Part 3 of a 6-part series examining the impact the construction of two heavy oil upgraders during Saskatchewan’s Grant Devine Government. The discussion hails from the recently published Frontier Centre book “So Much More We Can Be: Saskatchewan’s Paradigm Shift and...
Year: 2022
Independent Thought, Courage, and Commitment
Independent thinkers believe what they do on the basis of evidence and argument and not as a result of psychological or social pressure. One way in which Critical Thinking courses help students to become independent thinkers is by making the analysis and evaluation of...
Peckford: Liberty is Not a Commodity – It’s a Value
As I tried to sleep last night, the words of the lawyers and The Judge in my lawsuit kept swirling around in my mind. The Judge’s attitude seemed almost like they were debating the validity of a dog license! And recalling the words of my lawyer’s interviews some hours...
Pushing Woke Ideology in Schools
If you’ve been around for a while, you probably remember the phrase “politically correct.” Being called politically correct was not a compliment. Rather, it meant that you had an unhealthy obsession with not offending anyone, even if you had to say some rather silly...
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What Must Be Done to Curb Canada’s Household Debt
Canada is struggling economically. From inflation and deficits to investment and employment, everything that should be up is down, and everything that should be down is up. One striking symptom of economic rot is household debt, which is rising faster than incomes....
Crown Utilities’ Unfair Advantages Reduce Competition, Innovation
Largely unique among state-owned enterprises, ‘SEOs’, worldwide, Canadian Crown corporations have two key advantages over current and future private sector competitors: non-taxable status and access to low-cost public sector borrowing rates. Other implicit edges...
Canadian Healthcare Desperately Needs Doctors
The coronavirus pandemic has accomplished what a multitude of government reports could not – that is, to draw Canadians’ attention to a faltering health-care system characterized by a chronic shortage of beds, overflowing emergency departments, and limited numbers of...
Ditching Pesticide Ban Good for Environment
Manitoba needs to follow good science and not give into ideological environmentalists who value kneejerk emotionalism over positive outcomes. Case in point is the province’s sensible decision to lift a ban at least partially on cosmetic pesticides passed by the...
Grey Matter Podcast – How The Justice Centre is working to inspire change – with John Carpay
https://rumble.com/v1o164s-how-the-justice-center-for-constitutional-freedoms-is-working-to-inspire-ch.html In this episode Constitutional Lawyer and Frontier Senior Fellow Leighton Grey has a conversation with John Carpay, the founder of The Justice Centre for...
A Stake Through the Heartland
Inflation and supply chain issues are greatly stressing the country’s producing class The other week, I visited my mom in Saskatchewan, in a little town up in what is called the province’s northeast but really isn’t. It is the parkland border between farms and...
Peckford: We Need an Independent NATIONAL INQUIRY IN CANADA
Not an Obligatory Federal Government Appointed Inquiry of the Emergency Act Under the Emergencies Act the federal government was forced to appoint an inquiry to review the implementation/use of the Act. The problem is Government invoked the Act and they get to...
Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
Cheap Coal Could Pay for Greenhouse Gas Remediation
Lately, the Climate Change Apocalypse lobby has gone into overdrive in their efforts to browbeat reluctant consumers, businesses and governments to wholly eliminate fossil fuels and commit to putting all future energy investment into renewable energy. That did not...
Big Tech, Big Government, the Internet and You
Who should police the Internet? The Big Tech platforms, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc.? Is this a role for government? Our right to free expression on the internet has been challenged by both the tech platforms themselves and by governments that want to...
Policy on the Frontier – The State of Canadian Journalism in 2022
The media plays a vital role in the health and well-being of our democracy. And yet, the trust and confidence in legacy media has never been lower. At the same time, so called independent and smaller media outlets are on the rise. What is the role of the fourth...