Chipper, patient, and courteous, Canada has pursued an improbable destiny as a splendid nation of relatively good and ably self-governing people, but most would agree we have not realized our true potential. Canada's main chance, according to our guest, is now before...
Join us on July 29, 2021 For a discussion with David Redman on his latest research paper: CANADA’S DEADLY RESPONSE TO COVID-19 Register in advance for this webinar by clicking the button below. REGISTER NOW → In March 2020 most of the world’s countries, for the first...
With the recent passing of Jean Allard (December 5, 2020), our country has lost one of our boldest thinkers. Jean Allard was a descendent of Red River settlers and was deeply involved with Manitoba’s Métis community and the political development of Canada’s...
COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political and social responses that have been tributary to the medical responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. What is a moral panic? The term was introduced by Stanley Cohen in his 1972 book, Folk Devils...
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Thursday September 19, 2019 at 7:00pm McNally Robinson Bookstore Grant Park Mall, Winnipeg, MB
- 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...
Sheilla Jones is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, leading the Treaty Annuity/Individual Empowerment Initiative. She is an award-winning Canadian journalist, former CBC news editor, and author of several books on cosmology and quantum...
Together with 35 other students from across Canada, predominantly doctoral and post-doctoral students, Masha Krylova, a M.A. student from the University of Manitoba, has been selected to take part in the innovative training program, the Summer Program in Aging (SPA)....
Today’s tragedy in Connecticut was horrific. But let’s take a moment to reflect. Peaceful human civilization is improbable, miraculous, and wonderful. The fact that a society has emerged in which most people can safely walk down the streets is utterly astonishing.
Based on a structural and historical analysis of Canada’s welfare system, this policy paper argues that welfare has helped create and maintain a chronically workless underclass that persists regardless of economic or labour market conditions instead of helping welfare recipients.
One of the most brilliant minds on urban land use planning policy, Owen McShane, has passed away. The Frontier Centre was fortunate to have him on its Expert Advisory Panel since its start in the late 1990s. Owen was a skeptic of grand government planning schemes and...
NBR Straight Thinking columnist, venture capitalist and planning consultant Owen McShane has died, aged 70. Owen had been on the Frontier Centre’s Expert Advisory Panel since 1999.