A quick Internet search for stories about Canada’s Indian Residential Schools would only yield negative ones. Accounts from self-proclaimed “survivors”—an inflammatory label deliberately selected to make former students seem like Holocaust survivors—include reports...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Positive stories about Indian Residential Schools must also be heard New Report Offers a Nuanced Perspective on Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Winnipeg, MB –Sept. 10, 2024 – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is pleased to announce the...
UBCIC Chiefs attempt to suppress open debate on residential schools.
Two years ago, Eric Metaxas, the conservative Christian American author wrote a short, but important, book addressing the American Church. He was concerned the churches were forsaking their Christian principles in not speaking out against the anti-Christian ideologies...
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...
Earlier this year, a Canadian documentary, Sugarcane, became a smash hit at film festivals, winning prizes at Sundance, Golden Gate, and Full Frame. The movie purports to reveal a history of abuse and misconduct in the Indian Residential School system. It castigates...
In our largely “post-truth” society, the validity of a given statement is increasingly assessed based on who is making it. There are even those who believe that only some should be allowed to say certain things – while others should be scorned or even imprisoned for...
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Canada’s growing protest culture is a sign of a broken system. On The Cory Morgan Show, Cory talks with Frontier Centre for Public Policy Senior Fellow and retired judge Brian Giesbrecht about how protests have been growing as citizens feel hopeless. (47 minutes)...
When is a hoax, not a hoax? They knew the study revealed 'anomalies,' not bodies. A recent article appeared in the Western Standard admonishing conservatives for using the term “hoax” when referring to the Kamloops claim — namely the MAY 27, 2021 claim — that...
Kimberly Murray has just released a second interim report that needs to be understood for what it is. Murray is an Indigenous woman who served as the Secretary of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. In 2022 Trudeau appointed her to the newly created position of...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Frontier Centre for Public Policy report refutes genocide claims Let us now commit to a future where truth and reconciliation are built on solid foundations of evidence and mutual respect WINNIPEG, July 23, 2024 – A groundbreaking report by the...
The Office of the Special Interlocutor (OSI) has released its historical report (Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience: Unmarked Burials and Mass Graves of Missing and Disappeared Indigenous Children in Canada). While OSI states that “the primary purpose of this Report...