Visiting the Globe Theatre in London, England is an unforgettable experience. When viewing the modest grounds, and realizing that the “groundlings” - the people in the cheap seats - were sometimes privileged to see original Shakespeare plays, it brings home the long...
A video produced by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy's Smart Green Project (www.fcpp.org) in 2008. Updating the message here - according to Nature Canada wind turbines kill approximately 8.2 birds per turbine per year. In 2017 Canada had 6590 installed turbines...
Among the most stress-filled possible jobs, undoubtedly there is one new CEO opening that will top most of them – the Chief Mail Delivery Officer for Canada. There are many iconic symbols of Canada, but, if it ever was one, Canada Post certainly has long ceded that...
They’re aiming for a unique accomplishment in Pugwash on Thursday night. A group of citizens will try to host a constructive, rational debate on the merits of fracking. And then, perhaps even more ambitiously, they’re going to try for a discussion where everyone...
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
“It’s Time for High-Performance Government,” Howard Risher says in his 2017 book. Amen to that. But how? Risher says, it’s not about efficiency, it’s about making workers engaged. And on that score, government is 30 years behind the curve. The 1990’s began with a...
I must confess to a crime. Many years ago, when I was still in my twenties, I was enjoying a late night non-alcoholic beverage with an old friend from my high school days. Our talk turned to the teachers we had had in our adolescence, some of whom we revered, some of...
Michael Zwaagstra is an educator, an author and a regular contributor to the work of the Frontier Institute. He's coming to researchED Ontario to talk about his belief that the importance of content knowledge cannot be underestimated when it comes to learning at all...
The meek will inherit the earth…if that’s okay with everybody else,” says the old joke. When it comes to developing Canada’s energy sector, that trite joke seems all-too-true. The Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Pacific Northwest LNG Pipeline proposals have been...
Equality, of course, is one of the hallowed values of the post-Enlightenment West, celebrated in the French revolutionary slogan, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” and in the American Declaration of Independence,[1] which asserts that it is “self-evident” that “all men...
My parents met during “the dirty thirties,” depression years, when life was tough. They were both teachers in small schools on the prairies. My father was older than my mother, and after a brief courtship they married. There is nothing unusual about that story. In...
Unnecessary and populist-driven moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) are denying “have not” provinces much needed jobs and revenue. Inadvertently, these moratoriums are also denying over-taxed citizens opportunities to relieve their tax burden. British...
Think about it. What would the death of six million people look like in the Canadian population? A loss of that number would be equivalent to the annihilation of every single person in the following cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London, and Halifax....
The preliminary report forecasts that it will take $30 billion to $55 billion to complete. Experience suggests costs would likely be much higher. There are two principal problems. The first is that high-speed rail routinely costs much more than planned. The second is...