There have been thousands of cases of unprovoked firearm attacks in the United States over the past ten years and countless more prior to that. Senseless shootings at schools, places of worship, shopping malls, workplaces and hospitals. And there has been an endless...
Essay
History – The Changing Tides of Revisionism
“For better than a century many historians have found it useful to employ a Fabian tactic against critics in related fields of intellectual endeavor. The tactic works like this: when criticized by social scientists for the softness of his method, the crudity of his...
Indian Juggernaut—A COVID-19 Time Bomb
China first reported the detection of an unknown strain of virus in Wuhan to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Country Office in China on December 31, 2019, an event that changed the world. Eleven million residents of Wuhan city were placed under an unprecedented...
Historical Parallels: Is Canada Becoming a Totalitarian State?
This essay spells out what many people have alluded to: that Canadians are losing their freedoms and that this once prosperous and proud country is on the brink of becoming a statist mock-democracy where people live in fear of their government and of fellow citizens...
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Time to Stop Lockdowns, Vaccine Mandates and Crushing Our Charter of Rights
If one was to discuss the state of the world’s democracies in September of 2019, it would look entirely different than it does today in 2022. Three years ago, Canadians generally thought that: our democracy was relatively strong and citizens would defend their...
Propaganda Rules the World
One of the greatest books that explain how the world works is Propaganda by Edward Bernays. The man dubbed “the father of public relations” applied the psychological ideas of his uncle Sigmund Freud upon the masses, triggering their basic motivations to the benefit of...
Power To The People – With Pellets
One Canadian study, indicates that 70 per cent of the money that people and governments spend on wood pellet heat stays within the region – compared with 10 per cent of the money they spend on oil heat.
Peer Review, Publication in Top Journals, Scientific Consensus, and So Forth
An academic talks about funding politics in the climate change research community.
Rolf Penner Vs. The CWB On Marketing Choice
The federal Minister of Agriculture told the Canadian Wheat Board to stick to its job and stay out of grain politics. If the Board chooses to interfere anyway, couldn’t it at least get its facts straight?
Warsaw: Rising Like a Phoenix Out of Planning
Warsaw is going in the right direction, as people and businesses locate where it is less costly, improving the quality of life. On the other hand, many urban areas in the more affluent Western World are determined to contract the planning disease and their citizens are paying the price in excessively high land
prices.
Smart Growth and the Ideal City
Economist Randal O’Toole explores the parallels between the visions of East German central planners and modern urban planners.
Government Policy Hamstrings Downtown Revival
The Frontier Centre’s offices are located in the Hammond Building, in Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District.