Back in 2017 CBC ran a story about a teacher who was so passionate about climate change that he attended an intensive training session lead by former US vice president Al Gore, after being designated a climate reality leader at this session, the teacher had his grade...
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The Death of Merit and the Race to Mediocrity in Our Increasingly Marxist Universities
The television series “The Enemy Within” begins by informing the viewer that there are 100,000 foreign spies in the United States working to undermine and destabilize America. China has sent hundreds of thousands of students to America to gain maximum access to the...
Educating Kids to Debate Alarming Climate Claims
Important new project provides videos and short non-technical issue briefs for students It is time to challenge the steady diet of bias, false information and alarmism on climate change that students are fed both in and outside of their classrooms. An important new...
Weaponizing Political Censure to Silence Dissent
In a democracy, decisions are based on how the majority of people vote on a given issue. However, having a majority of people vote in a certain way does not equate with a correct decision being made, especially if the decision is made with little to no discussion....
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Sustaining a Pariah State: Pakistan’s Ignominious Alliance in Afghanistan
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Endemic Path is the Way Out
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
Can't Pick And Choose Free Speech. The barometer on campus free of expression has found one Manitoba University wanting, but it is not one of the worst. the 2012 Campus Freedom Index measures the state of free speech at campuses of Canadian Universities and is...
The Real Reasons for the Gender Pay Gap
For decades, politicians, pundits, and activists have clamoured about a “gender pay gap” and have cited statistics purporting to show that the economy is unfair to women, who get paid only around 70 to 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. And for just as long,...
Funding the Climate-Industrial Complex
Supposedly “green” or “renewable” energy has become a trillion-dollar-plus annual industry that has spawned tens of thousands of new businesses worldwide. The total Climate-Industrial Complex is a $2-trillion-per-year business. Major fossil fuel companies like Shell...
Why Do Children of Some Minorities Have Weak Academic Performance?
Today the official governmental and university definition of “justice” is representation in government, industry, and education of members of all racial, gender, sexual, and ethnic categories according to their percentage of the population. In this “social justice”...
Why Canadians Are Suffering a Bankruptcy Spike
What can't happen won't happen. If incomes are stagnant while taxes, prices, and interest rates rise, people will fail to pay their debts—as is the case for 120,000 Canadians every year. The long-term build up of urban house prices had already made people financially...
New Technology Will Make Carbon Dioxide Tax Obsolete Anyway
Canadian politics have been riven and even toxified by the debate over Ottawa’s plans to impose a ‘carbon tax’ on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) on all provinces lacking such a levy. The ostensible goal is to induce the use of less fossil fuels, and thus emit less...
What Happened to Our Universities?
As extensively documented, our universities have been swept up into a new cultural movement, the so-called “social justice” movement. “Social justice” ideology is based on the Marxist vision that the world is divided into oppressor classes and oppressed classes....
Population Growth Leads to Challenges
For the first time in decades, Manitoba’s unemployment rate has risen above the national average. With the provincial economy growing (briskly for Manitoba) around 2% a year, we might have expected ‘some’ declining unemployment rates and labour shortages. But, it’s...
Frontier Senior Fellow Wendell Cox discusses the 15th Demographia International Housing Affordability Index with Geoff Currier on CJOB Winnipeg. Exploring why houses are more or less expensive in different Canadian markets. (14 minutes)