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...
Year: 2020
Upward Mobility Index 2020
"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...
New Book Release: COVID-19: The Moral Panic of Pandemics
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...
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The Man who Saved the Plains Indians
At the time of Confederation, Canada’s Plains Indians were in a desperate situation. The same European-introduced guns and horses that resulted in a briefly glorious golden age for them had also resulted in constant inter-tribal warfare and the rapid disappearance of...
Renewed Talk of Abolishing the Indian Act
Political attacks on the Indian Act are back in the news, and that is a good thing. However, Canadian politicians, including First Nation politicians, need a credible plan about what to do before we pull out the champagne. Attacking the Indian Act is not a big deal...
An Act to Modernize Historic Treaty Annuities
The federal government can make a policy change to reflect treaty annuities modernization but it will not likely do this on its own. It would fall on an opposition party to introduce a private member’s public bill, such as this one, to reflect a policy change from...
Support for a Non-confidence Vote?
For the past 90 years, Canadian politics has been influenced by the presence of a genuinely left-wing political party. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) emerged in 1933 demanding nationalization of essential industries, universal public pensions, health...
New Book: Extremist Opportunism in the COVID Economy
WINNIPEG, MB, October 27, 2020 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just published and released a new short-book: Extremist Opportunism in the COVID Economy by Jack Buckby; a research associate with the Frontier Centre, and a British author of several books on...
The Smiley Face Terrorism of Extinction Rebellion
By now it should have become abundantly clear that violent extremism is not just a trait of Islamists or the far right. Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots have resulted in dozens of deaths this year, multiple police officers wounded and blinded, and entire districts...
BC Workers Compensation Needs an Overhaul
The Fair Practices Office for Worksafe BC receives 2,000 complaints each year. Retired labour lawyer Janet Patterson has shown the crown corporation how to lower that number significantly. After extensive consultations, she submitted her report in October 2019 with...
How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19 Shutdowns: Female-Dominated Occupations are Easier Targets
Women across the world know a silent truth: they are bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s economic fallout. These hectic months have placed an extra burden on their shoulders, and persistent lockdowns threaten to erase decades of gender equality earned in the labour...
Don’t let the COVID Crisis Affect Alberta’s Trade with the EU
The COVID crisis has led to a massive disruption of the economy, which continues nowadays. Movements of people and goods are significantly reduced by the restrictions taken by governments around the world. At the same time, the lockdowns slowed the economy both in...
‘Climate Arson’ and Other Wildfire Nonsense
In what has become an annual summer tragedy, wildfires are again destroying western US forests. Millions of acres and millions of animals have been incinerated, hundreds of homes reduced to ash and rubble, dozens of parents and children killed, and many more people...
Honouring Treaty Promises and Empowering Individuals: A Framework for Modernizing Treaty Annuities
The government just introduced another speech from the throne, outlining new spending and its legislative priorities for the coming session. When it comes to Indigenous policy, the speech included the usual increased funding for specific programs and services, often...