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Education
Stefanson’s Right To Pledge A Parent-Affirming Education Policy
A free society puts parents above the state and educators. Thankfully, that’s what Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson wants to do. While on the mid-August campaign trail, the Progressive Conservative premier proposed four new parental rights for the Public Schools...
Respecting Parental Rights Should Be a Given
In a recent campaign announcement, PC leader Heather Stefanson promised to protect parental rights in schools. Specifically, Stefanson said that parents will have the right to be informed about curriculum, the right to be involved in addressing bullying, the right to...
What’s the Solution to the Cultural War in Schools?
The cultural war has been in full bloom in U.S. education for at least five years. Now it has spread to public schools in Canada. This war pits left-leaning liberal teachers, administrators, parents, and school board trustees against right-leaning conservatives. The...
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Canada in 2073—Will There Be One?
“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
World Cries out for Canadian LNG, “No Business Case” Feds have Totally Failed Us
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
Students Deserve a Safe Learning Environment
Saunders Secondary School in London, Ontario is home to approximately 2,000 students. It’s been in the news a lot lately, but not in a good way. A recent CBC story quoted an anonymous teacher who described Saunders as a “tinderbox of violence” where students regularly...
Teachers Must Respect Parental Values
When parents send their children to school, they place a lot of trust in teachers. It’s important that teachers not undermine that trust. Unfortunately, some teachers haven’t learned this lesson. For example, last year a school posted a message on its outdoor sign...
We Should not Put too much Emphasis on Technology
Technology has had a huge impact on public education. Classrooms of today look quite different from those of a generation ago. It shows just how quickly technology changes and the extent to which it dominates our children’s lives. However, while it makes sense to...
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion may be causing more harm than good – Greymatter Podcast – Dr. Phillip Salzman
https://rumble.com/embed/v1lez9e/?pub=1u06to In this episode Constitutional Lawyer and Frontier Senior Fellow Leighton Grey and Dr. Phillip Salzman, also a Frontier Senior Fellow, have a conversation about the destruction caused by leftist "woke" culture, how...
Brownstone Institute interviews Winnipeg-based Students Against Mandates
From the website of Students Against Mandates: “We are a community of proud critical thinkers and support decision making backed by data. We oppose divisive vaccine mandates, discriminatory vaccine passports, and the tyranny that makes these unjust things possible. We...
Teachers need to take charge of their classrooms
Prospective teachers learn a lot about individualized instruction in faculties of education. That’s because teachers are encouraged to personalize learning, for each student, as much as possible. To a certain degree, this makes good sense. An inflexible cookie-cutter...
Handwriting Remains a Useful Skill
“Sign here please.” Anyone who has ever accepted a UPS delivery, signed a permission slip for a school field trip, or filled out a legal document has likely seen this phrase. Although it takes only a few seconds to sign a document, our handwritten signature means that...
It’s Time We Put Students First Rather Than Last
Finally, provincial governments are loosening public health restrictions. Based on what many health officials are saying, there’s a good chance that our country will be largely free of these restrictions by spring. This is happening not a moment too soon, particularly...
Teachers’ Unions Are Undermining Their Own Long-Term Viability
Finally, schools across Canada are starting to reopen. Most provinces had switched to remote learning at the beginning of January to assess the impact of the Omicron variant. But now, thankfully, these remote learning sessions are coming to an end. Students in British...