“A Southern Alberta native chief has cancelled a band election set for next month, extending his term by two years and provoking a protest blockade of the road into a reserve west of Calgary.”
Year: 2010
AFN’s Opposition To Band Salary Disclosure A ‘Slap In Face’ To First Nations: Larger solution is creating relationship of financial accountability
The Assembly of First Nations is dead wrong in opposing a bill disclosing chief and council salaries as it would advance transparency on First Nation communities.
Climate History Key to Future: Inuit Travels Provide Political Direction
“Manipulation of global temperature data to prop up claims of current global temperatures being the warmest on record due to human production of CO2 continue. Meanwhile nature ignores the false science. Solar activity declines, global temperatures decline and both will continue to do so.”
Dairy Farmers Still Milking All Of Us
“Supply management has remained basically unchanged since its inception more than 40 years ago. It has enriched dairy farmers, blackened Canada’s reputation as a free trading nation, forced Canadians to pay a hidden regressive tax on dairy products at the checkout counter and undermined the efficiency of both dairy farmers and commercial users of dairy products.”
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No Evidence of Climate Crisis
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
It Is Time to Move On
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
Horrific And Protected By Political Correctness
“Rona Ambrose, minister for the status of women, recently announced that the government is considering creating a special section in the Criminal Code for honour killings.”
Send for the Wonks: A new government creates a new opportunity to influence policy
Public services may be facing cutbacks, but the right-of-centre think-tanks are enjoying a boom.
Residential Schools Generate Anger But Also Pride
There are fundamental questions which have never been answered by those who condemn the residential school system. Were we to leave people by virtue of no common language, illiterate, innumerate and unable to deal with the larger society?
The Need to Expand Personal Mobility
“Reinventing the Automobile conveys a strong message that improved personal mobility is necessary and desirable.”
Direct Instruction Is Good Teaching: Part 6 in an ongoing excerpt series on education from the Frontier Centre
Teachers who use direct instruction assume that students are not experts and if their misinterpretations are not corrected, then the students will have an inadequate understanding of the subject matter.
Keynes Is Still Dead: Stimulus efforts have been a failure
Keynes died in 1946; his ideas are long overdue for a burial as well.
Tipping Points Are Natural; Environmentalists Exploit Them: Natural ecosystems and animal populations go through boom or bust patterns in response to climate cycles
“The hypothesis that dangerous human-caused climate change will create rapid change beyond the adaptive capacity of human society and natural systems is based on two fallacies.”
Classrooms Should Be Teacher-Centered: Part 5 in an ongoing excerpt series on education from the Frontier Centre
Forget child-centered classrooms. How about teacher-centered classrooms for a change?
The Traditional Census is Dying, and a Good Thing Too: Leviathan’s spyglass
America’s constitution requires it to conduct a shoe-leather census, which is why this year’s effort is going to cost it over $11 billion. The Finns, by contrast, spent about €1m ($1.2m) on their last one. That’s about $36 per head in America and 20 cents in Finland. Denmark has been keeping track of its citizens without a traditional census for decades; Sweden, Norway, Finland and Slovenia, among others, have similar systems. Germany will adopt the approach for its next count, also due in 2011.