One useful alternative to the current jail system is a military-style boot camp that could be located in the far north, away from society and accessible only by air. Here the gang member would follow the stiff regime of military-style character building.
Year: 2007
Let Dairy Farmers Sleep – We’ll Buy Somewhere Else
Canadians would all be better off if we closed down supply management and imported dairy products at world
prices.
An Inconvenient Price
Sums that are small relative to the cost of trying to fine-tune the planet’s climate could prevent scores of millions of deaths from AIDS, unsafe drinking water and other clear and present dangers.
Suburbs Attacked Because Middle-Class Hates Plumbers in Big Houses
Sixty years ago this month something happened on Long Island near New York that was to help shape Australian cities. It deserves to be better known. The first homeowners moved into Levittown, a 17,000-residence housing estate built by Bill Levitt. Essentially, Levitt...
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
Climate Change in Disarray – An African Perspective
A Professor Emeritus from Pretoria, South Africa attributes changes in weather to variations in solar activity not man-made CO2 emissions.
Trapped in the Aboriginal Narrative
All across the land, native leaders are beating the drums for tomorrow's National Day of Action. The point of the protests, they claim, is to "educate" the rest of us about the terrible conditions endured by aboriginals. "Poverty among Canada's first nations peoples...
Climate History
The history of climate going back to the fourth century BC is one of constant change.
Wheat Board Accused of Costing Farmers Millions in Lost Revenue
A report from a conservative think-tank says the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk marketing system is costing prairie farmers hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost revenue.
Kim Sigurdson, Businessman and Aboriginal Advocate
Frontier’s conversation with Kim Sigurdson
Set Their Catches Free
‘Fresh’ approach to fish marketing long overdue
Is This Really a Bright Idea?
Banning incandescent light bulbs seems to be all the rage these days, Australia's gone first, the European Union seems to want to do so and there are various state laws being mulled over at present (see the how many legislators does it take to change a light bulb?...
In Defense Of Sprawl
If you really want to see urban sprawl, take a look at London. Yes, it's true that Britain has some of the toughest anti-sprawl measures in the world today. But I mean 19th-century London--the miles and miles of brick row houses in Camberwell and Islington. If sprawl...
China Bars Corn Ethanol Due to High Food Costs
China has just banned further expansion of its corn ethanol industry, after a radical 43-percent increase in pork prices over the past year. Xu Dingming of the Chinese National Energy Leading Group told a recent seminar that “Food-based ethanol fuel will not be the...