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Crime
Inner City Shoplifting and Wab Kinew
Winnipeg, Manitoba is being hit with an epidemic of shoplifting that appears to be out of control. Thieves openly steal expensive items, such as frozen meat, from inner city food stores. Shelves are stripped bare in what are more accurately described as robberies than...
Political Assassinations: Behind the Killing of British PM Spencer Perceval
One of the greatest difficulties in maintaining a stable democracy is keeping one’s political leaders from being murdered. In the more excitable Latin American and Caribbean nations, presidents and would-be reformers are killed with depressing regularity, the most...
What Government Reaction to Church Fires?
Brian Giesbrecht, retired judge and Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy discusses the 90 church arson fires (over the last thirty months) across Canada and the Canadian Government lacklustre response to these deliberate acts with SAUGA960...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Fighting Crime With Socialist Utopianism
In a recent op-ed in the Winnipeg Free Press, associate professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, Kelly Gorkof, an associate professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, argued that the traditional idea of fighting crime is...