A class-action lawsuit against the federal government is underway for Indigenous students who attended day schools. It seeks damages for every Indigenous student who attended, an estimated 100,000 such people are alive. The lawsuit could result in a payout of at least...
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The Corporate Welfare Rip Off
What do the federal government, responsibility, and transparency have in common? When it comes to handing money to corporations, not much. Working class Canadians watch helplessly as their hard-earned money is taxed away to be put into the laps of large businesses-...
The Death of Forgiveness
In 1961 John Profumo, Minister of War in the British government and a married man, conducted a brief, tawdry affair with teenage party girl Christine Keeler. Among Miss Keeler’s other lovers was Yevgeni Ivanov, a Soviet military attaché and intelligence agent. When...
Economics in One Lesson VI: “Credit Diverts Production”
This short video covers the key points of Chapter Six "Credit Diverts Production" from Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson." The video follows Hazlitt's argument that when governments give loans or subsidies to businesses, they merely take funds away from other...
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To Infinity and Beyond
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
Global Minimum Tax Is Cartel Scam with Loopholes
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
Ontario’s Billion Dollar Plan to Reduce Plant Food
In the March 19th Speech from the Throne, the Ontario government tells us that “you cannot be serious about lowering emissions and fighting climate change without a price on carbon pollution.” Nowhere in the speech is it specified what this supposed pollution actually...
Graham Lane, retired Chair of the Manitoba Public Utilities Board and expert advisory panel member of the Frontier Centre discusses the mass resignation of the Board of Directors of Manitoba Hydro. He is the author of the 2013 Frontier Centre paper Dam Nation –...
Going ‘Old School’ Switching to Manual Override and Human Control
Technology in cars has been steadily taking over more and more control from the driver. 100 years ago we started cars with a hand crank. 50 years ago we manually shifted the gears. 30 years ago we learned about threshold braking and how to pump our breaks to prevent...
The Arkhipov Calm
Where would we be without Vasili Arkhipov? In fact, would we be here at all? Who is Vasili Arkhipov you may ask? Before I get to that, let me talk for a minute about the nuclear world we now live in. There are currently so many nuclear weapons on our small planet that...
Profile Series: Reginald Bellerose
To Chief Reginald Bellerose, 49, of Muskowekwan First Nation in southern Saskatchewan , the wave of the future belongs to Indigenous entrepreneurship. “Our entrepreneurial spirit has been dormant. We must re-ignite that spirit,” said Bellerose, the 13-year chief of...
It used to be that one of the most important hallmarks of a strong democracy was its protection of free speech. Unfortunately, Canada seems to be following the lead of those who would rather silence opinion that’s not considered sufficiently “progressive”.
Official Racism in Our Universities
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King, Jr.[1] History is replete with people being treated according to their...
Security Cannot Trump Freedom
John Diefenbaker once said, “We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage.”. “We cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.” Experts and...
The Environment: A True Story Part 11 – The 97 Per Cent Non Solution
Part 11 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.