In this episode Constitutional Lawyer and Frontier Senior Fellow Leighton Grey is joined by two Alberta lawyers who signed a petition against the latest attempt to compel Alberta members of the bar to take Indigenous history and anti-racism training known as "The...
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Grey Matter: Think Tanks Influencing Policy – Peter Holle
In this episode Constitutional Lawyer Leighton Grey and Peter Holle have a conversation about how he came to organize a powerful "Think Tank", some of the work he has been doing to help evolve the system of Government, and why it's so important to challenge the status...
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)....
Frontier senior fellow Leighton Grey is a lawyer who is working with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) on court challenges to lockdowns and vaccine mandates, as well as other related cases. In this recent JCCF podcast he updates us on these...
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Timeless Wisdom – The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...
Canada’s National Hysteria in the 21st Century
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In...
"Canada should keep first past the post voting system" This is a Frontier Centre for Public Policy recording, all Frontier Centre for Public Policy recordings are in the public domain. For more information visit www.fcpp.org. "Canada should keep first past the post...
Senior Fellow Michael Zwaagstra is interviewed by Danielle Smith about the recent controversial motion made by newly elected trustee Lisa Davis seeking to create "third-party math monitoring" to ensure students achieve the learning improvements they deserve in math...
Content Knowledge is the Key to Learning
Today the Frontier Centre for Public Policy released a new report by Michael Zwaagstra, a well-known teacher, author, and Frontier Centre Senior Fellow. Content Knowledge is the Key to Learning critiques the fad of 21st Century Learning and makes the case for...
Content Knowledge: The Key to 21st Century Learning
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/314979585" params="color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true" width="100%" height="20" iframe="true" /] Content Knowledge: The Key to 21st Century Learning Presenter: Michael Zwaagstra, BEd,...
Be a Sage on the Stage – How Traditional Instruction can Improve Student Learning
Michael Zwaagstra, Research Fellow, FCPP Research strongly supports the use of traditional methods including structured classrooms, direct instructions, guided practice and even rote memorization.
What is traditional instruction?
Education researcher Michael Zwaagstra is in Saskatchewan this week speaking on why what he calls “traditional” instruction of students is a good way to improve learning. What is traditional instruction? Michael Zwaagstra, public high school teacher, education...
What Is Traditional Instruction? (John Gormley Live)
Education researcher Michael Zwaagstra is in Saskatchewan this week speaking on why what he calls “traditional” instruction of students is a good way to improve learning. What is traditional instruction? Michael Zwaagstra, public high school teacher, education...
The Battle Against Bad Teaching
Nothing is more important than giving our children a good education, but getting rid of bad teachers can be very difficult. A recent court case in California may change that in the United States. A judge in Los Angeles has declared as unconstitutional, the sections of...
Emission Targets Are Unrealistic
Political leaders around the world have now spent more than two decades setting targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide that no one has any realistic hope of achieving. In the United Kingdom, emissions are being reduced at a rate of 1 percent per year. To...