I encounter everyday people who are apologists for former or existing legislators. They don’t understand like you. They were not at the conferences leading up to the Charter and Rights and Freedoms. Balderdash! I wasn’t at the 1867 BNA Act talks either!! Nor was...
Language is considered to be a cornerstone of culture. If one wants to understand a culture, it is important to know the language. Many people enjoy learning a new language, partly because it opens them to new cultures. There is an explosion of people learning new...
Education has never been more important for Canadian students, parents and our nation and yet it has never been more looked at with more skepticism that it is not serving anyone well. In a competitive world where critical thinking, skills and shared civic values are...
The National Post’s recent profile of Canada Pension Plan’s investment philosophy notes that CPP Investment Board managers have bought into Environmental, Social and Governance, ‘ESG’, scoring in its asset allocation. Having permeated Canada’s institutional investment...
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
In this book, philosophy professor Mark Mercer articulates a conception of the academic mission of universities as dispassionate inquiry.
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released the 2022 edition of Demographia Housing Affordability in Canada. This article includes the Executive Summary, with a link to the entire report. The report is authored by Wendell Cox, a senior fellow with the Frontier...
Speech by the Honourable A. Brian Peckford on the Occasion Of The George Jonas Award Being Presented To Tamara Lich By The Justice Centre For Constitutional Freedoms, Burnaby, BC — July 13, 2022. Background It is a real honour to be asked to speak to you on this very...
Too much could be read into the recent sagging value of the Euro, British pound, Japan’s yen and Canada’s loonie against America’s dollar. Relative interest rates, trade deficits, and government deficits and trends have major influences. In the longer term, all...
Instead of making students memorize a bunch of useless facts, we need to help them think like scientists and historians. Does this make sense to you? It probably does if you’re a curriculum consultant or an education professor. After all, that’s what’s being pushed in...
https://rumble.com/embed/v1m5s33/?pub=1u06to Constitutional Lawyer Leighton Grey and Frontier Senior Fellow and The Honorable Preston Manning have a conversation about the history of politics in Canada, the reason behind his writing of the COVID...
The 1982 Saskatchewan general election proved to be a fundamental turning point in the province’s history.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland thinks her government is too humble. At least that’s what she said when a reporter asked her why travellers are still forced to fill out the ArriveCan app before entering Canada. After extolling the virtues of national humility,...
There is only one taxpayer pool. Whether we are taxed by the provincial or federal governments, it all comes from one increasingly small pocket. The federal government has constitutional health care sovereignty over: Quarantine; The military; Indigenous people;...