PowerPoint slides from the Lunch on the Frontier presenation by Swedish human rights lawyer Jan Södergren, October 2, 2007.
Year: 2007
Hot World? Blame Cities.
It's all the suburbs' fault. You know, everything – traffic congestion, overweight kids, social alienation. Oh, and lest we forget, global warming and rising energy costs, too. That latest knock against the burbs has caught on widely. With their multiplying McMansions...
Breakfast on the Frontier – Transition of a Manufacturing Goods Company – With Michael Silver
Listen to Michael Silver speak about the evolution of the manufacturing industry here. (33 minutes)
SaskEd Measures Up
What isn’t measured isn’t done, and compared to Manitoba, Saskatchewan is leading the way on measuring education results.
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COVID-19 Emergency Powers Nearly Limitless
The war against the invisible enemy of COVID-19 has unfortunately made normal rights and freedoms invisible as well. Another example manifested on September 13 when Saskatchewan’s premier renewed emergency orders for his province. The list of powers he claimed were so...
The Sin of CO2
In a couple of hundred years, historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the 10th century as the Christian millennium approached. Then, as now, the doomsters identified human...
Will Organic Farming Save the World?
A sentimental naïvety is no substitute for the hard calculation of costs and benefits. Organic farming on a wide scale would entail more environment destruction than it’s worth.
Maoris Bring Perspectives on Youth Issues, Gangs
Here is coverage of event sponsored by the Frontier Centre - unfortunately the paper ommitted who the sponsor was. Online reviews of novelist and newspaper columnist Alan Duff’s work point out that his “somewhat simplistic message has proved highly controversial.”...
Maori Speakers Tour Canada
Allan Duff and Henare O’Keefe traveled from Vancouver to Halifax in May and the two Maori men made several stops along the way. The trip was sponsored by the Winnipeg based Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP). Duff continually bashed away at the Maori leadership...
Where Manitoba Stands in 2007
Manitoba’s 2007 election campaign could have been a chapter in Alice in Wonderland. While the province’s economy continues to slide, politicians are not discussing either the reasons for the slide or solutions to it.
Getting it All Out in the Open
A couple of Maori men toured the country this month promoting their successful child literacy program and making it very clear that they’ve done it without the support of the Indigenous leaders in their country. Along the way they’ve provided a great deal of fodder...
Some random thoughts on Sales, Marketing and Fair Trading.
While Dairy products are fetching ever higher prices, wool prices are languishing. Worse, the leaders of the industry seem resigned to their fate. This is surely remarkable. At a time when everyone from Dictators to ditch-diggers is besotted by things “natural” surely...
Our Two “Established” Religions
The Third Asia-Pacific Regional Interfaith Dialogue, held at Waitangi earlier this year, pointed up some of the ironies which have developed in New Zealand’s own relationship between Church and State. The major functionaries were somewhat upstaged by the presence of...
Imminent Collapse
The whole climate change issue is rapidly degenerating into confrontation and collapse on a number of levels from local to international. Prospects of international cooperative measures to reduce undesirable greenhouse gas emissions (GGEs) are receding by the day. The...