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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Day 12 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 12 - 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 12 we wish that Canadian government would bring in spending limit...
Day 4 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar
Day 4 - 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 Four, we wish for Senate reform to fulfill the original vision of the...
Candidates Must Report on Donations Before Elections
Anyone who has been involved in municipal politics--at least over the past couple of decades--has heard virtually every candidate say they support increased transparency. Why do they say this and then not follow through? Transparency makes the democratic process work...
Tribalism that Flies In the Face of His Father’s One Canada Vision
Pierre Trudeau remains the most divisive Prime Minister in Canadian History - he is both loved and loathed. But for all this controversy, he was a champion of One Canada. He boldly fought against what he perceived as “The Two Solitudes” - where English and French...
No doubt some bureaucrats are trying to bring Trump down. Why would that surprise you?
There’s no doubt some public employees are trying to bring Trump down. But this shouldn’t surprise anyone. We live under the perception — or shall we say illusion — that civil servants are altruistic and loyally serve whichever party is in power, while actors in the...
Brexit
Having been in the United Kingdom for the last 10 days of the Brexit campaign, the victory of the Brexiteers over the Remainers was expected. The debate pitched economics against politics. Maybe, as David Smith wrote in The Times, “the economics and...
The West Needs a Strategic Pause before Working with Russia
What a difference a year makes. Recall that not so long ago, Canada and other Western states were united in their condemnation of Russia’s Vladimir Putin after Russia not-so-secretly invaded Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, shot down a commercial airliner full of...
The campaign’s final make-or-break weeks
The endgame of this long election campaign is coming into view. Thomas Mulcair’s attempt to remake the New Democratic party as a moderate-centre party has failed, brought down by what Marxists call “internal contradictions.” His promise to balance...
Harper would have the upper hand in a minority House
Once again, minority government seems like a possible outcome of a federal election, so let’s look at some scenarios. They all involve a double helix of constitutional rules and political calculations. Start with the constitutional parameters. A sitting prime...