Frontier talks to Mark Chamberlain about fighting poverty in Hamilton through “cross-sectoral collaboration”.
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Frances Widdowson, Co-Author of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry
Frontier interviews Frances Widdowson in a Conservation on the Frontier.
Dr. Mitchell Taylor, Polar Bear Biologist
Frontier interviews Polar Bear biologist Mitch Taylor in a Conservation on the Frontier.
Martin Durkin, Director of The Great Global Warming Swindle
If you examine the mountain of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) literature on this, you’ll find the vast majority of it concerns the possible (projected) effects of climate change. Most of this is highly suspect and does not address the central question of whether humans are causing the climate to change. The climate has always changed. Climate change is nothing new.
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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...
Harry Lehotsky, Inner-City Preacher, Activist and Change Agent
Many social agencies are “poverty pimps,” living high off the hog while their clients remain trapped in dysfunctional neighbourhoods? A front-line perspective from a Winnipeg icon.
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The Right Honourable Edward Schreyer
The former Manitoba Premier and Governor General of Canada takes his own party to task for its energy policies, especially cross-subsidization and delays in licensing new dams.
Corin Taylor, Economics Analyst, Reform Think-Tank
Really want to help the poor? Reform government programs that focus on their needs. Make them transparent and productive vehicles for compatting poverty, not “jobs for life” for bureaucrats.
Christopher Hitchens, intellectual and contrarian
Author, gadfly, pundit and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers up more of his unusual, sardonic take on the failings of the modern world.
Dr. Andrew Sharpley, soil scientist, et al.
Are experts and regulators on the same track when it comes to writing laws for water protection? Side-by-side interviews indicate a problem.
Andrew Coyne, National Affairs columnist, the National Post
Andrew Coyne is best known to Canadians for his writing in the National Post and his panel appearances on CBC-TV’s The National. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses several principles and the chances for their implementation by Stephen Harper’s government.
Roger Samson, REAP-Canada
Can we win environmentally and economically by using Prairie biomass as heating fuel? Roger Samson emphatically says, “Yes.”
Dr. Mark Godley, Maples Surgical Clinic, Winnipeg
Can the private sector deliver cost-effective services within a public healthcare system? A Canadian doctor with an established record of doing that says it can, and explains how and why.
Alex Avery, Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute
In both urban and rural communities, stereotypes and preconceived notions about intensive livestock operations, factory farming, the development of genetically modified crops and the use of crop protection products and fertilizers are rife. Alex Avery offers his refreshingly honest perspective.