Year: 2017

Day 15 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 15 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 15 - 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 15 we wish that Alberta would deposit 30% of resource revenue into...

Procurement and Entrepreneurship

Procurement and Entrepreneurship

WINNIPEG, MB, December 13, 2017 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new research paper Procurement and Entrepreneurship. This research paper is authored by Joshua Morry, a research associate with Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The paper...

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...

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Traditional Teaching is not Obsolete

Artificial intelligence has come a long way. Unlike the rudimentary software of the past, modern-day programs such as ChatGPT are truly impressive. Whether you need a 1,000-word essay summarizing the history of Manitoba, a 500-word article extolling the virtues of...

Content Knowledge Is The Key

Content Knowledge Is The Key

"The older teacher thought first of his subject matter, that it get learned... The good teacher of the newer view well understands how it is the process itself, especially as socially conditioned that educates; and he makes every effort to get and keep the process...

Avalanches of Global Warming Alarmism

Avalanches of Global Warming Alarmism

Throughout the United Nations Climate Change Conference wrapping up in Bonn, Germany this week, the world has been inundated with the usual avalanche of manmade global warming alarmism. The UN expects us to believe that extreme weather, shrinking sea ice, and sea...

Firewater

Firewater

The “60s’ Scoop” has been much in the news recently, and I expect that we will hear much more about it in the coming weeks and years. In fact, I am guessing that there are already plans to make it the subject of the next national inquiry, soon after the Missing...

A recent study claims that 90 per cent of classes in Alberta are way over the provincial standard of 17 students per class. But how much do class sizes affect a child’s learning process? Michael Zwaagstra, a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre joins Rob...