Frontier senior fellows Brian Giesbrecht and David Redman discuss the continuing Covid policy fiasco, including lockdowns and vaccine mandates with Glorious and Free, a public discussion group with membership mostly in Ontario and Quebec. November 22, 2021. (3 hours)....
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We are Finding the 2800 Missing Children
The “secret graves” and “missing children” narrative had our national flag flying at half-mast for over five months after an obscure indigenous politician made the startling claim that she “knew” that 215 indigenous children had been secretly buried in the “apple...
Could Omicron Break the Pandemic Mindset?
The wind is in from Africa. Last night I couldn’t sleep. Because a new coronavirus has arrived. It has been named Omicron. The arrival of a new mutation of the novel coronavirus should not come as a surprise to anyone who has at least a sixth grade understanding of...
The United States and Provinces of Red North America
(Editor's note - The federal government committing to net zero policies at the November 2021 UN Climate Change summit in Scotland, effectively requires the eventual phase out of western Canada's hydrocarbon producing sector. This essay, though from a year ago,...
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
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...
Whiteout
Irving Berlin’s Christmas song “White Christmas” is a classic - Bing Crosby’s version remains the best-selling single of all time. And yet, if the logic of a special interest group in Winnipeg is to prevail, the name of the song would have to be changed to something...
Could Alberta Turn into ‘Montana North’
The Wall Street Journal has weighed into the growing impasse between Alberta and Canada’s federal government over the hostility of the federal government towards Alberta’s vital oil and gas industry. In a recent column by Holman W. Jenkins Jr., the potential prospect...
The Mayor’s New Name Game
Winnipeg is a great city. Brutal winters and buggy humid summers don’t dampen the enthusiasm Winnipeggers feel for the city and its vibrancy of a unique culture. Nonetheless, a long list of civic problems requires the mayor and councillors to concentrate on bread and...
The Social Justice Bus
It was December 1, 1955. A tired seamstress was making her way back home on a bus after a long day in Montgomery, Alabama. The bus driver angrily informed the woman that the law required her to sit in the back of the bus. The woman was not just tired from work, she...
The Home Children
Every September 28th Canada celebrates British Home Child Day. Between one and two hundred thousand children were sent to Canada from England between 1869 and 1948 to be used as free farm and domestic labour. Some making the lonely voyage were orphans, but most were...
The Progressive Agenda Stormtroopers
The Law Society of Ontario is determined to compel all lawyers who wish to practise in that province to sign on to the Society’s version of a progressive agenda. The Society is also considering making it mandatory that lawyers attend sessions on such subjects as...
Overly Simplistic Report on Thunder Bay Police Treatment of Indigenous People
A damning report alleges Thunder Bay Police treat Indigenous people in a “systemically racist” way. With the police and city politicians blamed, there has been a flood of announcements promising change. No doubt there will be cultural sensitivity courses and other...
The Victim Industry
The Globe and Mail reported on August 17, 2018 that different factions of lawyers involved in what is termed the “60s Scoop” class action suit are squabbling over $75,000,000 in fees that are up for grabs for the work they claim to have done to date. Recall that...