We don’t automatically promote bad drivers –so why would we promote students until they’ve mastered their grade?
Year: 2010
Environmental Lessons From The Late Stephen Schneider
“Stephen Schneider is on record that, to reduce the risk of climate change, it’s legitimate to quash one’s own doubts and offer up scary scenarios to the media. That is not exactly objective science.”
Climate Changes, Grain Exports and A New World Order in Food: Higher food prices may be coming at right time
There is hardly a crisis in agricultural commodities but rather a continuing recalibration between supply and demand.
Grades Should Reflect Achievement: Part 8 in an ongoing excerpt series on education from the Frontier Centre
In an attempt to get away from “unfair” grading, too many teachers are now forced to engage in complex calculations that are no improvement on more straightforward marking.
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Raw-Milk Prohibition Reveals Policy Backwardness
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
The Pawlowski Decision
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
Fair Elections Strong Indicator of High Performing First Nations: Statistical connection shows need for electoral reforms
Evidence from the Third Annual Aboriginal Governance Index reveals that First Nations with high Electoral rankings perform well overall. FC057
Why ‘Have’ Provinces are the New Have-Nots
“Alberta people and companies send about $40 billion a year to Ottawa in taxes and other payments. The feds return just $19 billion. Annual net loss to Albertans: $21 billion.”
Ottawa’s Peter Pan Budget: The new budget is not a serious attempt at reining in spending
The new federal budget was created on a wish and a prayer, on a hope the world economy recovers instead of soberly facing up to the possibility that Canada’s federal government should get our fiscal house in order.
Where Are Aboriginal Affairs in Canada Headed?
PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Lunch on the Frontier speech by Doug Bland in Winnipeg March 5, 2010. Watch while listening to related audio below.
Canada’s Cropland: Becoming Better Protected From Erosion: Canada’s soil is far healthier today than it was 20 years ago
Over the past 30 years, the percentage of Canada’s agricultural soil that is well-protected from soil erosion has steadily increased. FC056
Economic fallout upsets Canadian status quo, norms
“As the economic crisis hit, Canada may have been the best prepared among developed nations when it came to the strength of its banking sector and government finances, but it seems ill-prepared to handle the global fallout.”
Where’s Aboriginal Leadership on Human Rights?: How Ottawa let Mohawks practice evictions and undermine individual dignity
A Mohawk decision to evict non-members for the community should be opposed by Aboriginal organizations and the federal government because it denies basic human rights.
The Myths of Photo Radar Exposed: Automated traffic enforcement is not safe
PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Breakfast on the Frontier speech by Nancy Thomas in Winnipeg January 27, 2010. Watch while listening to related audio (see below).
Inequalities of Equalization Leave Ontarians Worse Off: Have-nots end up with better services than provinces that are paying the bills
In a Toronto Star column, the Chair of the Ontario Institute for Public Policy points out equalization harms Ontario.