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...
Year: 2017
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 - 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...
Senior Fellow Michael Zwaagstra is interviewed by Danielle Smith about the recent controversial motion made by newly elected trustee Lisa Davis seeking to create "third-party math monitoring" to ensure students achieve the learning improvements they deserve in math...
Featured News
Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Marijuana Won’t Pay the Bills
Legalize and tax marijuana and the budget will balance itself. Marijuana advocates from stoners to recreational users to the Prime Minister have tried to convince us of this for years. It makes some sense that a product so commonly used should be regulated, not...
Misinformation Being Taught to Canadian School Children
Teachers in more than 40,000 classrooms across Canada are providing their students with false information about the tragic death of young Chanie Wenjack whose frozen body was found curled up beside a railway track in northwestern Ontario on October 23, 1966. The...
The Environment: A True Story Episode 2 – All Environmentalists Now
Part 2 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
The Default’s In the Details: How Predatory Lending Practices Doomed the Meadow Lake Pulp Mill
It has been decades since the Devine government was in power in Saskatchewan, but traces of his economic decisions are still remnant in the province today. The 1980s were full of economic turmoil for Saskatchewan, commodity price collapse, extreme weather conditions...
Giving Canadian Teachers a Voice
Teaching is a challenging job. Anyone who has spent a few days in a school knows that teachers have a lot of demands placed upon them. Their responsibilities often go far beyond basic classroom instruction. From dealing with disruptive student behaviours to organizing...
The Rise of Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
At one of Canada’s elite universities, McGill University in Montreal, a series of disturbing anti-Semitic incidents have drawn wide attention and unsettled Jewish students and faculty members. There have been repeated campaigns to “Boycott, Divest, and Sanction”(BDS)...
Public Choice Alternatives: A Valuation of ATB Financial
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Public Choice Alternatives: A Valuation of ATB Financial. This is the second paper in the Public Choice Alternatives series authored by Ian Madsen, a senior research analyst with Frontier Centre for Public...
World Bank ‘Ease of Doing Business’ Ranks Canada Dismally, Again
The World Bank just issued its annual ‘Ease of Doing Business’ report for 190 countries and territories. Again, Canada was not near the top. It was 18th. Small New Zealand was first, Singapore was 2nd, and Denmark was 3rd. Even our main trading partner, the US, was...
A Social Justice Vision for Sports
The foundational principle of social justice is that people in each and every societal category and class should be treated equally, and have equal benefit and respect in every social context. This means that every group and every unit of society, including sports...