In January and February, the Canadian public watched as COVID-19 was announced in China. It spread to Italy, then to Germany, Spain, France, and then to the UK. The media, fascinated by the ratings they were receiving by covering the disease, relentlessly extolled the...
Let’s face it, 2020 sucked. It was one of those years that people will remember their whole lives, the kind to judge all others by. The sort of year that, in the future, when your house burns down, your son flunks out of clown college, and your dog dies, you will be...
The Jean Allard I knew was a big man, a strong man, forceful, utterly determined. He had an adequate sense of his worth, but that was based more upon his ideas than on hubris. He had seen enough of the world’s troubles to have the essential humility of one who never...
Caught between a rock and a hard place. This best sums up the position that the UCP government recently found itself in as it announced new, stricter lockdown measures for Christmas across the province of Alberta. The government is attempting to “bend” the rising...
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...
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Canada’s COVID-19 Strategy is an Assault on the Working Class By Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin Kulldorff American Institute for Economic Research Lockdowns have generated enormous collateral damage on other health outcomes, such as plummeting childhood vaccination...
University administrators and student unions are tearing down something more important than statues. These self-appointed censors are dismantling the dialectic method bequeathed to us from Socrates and generations of scholars, triggering a brain drain away from...
Frontier Centre Senior Fellows, Marco Navarro-Génie and Barry Cooper, join Sheila Gunn Reid (The Gunn Show - Rebel News) to discuss their new book on the Canadian government's reaction to COVID-19. COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political...
The recent lobster fishery dispute shows us that, for the sake of the survival of Canada’s fish and lobster stocks, and to uphold the rule of law, Canadian governments must exercise their constitutional duty to prohibit illegal Indigenous fishing. Indigenous people...
Aboriginal activists and their allies in Canada periodically engage in what they call "economic obstruction" against mining, oil, or logging companies. A recent example, one that received international attention, was the blockade of CN rail to protest the Keystone XL...
With the recent passing of Jean Allard (December 5, 2020), our country has lost one of our boldest thinkers. Jean Allard was a descendent of Red River settlers and was deeply involved with Manitoba’s Métis community and the political development of Canada’s...
Angus Reid Institute (ARI), the national not-for-profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation just released part one of a two-part survey on Canadian’s perceptions of policing (Policing in Canada: Major study reveals four mindsets driving current opinions...
"In today’s media, on our college campuses, and on the streets of our great cities, no cry is more pervasive than the demand for “social justice” for America’s minorities. While much attention is given to athletes, academic pundits, political activists, and media...
COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political and social responses that have been tributary to the medical responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. What is a moral panic? The term was introduced by Stanley Cohen in his 1972 book, Folk Devils...