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Frontier Live on X – Hopes and Fears in 2024 – with Leighton Grey and Peter Holle
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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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Canadians on the Move, to Smaller Communities
The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
Leadership Needed in Canadian Healthcare; Apply Within
When the Premiers were first called to a sit-down lunch to talk about healthcare with Prime Minister Trudeau, there was plenty of talk about the potential for systemic change, innovation and accountability. It seemed that Canadians and their leaders were finally on...
The federal government has decided to throw $950 million dollars into “strengthening Canada’s most promising clusters and accelerating economic growth in highly innovative industries…while positioning Canadian firms for global leadership.” What this means is that the...
The House of Commons bans certain terms as “unparliamentary speech”. It’s time we all stopped using certain phrases in our own debates. The current Minister of the Environment has referred to some of her opponents as “climate change deniers”, a nasty and dishonest...
“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.) That white, female teachers make up the bulk of the K-12 teaching...
Airbnb is one of our era’s most popular and successful services, providing travellers cheap short-term accommodation in unused suites and rooms, primarily in private homes. It serves millions of customers every day in 191 countries but it has recently faced opposition...
The recent controversies over tearing down the statues of Canadian heroes because some of their actions have offended our modern sensibilities needs some historical context. No one, no matter how revered, ever lived without flaws. Louis Riel, lauded for the founding...
Politicians almost universally believe that timely, appropriate and voluntary action to remedy structural economic imbalance should be avoided at all costs because it amounts to political suicide. Consequently, as studies by the Organization for Economic Cooperation...
The Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Pacific Northwest LNG Pipeline proposals have been scrapped. Scotiabank estimates that the Canadian economy forfeits $15.6 billion per year as other pipeline proposals await approval. Has this happened because Canadians...
Red tape and paper-shuffling clog the arteries of departmentville. Most debilitating is the process-bound micro-management of all personnel and financial decisions by large central agencies. While well intended, their rules and controls cost hundreds of millions,...
Michael Zwaagstra's presentation on the importance of "Content Knowledge" at ResearchED which is an international grass-roots, teacher-led project that aims to make teachers research-literate and pseudo-science proof. Since 2013 ResearchED has grown from a tweet to an...