A Royal Commission into the Response to COVID-19, towards holding elected officials, Medical Officers of Health (MOH) accountable, and for investigation into the media’s roles in this pandemic must wait. The current deadly and damaging response must stop. The recovery...
Government
Jeffrey Tucker: Now is the Time for Mass Resignations from Within the Ruling Class
If there is a historical precedent for the truckers’ revolt in Canada, and the populist protests in so many other parts of the world, I would like to know what it is. It surely sets the record for convoy size, and it is historic for Canada. But there is much more...
Leaders on the Frontier: Brian Peckford on Saving Canada’s Democracy
Our Topic: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Canada's 14 Governments have instituted almost two years of unprecedented drastic emergency policies in an attempt to safeguard human health. These actions have severely curtailed individual rights and freedoms while causing...
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...
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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...
Hesitancy on the Border Could be the Prime Minister’s Ultimate Downfall on Vaccines
The prime minister of Canada has made no secret about his belief that every Canadian should get vaccinated. “I just want to get back to normal,” he said in May, insisting that the path back to normality was to ensure that everybody, including the “crusty old uncle...
The CIA’s Media Assets
Four years after he broke the Watergate story, Carl Bernstein quit the Washington Post and spent six months looking at the relationship between the CIA and the press. The result was a 25,000-word cover story in the October 20, 1977 edition of Rolling Stone called “The...
Moe’s Vaccination Speech and Policy Miss the Mark
Recently, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe urged his citizens to get vaccinated in a three-minute plea filled with dubious claims and faulty logic. It’s irksome that any executive assistant or speechwriter got paid to compose such nonsense. Moe said: “Those who have...
Pallister Passports
The Pallister government has recently announced a new tactic in its campaign to persuade more people to become vaccinated - immunization passports. Those carrying passports will not have to isolate for two weeks when returning to Manitoba. Proof of both doses of an...
Put the Brakes on Senate Reform
Canada needs to finally have a conversation about Senate reform before politicians and interest groups transform the institution without the participation of average citizens. The federal government has introduced a bill in the Senate that would formally recognize...
First the Infrastructure Bank, Then TransMountain, Now Air Canada; Soon, Maybe Anything, Anytime
In early April, the federal government of Canada announced that it would support Air Canada through the rest of the pandemic lockdown-induced drastic decline in air travel with a combination of loans, and, in a return to its previous status as a stratospheric ward of...
New Book: “So Much More We Can Be”
Saskatchewan’s paradigm shift and the final chapter on the Grant Devine government 1982-1991 WINNIPEG, MB, June 14, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy just released So Much More We Can Be: Saskatchewan’s paradigm shift and the final chapter on the Grant...
Public Private Partnerships in Parks Benefit Public
Manitobans should not be afraid of the government partnering with the private sector to run public services such as provincial parks. Research shows these partnership agreements with private operators are quite common, are often well run and bring significant...
Past Pandemics Handled With Common Sense
Great events in history usually have one picture that manages to capture their essence. The iconic photo of the American troops planting the flag on Iwo Jima does it for WWII and the disturbing picture of the naked little girl running for her life from napalm,...