I love what you do; you do it well; but I do think you may want to rethink suggesting that science and religion are at odds... A whole lot of people, including many great scientific thinkers, would take exception to such an idea. More . . .
E-mail from Kevin Avram, Arizona Re: 2007 LGPI December 02, 2007I was very pleased to download and review the above mentioned report. It was very good.
Accurate financial reporting is the main concern for municipalities. My experience in reviewing financial statements and other local government reports across the country reflects more bad reporting than acceptable data.
This is not good for democracy. More . . . E-mail from Ottawa
Re: Toronto summary December 01, 2007I think the authors of this report appear to not understand anything about the City of Toronto or its budgeting process whatsoever. Toronto Mayor David Miller - Read Frontier's reply - Our research has not been in any way, to quote Mr Millar, 'shoddy'. It has been hampered though by very poor public information coming out of Toronto and many other Canadian city's annual financial reports. more . . . Re: Your Land is not Your Land November 21, 2007You published an absolutely stunning article, let me congratulate you for choice of words and facts to support it.
I am sure it will serve as an eye opener for those who don't yet understand that they have no rights nor freedoms.
I'd be honoured to shake your hand one day!
E-mail from Ontario
Re: Window on Two Policy Models October 27, 2007The article in View from the West by David Seymour (Tale of two telcos, Oct. 24) confirms my opinion expressed several months ago about the sale of MTS by the "bad ship Tories". Seymour has facts not available to me that shows a government-run phone system cannot move fast enough to keep up with the changes in this rapidly changing business. Perhaps Gary Filmon and company recognized this and acted as a responsible government should and divested itself of a Crown corporation at a good time. The facts in Seymour's article show that the provincial government has benefited by this privatization. While I do not see anything wrong with Crown corporations, I do see the danger of government interference in their decisions. The imposed decision by Gary Doer to run the hydro line down the west side of the lake is a prime example of wrongheaded decision-making and interference in decisions best left to engineers, not politicians. George E. Poulter, Letter to Editor, Winnipeg Free Press
Re: Drug Dealers and Global Warming September 25, 2007I wouldn't claim to have assimilated all the information available, and I'm perfectly prepared to agree that the present global warming may be part of a natural trend. But to pretend that human activities over the past couple of centuries have had no effect at all on the situation is stubborn ignorance carried to criminal levels. Peter Lacey, Winnipeg Re: Polar Bear as Poster Animal April 16, 2007We view the actions of the petitioners (Greenpeace, the Centre for Biological Diversity and the Natural Resources Defense Council) as being for purely political and fundraising purposes. We have pointed out to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife services that the petitioners in no way speak on behalf of the rights and interests of Inuit. - Letter to the Editor - National Post, Mary Simon, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Re: Cheaper Government Auto Insurance? February 10, 2007I was always under the faulty impression that our provincial autopac program brought in car insurance so much cheaper than what was paid in other provinces. I found [the] article very informative -- like a fine wine, [the writer] just gets better with age. E-mail from Portage la Prairie Re: An Environmental Policy for the 21st Century October 13, 2005I have just reviewed your paper on Smart and Green principles. I want to congratulate you for crafting such a thoughtful and intellectually-rigorous document. E-mail from Manitoba Read More Comments... Send us yours... | ||||||
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