Listen to Senior Fellow William Brooks speak about nation-hood and a post national state with Richard Syrett on SAUGA 960 in Toronto from April 26, 2024. (20 minutes)
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William Brooks: From Western Traditions to Political Indoctrination: A Cultural History of Education Part 1
Part 1 of 6 : The Role of a ‘Christian Paideia’ in Western Education
Welcome William Brooks, latest Frontier Senior Fellow
The fellows and Board of Directors at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy are pleased to welcome William Brooks as a Senior Fellow. Bill will be joining a group of other fellows who are writing and speaking about innovative policies for improving the functioning of...
William Brooks: To Defend Academic Freedom, a Canadian Professor Calls for ‘Dangerous Universities’
Mark Mercer is a professor of philosophy at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, who has served as president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship since 2015. SAFS is a Canadian organization whose members are devoted to “academic rigour, scholarly...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Talk Truth – Francine Champagne
In this episode of Talk Truth, Allen and Corri Hunsperger sit down with Francine Champagne, a former Manitoba school trustee whose steadfast principles led her through intense political and social adversity. Francine discusses her motivations for running for school...
Plenty Wrong With UManitoba’s Purge Of Colonialist Art
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past,” George Orwell wrote in 1984. A powerful example of that is happening right now as Cultural Marxists are decolonializing the art collection at the University of Manitoba. Karen...
Evil Prevails When Good People Do Nothing: Why a Pro-Life Group Is Petitioning for Representative Democracy
Earlier this year a Canadian pro-life organization launched an online petition calling for the resignation of eight school trustees in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Campaign Life Coalition contends that trustees of the Louis Riel School Division (LRSD) “undid the results of a...
Woke Ideologues Loathe the Legacy of English-Speaking Peoples
While assessing the merits of historical developments that occurred during the second millennium, the India-born economist and author Deepak Lal asserted that “the ascent of the English-speaking peoples to prominence in the world surely ranked highest. The...
Canadian Author T.K. Kanwar Defends the Virtues of American Liberty
Books matter! Literature can influence the course of a nation’s history. The world will long remember Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for exposing the tyranny of 20th century Bolshevism. In novels like “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” “Cancer Ward,” and “In the First...
The Post-National Cult of Diversity Promotes Authoritarian Intolerance
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. ... Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state.” — Justin Trudeau, 2015. Throughout history, populations with sufficient historical, geographic, linguistic, economic, religious, and cultural...
The Dark Sequel to a History of Indoctrination
Last year, I wrote a feature titled “From Western Traditions to Political Indoctrination: A Cultural History of Education.” The six-part series covered developments in North American education from faith-based 17th-century schoolhouses to the woke indoctrination mills...
From a US President to a Local School Trustee: No One is Safe in an Era of Kafkaesque Absurdity
A hundred years after Kafka’s “The Trial” was first published, the West has descended into an era in which absurd allegations are the new normal.
A Cultural History of Education Part 6
Part 6 of 6 : Something Needs to be Done