The controversy concerning what is called “cultural appropriation” has taken a strange new twist. Although past complaints about this newly invented crime have typically involved Indigenous artists or writers complaining that a non-Indigenous person has appropriated...
- New Book Release July 2019 - Since Indigenous Affairs (IA) became a stand-alone Canadian government department in 1966, it has mushroomed into a federal department unlike any other. IA has jurisdictional reach over 90 percent of Canada’s land mass, authorities...
Canada Lands Corporation Limited, or CLCL, is the Crown corporation which sells surplus federal land and buildings and also develops various parcels across the country. Using an intrinsic value method, and discounting to the present CLCL’s projected future free cash...
The Liberal government of Canada has formulated a new program to which all universities are expected to commit. It is called “Dimensions: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” A “Charter” for “Dimensions” has been distributed to all university presidents, who are urged...
There are many natural and geo-political phenomena that will affect the next several decades; climate change, COVID-19 and its variants, social unrest, and rising tensions between China and the United States amongst them. As governments and societies learn to...
When I audited an economics class in the Rice University School of Business, the lecturer compared inflation to slow-growing cancer and deflation to a heart attack. The implication was that deflation, which is the declining prices, is fatal and worse than inflation....
WINNIPEG, MB, December 14, 2017 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new research paper Regulatory Institutionalism in Canada. This research paper is authored by Brogan Powlesland, a research associate with Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The...
Day 15 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 15 we wish that Alberta would deposit 30% of resource revenue into...
WINNIPEG, MB, December 13, 2017 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new research paper Procurement and Entrepreneurship. This research paper is authored by Joshua Morry, a research associate with Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The paper...
Day 14 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 14 we wish Ottawa and all provincial capitals would dramatically...
The introduction to John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
Day 13 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 13 we would like to see transformative, “out of the box” reform of...
Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Forced assimilation. Slavery. Racism. As much as mainstream history and traditional anthropology have shown these five phenomena to be near universal features of the human condition, they are mostly portrayed these days in the ivory tower,...
Day 12 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 12 we wish that Canadian government would bring in spending limit...
Senior Fellow Michael Zwaagstra is interviewed by Danielle Smith about the recent controversial motion made by newly elected trustee Lisa Davis seeking to create "third-party math monitoring" to ensure students achieve the learning improvements they deserve in math...