The Citizens’ Hearing took place from June 22nd to 24th, 2022 in Toronto, Canada, and marked the launch of an historic documentation of Canadians negatively impacted by government responses to COVID-19. Frontier is featuring extracts weekly. Leighton Grey is a...
Year: 2022
Leaders on the Frontier – Why Canadian Civil Society Matters More than Ever and Cannot be Taken for Granted
Our Topic: Culture matters. Indeed, it has been said that culture is upstream to policy. That is, our cultural context including civil society shapes what is possible in policy and that is why every Canadian needs to care deeply about it because it determines the...
Return to Reason Podcast – Sonya Anderson: Citizen’s Hearings on Covid Response
Sonya Anderson, one of the organizers of A Citizens' Hearing (Frontier Centre is one), highlights some of the the stories gathered during the three day event. Leon Fontaine deepens the conversation by discussing individual freedom and censorship. The business,...
The Disgrace of the Old Guard
The news was everywhere this morning: Liz Truss, foreign secretary, is the new British Prime Minister. As usual, one had to dig deeper than the mainstream media line to find out why she won over Rishi Sunak, former chancellor of the Exchequer. Sunak had belatedly said...
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Supply Chain Strains Could Cause Shortages and Hoarding
Supply chain problems, both international and domestic, could create shortages and hoarding, and make recent inflationary pressures even worse. Although problems with our ports and railways may beg policy solutions, the short-term response of everyday Canadians should...
New Book: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
CALGARY, AB, December 17, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis written by Susan Martinuk. Susan is an accomplished, nationally recognized researcher and writer who has...
Canada, U.S. Cities With Largest CBDs Lost Population
New population estimates by census authorities in Canada (Statistics Canada) and the United States (Bureau of the Census) show that cities (municipalities) with the largest central business districts lost residents in the year ended July 1, 2021. Currently data is...
The Never-Ending, Debilitating, Civic Childhood of Canada’s Aboriginal People
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. -Corinthians 1 It is the right of all capable, adult citizens of Canada to share the same civic rights and to shoulder the same...
Aboriginal Justice Inquiry – Reflections of a Former Justice Minister
The March 9, 1988 police shooting of J.J. Harper on the streets of Winnipeg and the much earlier murder of Helen Betty Osborne in The Pas in 1971 led Howard Pawley’s government to commission the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry (AJI) on April 13, 1988 in the middle of the...
Serfing the Future?
Land ownership has shaped civilizations from their beginnings, with a constant interplay between great powers—the aristocracy, the state, the Church, the emperor—and those below them. History has oscillated between periods of greater dispersion of ownership, and those...
Dr. Rodney Clifton shares his thoughts on Truth and Reconciliation – Grey Matter Podcast
https://rumble.com/embed/v1lezvc/?pub=1u06to In this episode Constitutional Lawyer Leighton Grey and Dr. Rodney Clifton, both Senior Fellows at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, have a conversation about Canada's indigenous history, how the truth...
We Should not Put too much Emphasis on Technology
Technology has had a huge impact on public education. Classrooms of today look quite different from those of a generation ago. It shows just how quickly technology changes and the extent to which it dominates our children’s lives. However, while it makes sense to...
Betting on WTI is a Short-term Strings Attached Solution
The Alberta government stopped collecting the fuel tax at the beginning of April in an effort to provide “real relief” to Albertans impacted by rising fuel and inflationary costs. The tax cut saves motorists up to $0.13/L on gasoline and diesel but reduces the...
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion may be causing more harm than good – Greymatter Podcast – Dr. Phillip Salzman
https://rumble.com/embed/v1lez9e/?pub=1u06to In this episode Constitutional Lawyer and Frontier Senior Fellow Leighton Grey and Dr. Phillip Salzman, also a Frontier Senior Fellow, have a conversation about the destruction caused by leftist "woke" culture, how...
Book Review – Book Delivers a Scathing Diagnosis of Canada’s Ailing Health System
BY TERRY O'NEILL A 2019 rally against private health care in London, Ont. B.C. writer Susan Martinuk’s new book on Canada’s public health-care crisis is timely given the medical system’s lurching response to the COVID-pandemic crisis. (Council of Canadians/Flickr)...