There is a fine line between teaching and brainwashing. Teaching informs students about the world around them and helps them become critical thinkers. In contrast, brainwashing provides students with heavily skewed information that leads to one predetermined...
Year: 2017
The Environment: A True Story Part 5 – Climate Change Orthodoxy
Part 5 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
No Lands or Property… Shall Be Liable to Taxation
Section 125 of the Constitution Act, 1867, states: “No Lands or Property belonging to Canada or any Province shall be liable to Taxation.”1 This constitutional protection is at the center of many long standing arguments between the federal government and...
Robert MacBain discusses Gord Downie, Charlie Wenjack and Sir Edward Cornwallis on the Sheldon MacLeod Show on Halifax radio station 97.5.
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
The Urban Revival Is An Urban Myth, And The Suburbs Are Surging
The past decade has seen a gusher of books arguing for and detailing the supposed ascendency of dense urban cores, like the inimitable Edward Glaeser’s influential Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and...
Day 24 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 24 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 24 we wish for an end to Canada’s quixotic quest to change the...
Day 23 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 23 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 23 we wish that governments would make more use of the...
No More Secrets
In the span of 40 years, Canadian society has gone from paper files in cabinets, to electronic storage of everything from medical records, to what you had in your coffee at Starbucks this morning. Our lives have become itemized and catalogued into easily accessed...
Day 22 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 22 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On day 22 we would like Immigration to Canada to be in the Canadian...
Big Bear’s Story
Who was Big Bear? He was the last Chief to cave in and sign the infamous numbered treaties that confined aboriginals to reservations. Big Bear held out because he accurately foresaw the consequences of that policy. His story is important because his own tribe, starved...
Day 21 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 21 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 21 we wish for the repeal and replacement of the Indian Act and the...
What Is In a School’s Name?
It is getting close to Christmas. This makes it a good time to test our knowledge of Christianity and Christian charity. So, here is a question to ponder: When Christian churches founded schools in Canada, what names did they use? Perhaps you think that these schools...