One clear takeaway from the convoy protest is the realization that pandemic restrictions and mandates are not affecting everyone equally. Liberal MP Joel Lightbound’s clever retort of, “Not everyone can still earn a living using their MacBook while at the cottage”...
Commentary
Increasing Cold Extremes Worldwide: Is Global Cooling on the way?
In an earlier commentary, Madhav Khandekar pointed out that the year 2018 was one of the coldest and snowiest winters in Canada, especially in western Canada. For example, Calgary witnessed one of the largest snowfalls in recorded history, and Edmonton witnessed 127...
Patient Focused Healthcare Requires New Funding Model
Over the last 25 years, I have been involved in Manitoba’s healthcare delivery. I have served as Chair of the University of Manitoba’s Board of Governors, thus observing the roles of its medical school, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Manitoba...
Note to Americans: Education is Not Genocide
Things have taken a strange turn in Canada on the genocide front. Genocide? Canada? Those are words that you would not normally see together. Words like “polite” or “peaceful” might come to mind. But “genocide”, not so much. In fact, the picture of placid Canadians as...
Featured News
Why are we Ignoring Left-Wing Extremism in the COVID Economy?
COVID lockdown measures are opening the door to extremists, not just because people are spending more time on the internet at home, but because of the huge impact lockdown had on the economy and employment. The effect has been seen globally, with low-wage workers...
Continually Bleeding Cash: A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
WINNIPEG, MB, December - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Continually Bleeding Cash: A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre. This...
Mikisew First Nation vs. Canada – Duty to Consult
The Supreme Court of Canada’s Mikisew decision, delivered on October 11, 2018, marks what could be a very significant development in Canadian law -possibly ushering in a more reasonable era, where courts intervene less in matters that properly belong to the people’s...
What Next for U.S. Climate and Energy Policies?
The “Blue Wave” never really reached shore, the U.S. Senate is still in Republican hands, the House of Representatives flipped to Democratic control, Trump era deregulation and fossil fuel production efforts continue, several governorships and state houses went from...
CRTC Wants to Tax Internet Users to Subsidize Content Creators
Sometime in the not too distant future, everyone who subscribes to the Internet should have to pay more to ensure more secure jobs and incomes for Canadian content creators whose lives have been disrupted by the Internet. That’s the pitch being made by Canada’s...
Fighting Poverty With Innovation and Capitalism
Yale University economist William Nordhaus was one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in economics this year for his work on analyzing the long-term economic impacts of climate change and climate policies. Quite appropriately, most media headlines focussed on...
Keep Carbon Taxes in the Ground
The House of Representatives recently passed a sense of Congress resolution that a carbon tax would kill jobs, damage the revitalized U.S. economy, and disproportionately impact poor, minority and working class families. The vote also reflects the fact that America is...
The Notwithstanding Clause
Section 33 of The Charter of Rights and Freedoms allows Parliament and provincial legislatures to override certain Charter rights. Despite criticism from some politicians, academics and the media, the clause is constitutionally-sound and useful. Section 33 has a...
Lessons From ‘The War to End All Wars’, Lest We Forget
As we commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the armistice that ended the ‘Great War’, the ‘War to End All Wars’, later, sadly renamed World War I, it is not only just and right that we honour and remember those who lost their lives, or were otherwise casualties of...
Sympathizing with Minorities
When one of my friends and colleagues accused me of being unsympathetic to minorities, I was indignant. How dare he? After all, I am myself a member of a much maligned and prejudicially treated minority ethnic group, with which I identify strongly. Not only that, both...
Crowdfunding Democratizes Finance, and That’s Okay
When fundraising garnered leftover crumbs, the gatekeepers of finance barely cared to notice. Now digitized, it is garnering a growing portion of the financial pie and running into regulatory barriers and legal limbo in Canada. The critics of crowdfunding,...