Senator Lynn Beyak is back in the news - the Senate ethics committee is recommending the Senator be suspended without pay for the duration of the current Parliament. Why? A few letters she posted to her website. The senator has become a symbol of intolerance and...
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Is it Okay to be White?
Last Hallowe’en night a costumed person was seen tacking up posters at the University of Manitoba. The posters said “It’s Okay To Be White”. This strange occurrence was uniformly denounced by the university administration and various student associations who claimed...
Vaccine Consensus vs Hesitancy
Eradicating vaccine hesitancy has never been a bigger priority for the medical and media establishment. The World Health Organization has listed the phenomenon among the top ten threats to global health. Unfavorable media coverage forced Vaxxed filmmaker Del Bigtree...
No, the College Free-Speech Crisis Is Not a Right-Wing Conspiracy
Do not be surprised when college presidents say, "I oppose free speech on college campuses," or law deans say that President Trump’s executive order to require free speech on campuses is "unconstitutional." The reason is simple: college and university administrators...
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COVID Crisis Management: Which Lessons?
The pandemic has taken the countries, the governments and the people by surprise. Most of them were not prepared to face this crisis. After all, initially, most Western countries refused to panic and wanted to manage the situation like other illnesses like the flu....
Throwing Good Money After Bad?
One of the eternal questions of public policy is: should governments get into bed with private businesses? Whether it is called a Public-Private Partnership, buying a controlling interest for taxpayers, investing in the technologies of tomorrow or just, avoiding a...
Finally, Some Commonsense Western Fire Policies
President Trump promised to bring fresh ideas and policies to Washington. Now Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue are doing exactly that in a critically important area: forest management and conflagration prevention. Their actions are...
Ignorance or Wisdom?
Senator Lynn Beyak says in a letter that status Indians should give up their status cards and become true Canadians. The reaction to the letter has been fast and furious. She has been denounced by a host of worthies. As I write this, I am listening to a CBC radio...
Two Wrongs don’t make a Right: How Not to Bring about Social Justice
The early Greek version of the Hippocratic Oath included the following commitment: “I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing.” A Latin version states, “I will utterly reject harm and...
Graham Lane, former Chair of PUB, Chair of Manitoba Forward and member of Frontier's Expert Advisory Panel, discusses the rate hikes facing Manitobans through Manitoba Hydro. Interviewed by Hal Anderson on 680 CJOB Winnipeg.
The Government Is the Limit, Not the Sky
If a tree falls in the forest, can a tree-hugger cheer? Yes, believe it or not. Felled trees can now replace concrete and steel in high-rise buildings, saving their weight in carbon dioxide emissions. Engineers and environmentalists are both rightfully excited by the...
Frontier In The Media – Good and bad news from Alberta: we can fix our broken governments
Originally appeared in the National Post. If you’re really worried about the performance of governments across Canada, and beyond, I have some good news and some bad news. We know what we have to do to fix it. I’ve just attended a “Restoring the Alberta Advantage”...
Why Young Canadians Can’t Afford To Buy a Home
Canada’s middle-income housing affordability crisis (unaffordable homes) is drawing considerable attention, with good reason. Families are being squeezed out of the market and the situation is only going to worsen. Frontier Centre publications, such as the Demographia...
Departmental Change at INAC
Recent changes at Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) are causing consternation across Indigenous communities, as well as with other Canadians. The decision to split the department into two parts, one overseeing Crown-Indigenous relations and the other...
Revisiting Wind Turbine Impacts
It’s amazing, though hardly surprising, how quickly some used Hurricane Harvey’s devastation to claim that fossil fuel emissions are driving catastrophic climate change and weather. Their proffered solution, of course, is to replace those fuels with “clean,...