Christmas is the holiday that can bring light to the darkness, but have you considered how the holiday has evolved throughout the years? Dive into the rich history of Christmas with David Leis and guest, Canadian historian and author, Gerry Bowler. Together, they...
Merry Christmas
Well, they’re at it again. A year after a Canadian Human Rights Commission position paper labeled Christmas "discriminatory" and an example of "colonialist religious intolerance", an Alberta public school has cancelled a winter concert because marking Christmas...
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Big Topics & Big Ideas
It is late December and, as one looks around, the usual sights and sounds are in evidence. The parking lots of shopping malls are full. The postman’s bag is swollen with cards, flyers, and appeals from charitable organizations. Stacks of Amazon boxes pile up beside...
Let’s face it, 2020 sucked. It was one of those years that people will remember their whole lives, the kind to judge all others by. The sort of year that, in the future, when your house burns down, your son flunks out of clown college, and your dog dies, you will be...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy!
Day 23 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 23 we wish that governments would make more use of the...
Day 19 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 19 we would wish for a tenth team in the CFL to provide a balanced...
Day 17 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 17 we would like to see a reform of EI to make it a real insurance...
The world is safer than it has ever been, and despite current economic turmoil, global poverty is in retreat. There are certainly policy improvements that could ameliorate socio-economic conditions in the western world, and there is a lot left to be done to tackle global poverty, but we are on the right trajectory.