PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Lunch on the Frontier speech by Dr. Tim Ball in Winnipeg February 9, 2011.
Conversation
Calvin Helin, Author ‘The Economic Dependency Trap’
Calvin Helin worked his way up from an impoverished boyhood in a remote First Nations village in northern British Columbia to become a successful lawyer and international businessman. He has dedicated his life to helping others break the bonds of economic dependency and emerge with newfound confidence and self-worth.
Ezra Levant, lawyer, journalist, and political activist
Ezra Levant was interviewed after his Lunch on the Frontier speech in Winnipeg on December 2, 2010.
A Conversation with Danielle Smith, Leader, Wildrose Alliance Party
Danielle Smith was interviewed after her Lunch on the Frontier speech in Winnipeg on November 22, 2010.
Featured News
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Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
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Sheldon Schwartz Interview
Sheldon Schwartz worked for the Province of Saskatchewan during a career spanning 25 years, including as Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance, responsible for Saskatchewan’s treasury and debt management functions and as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance and Administration for Crown Investments Corporation, the Province’s holding company for its commercial Crown corporations.
Nigel Hannaford
On Human Rights Commissions and the need for drastic reforms.
Sidney Green
“I support the general law. Namely, that it is unlawful to bribe a politician otherwise I do not support laws with respect to financing because one, it is contrary to freedom of speech and secondly, because it is impossible to enforce them and it makes dishonest people out of honest people because they will find and seek out ways to get around stupid laws.”
Linda West
“The projections are that whatever the shortage is in your industry that they will double every 3 – 5 years for the next 15 years. We are literally today slowing down our economic growth because we don’t have workers.”
Bryan Schwartz
“If everyone is beholden to government, if you have a supplicant society, people are hesitant about engaging in free thinking and forthright criticism of government because that’s their funder. The other thing is that if you’re dependent on government you are less likely to think imaginatively and innovatively and cleverly about how to solve your own problems.”
Larry Martin
“A whole bunch of places that have ethanol plants are finding that their water tables are falling. It’s based on corn in the U.S. and there’s a growing dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico because of the nutrients and chemicals that are washed down the Mississippi River from the run-off.”
David Pankratz
Frontier interviews David Pankratz, Director of the Institute for Community Peacebuilding at Canadian Mennonite University, about smarter ways to assist low income Canadians.
Antoine Hacault
Frontier discusses a troubling precedent-setting case with Antoine Hacault, the lawyer for the Foulliard family from the RM of Ellice, Manitoba. The local RM council is movng to expropriate their land for tourism development purposes.
Dr. Jacques Chaoulli
Our conversation with Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, the man who successfully challenged Canada’s entrenched healthcare monopoly.