As the federal government introduces reforms to the dysfunctional asylum system in Canada, there will be outcries of inhumanity. New rules aim at smugglers and the smuggled into the country. They represent a sound contribution to stem the flow of the illegitimate claims that have brought our asylum system to near paralysis.
Year: 2010
Time To Hold Climate Doomsayers To Account
The false idea is presented out of context then left uncorrected by lack of follow up. This is especially true if the story is a prediction. We need a media vehicle to analyze the story in context followed by the aftermath. It’s time for a program on which doomsayers who profited financially or politically from false stories and predictions confronted and held to account.
President Václav Klaus: Inaugural Annual GWPF Lecture
The Climate Change Doctrine is Part of Environmentalism, Not of Science It is a great honor for me to be here tonight, getting a chance to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to such a distinguished audience. Even though it may seem...
Political Currents in Quebec Shifting to the Right: A New Conservative Movements Emerges
A new political movement was launched in Quebec City on the weekend (October 23).The movement is an expression of the frustrations of a new generation with the excesses of the previous one. It aims not a forming a political party, but at bringing together libertarian and conservative Quebeckers to produce a cultural shift.
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Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
Leaders on the Frontier | So Much More We Can Be with the Hon. Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan 1982-1991
The April 1982 Saskatchewan election proved to be a major turning point in the province's history. Over its nine years in office, the Devine government commenced and completed numerous policy initiatives in spite of considerable challenges including two recessions. ...
Politicizing The Climate Science Debate Has Boosted Alarmism
When the political affiliations of the most outspoken participants are examined, be they special interest lobbyists, scientists, politicians, media or even ordinary citizens, political polarization is readily apparent.
Bipole Debate is Charging Manitobans Up: Investing in First Nations on east side saves more
A new poll shows more Manitobans favour running a hydro line on the east side rather than the west side, which raises the issue of whether investing in First Nation communities on the east side would be better use of money.
How Mainstreaming Can Hurt Disabled And Regular Students: Part 3 in an ongoing excerpt series on education from the Frontier Centre
Mainstreaming every kid may not always make sense.
Students Need More Lectures: Direct instruction is good teaching
Teachers are often discouraged from lecturing students but students in traditional classrooms outperform those taught primarily through “problem solving” techniques.
It’s Time To Focus On Healing
I refer to your column in the Winnipeg Free Press on July 9th, “It’s time to focus on healing”, where you appear to encourage moving on in the Residential Schools issue. Over the years I have spoken to a considerable number of former staff members, teachers and students from the Indian Residential Schools and I can assure you, from my perspective, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will discover very little of the truth they are seeking and there will never be a true and full reconciliation. More — email from Bill Steele, Winnipeg
Manitoba First Nations falling behind, survey says
“Indian bands in Manitoba are falling behind those in Saskatchewan and Alberta when it comes to improving governance institutions, a new survey has found.”
Canada’s New, Culture-Driven Abuse Of Women And Girls: Honour killings come from problems in culture
Back in June, in an “honour-killing” murder trial now known across Canada, Muhammad Parvez and Waqas Parvez pleaded guilty to the 2007 murder of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez (their daughter/sister respectively). According to media reports, not one of the twelve people...
Climate Science Hits New Desperate Low: The battle to perpetuate the false IPCC science is fighting a rearguard action with yet another consensus attack
“Polls show people are no longer concerned by claims humans are causing global warming or climate change. They consistently place very low or are not even listed. Most still don’t understand the science, but a couple of cold winters raised doubts.”
Toward Creating Sustainable Transit
“Introducing competition and competitive contracting into a system now dominated by union and operating monopolies, combined with a shift in reliance from rail to buses, would go a long way toward curbing costs and increasing productivity.”