Rural crime has received a lot of attention lately. For Douglas Cuthand, an Indigenous Saskatchewan columnist, the phrase ‘rural crime‘ is code for crimes committed by Indigenous thugs. In Saskatchewan, and likely for Alberta and Manitoba as well, an Indigenous man is...
The Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Inquiry (MMIW) was back in the news recently. They asked the federal government for a two year extension on their mandate, and an additional $50,000,000. They have apparently already burned through the $54,000,000 they had...
Universities in the 20th century were dedicated to the advancement of knowledge. Scholarship and research were pursued, and diverse opinions were exchanged and argued in the “marketplace of ideas.” This is no longer the case. Particularly in the social sciences,...
Many advocates for cultural diversity have a sudden change of heart when the topic turns to Canada's "cultural industries." As they say in Argentina, for money, the monkey will dance. What constitutes Canadian heritage, given her complex milieu, tends to be in the eye...
This past weekend, we learned of the tragic and unexpected passing of Pastor Leon Fontaine at 59 years of age. Leon was a gifted leader playing many roles both nationally and internationally. He was, with his wife Sally, the senior Pastors at Springs Church with...
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
GDPR. General Data Protection Regulations sounds like something that the average person needs to know nothing about, but on the contrary, they affect us on a day-to-day basis. There was a time, for the last 20 years, where most jurisdictions had similar requirements...
New Zealand’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Phil Twyford reasserted the coalition government’s intention to abolish Auckland’s urban growth boundary at a recent environmental summit. Environmental Defense Society (EDS) CEO Gary Taylor expressed concern...
WINNIPEG, MB, September 24, 2018 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Public Choice Alternative: ICBC by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper conducts an in depth valuation of the alternative...
Canadians enjoy the escapism of movies and television. Is it just harmless entertainment or does this stuff have an actual tangible effect on our social behaviors? Today's society is the most entertainment focused of all time. Some would argue that our media simple...
Canada’s multiculturalism policy came together largely in response to the strong separatist movement that took hold in Quebec during the 1970s. Those were the days of the firebrand Rene Levesque and the extreme Rose brothers. Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government...
Maruhaeremuri Nihoniho, 45, probably never suspected that her childhood days playing arcade games like Space Invaders and later playing home video games like Tomb Raider would guide her to becoming an award-winning Indigenous video game designer today. Nihoniho...
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is a provincial Crown corporation established and mandated by the Insurance Corporation Act, Insurance (Vehicle) Act and the Motor Vehicle Act.i The raison d'etre of ICBC is to provide universal compulsory auto...
It would be hard to think of a period in human history where social attitudes have changed at the dizzying speed which they are doing so today. In the past few decades, traditional sexual mores have been severely eroded, long-established concepts of marriage declared...
As a regular attendee of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, I have had the good fortune to watch and hear a wide variety of interesting musicians over the years. One such performance was that of an Indigenous rap singer. His main theme in a number of his songs was treaty...