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Lysenkoism: When Science is Politicized
“Lysenkoism” is a term that was coined after the Soviet geneticist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, who rose to prominence in the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s. He was known for his political influence over Soviet science, rejecting Mendelian genetics and...
Election Good Time to Propose Review of Bishop Grandin Decision
Winnipeg is saying goodbye to Bishop Grandin. His name is about to be erased from street signs, and soon he will be effectively erased from Manitoba’s history. His crime was being associated with residential schools. For reasons that are purely Canadian any public...
Anti-Parental Rights Rhetoric Undermines Public Education
The debate over parental rights has become a flashpoint in the upcoming Manitoba provincial election. The Progressive Conservatives are promising to strengthen parental rights while the Liberals and NDP have both denounced this pledge as a “dog whistle” to bigots. One...
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
When is Violence Morally Defensible to Advance Social and Political Causes?
In light of the mainstream media coverage of riots and protests in the U.S. in 2020 and the questionable claim by some in the media that the riots were "mostly peaceful protests”, the distinction between violent and peaceful protest is worthy of examination. In the...
Canada’s COVID-19 Strategy is an Assault on the Working Class By Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin Kulldorff American Institute for Economic Research Lockdowns have generated enormous collateral damage on other health outcomes, such as plummeting childhood vaccination...
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...
Lies at the Heart of Identity Politics
Identity politics demands the reduction of individual identity to collective census category identities. You are no longer an individual person with hopes and fears, talents and abilities, and motivations and opinions. The most important thing about you is your sex,...
Obsession With Identity
On my desk is a commemorative plate honouring the 1966 Grey Cup champions, the Saskatchewan Roughriders. On it are the pictures of football legend Ronnie Lancaster and his teammates. A quick scan of these portraits reveals something odd: just three of the players’...
There Really are Limits to Growth: Canadians’ Orthodox Assumptions are Flat-Out Wrong
Two centuries ago, clergyman Thomas Malthus expounded the proposition that population always outruns food supply. He said population increases geometrically while food supply increases, at best, only arithmetically. Half a century ago the Green Revolution, enabling...
Why Do We Remember?
Ever since 1931, Canadians have paused on November 11 to mark Remembrance Day, a commemoration of those who have died serving in our country’s wars. (From 1919 to 1930 the observance was called Armistice Day and held on the Sunday nearest November 11.) Men and women...
Rosa Parks and The BIPOC Café
If you wonder how the social justice war is going, look no further than the University of Michigan-Dearborn. There, in the “diversity, equity and inclusion” activism that has all but replaced education in too many of our institutions of higher learning, the...
New Book: Extremist Opportunism in the COVID Economy
WINNIPEG, MB, October 27, 2020 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just published and released a new short-book: Extremist Opportunism in the COVID Economy by Jack Buckby; a research associate with the Frontier Centre, and a British author of several books on...