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 Canadas indigenous history, how the truth and reconciliation commission has dramatically altered data, the role …
Do Universities Exploit Undergraduates? (Clifton)
PowerPoint slides which accompanied Rodney Clifton’s speech Do Universities Exploit Undergraduates? that he gave in Winnipeg on February 7, 2013.
Sinclair is Wrong — It Wasn’t Genocide
Rodney Clifton responds to an article in the Winnipeg Free Press.
Standardized testing fails to make the grade
In related news, the Frontier Centre For Public Policy released a report by Rodney Clifton, professor of Sociology of Education with the University of Manitoba, which states that teachers’ unions are first and foremost acting in the interest of their members, and not students.
Cracking Egg-Heads at the U of M – PowerPoint
PowerPoint from Breakfast on the Frontier with University of Manitoba Professor Rodney Clifton, September 12, 2007.
Bill 64 is Dead, but Reform still Required
BILL 64 is dead. There is little doubt that many Manitobans were delighted when interim Premier Kelvin Goertzen tolled its death knell. Instead of dancing around the bill’s funeral pyre, government members need to seriously review the Manness/MacKinnon commission report, …
Was There a Cultural Genocide in Canada?
Was there a cultural genocide in Canada as claimed in the Truth and Reconciliation Report? Mass graves at residential schools? An interview with Professor Rodney Clifton, co-editor of “From Truth Comes Reconciliation: Assessing the Truth and Reconciliation Report” Interviewed by …
Don’t Slam the Door on Bill 64
Country singer Kenny Chesney’s lyric “Everybody want to go heaven, but nobody want to go now” is perhaps an apt metaphor for the current debate over Bill 64, the Education Modernization Act. Everybody knows that Manitoba students underperform academically, but …
Residential Schools and Unmarked Graves: Is open inquiry possible?
Rodney Clifton, Brian Giesbrecht and Frances Widdowson discuss the Kamloops Cemetery controversy. Moderated by Paul Viminitz. Saturday, July 10, 2021 Over the last few months, hundreds of unmarked graves of people connected to residential schools have been identified. It …