Year: 2017

Day 22 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

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

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 – 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?

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...

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Weaponizing the Law

The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...

Day 14 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 14 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 14 - 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 14 we wish Ottawa and all provincial capitals would dramatically...

Day 13 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 13 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 13 - 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 13 we would like to see transformative, “out of the box” reform of...

The Myth of Indigenous Utopia

The Myth of Indigenous Utopia

Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Forced assimilation. Slavery. Racism. As much as mainstream history and traditional anthropology have shown these five phenomena to be near universal features of the human condition, they are mostly portrayed these days in the ivory tower,...

Day 12 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 12 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 12 - 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 12 we wish that Canadian government would bring in spending limit...

Day 11 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 11 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 11 - 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 11 we wish for an end to the legal persecution of Trinity Western...

How to Bring Peace to Palestine

How to Bring Peace to Palestine

The Canadian Government is sending $25,000,000 of taxpayers’ money[i] to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which is uniquely dedicated to supporting Palestine refugees.[ii] Some observers[iii] say that UNRWA actively supports Hamas, the Muslim...