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Newfoundland’s Constitutional Challenge is Mistaken
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has recently announced its intention to mount a constitutional challenge relating to equalization. This decision has been justified by arguments that are not accurate and displays a lack of understanding of the...
What Does Canada Day Mean Today?
It’s Canada Day. A day that used to be a celebration of cherished values like kindness and compassion, acceptance and tolerance, quiet strength and dignity, and a work hard/play hard ethic. Today, I am celebrating the very fine Canadian men and women I have met since...
It Seems We Are Far Too Canadian; Yet Not Canadian Enough
Civil Liberties, Commentary, Culture Wars
Oh, Canada. You have been too nice. Too kind. Too silent. For too long. And now a noisy minority is undermining our country’s values, laws and institutions. Protestors have taken over many university campuses and they are fomenting hatred toward Jews and Israel. Few...
In Powell River, What’s In A Name?
Commentary, Free Speech, Reconciliation, Residential Schools
Powell River is flowing toward a name change. Juliet in Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet says “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” – just not to the good people of Powell River where the prospect of a new name is stirring up a hornet’s nest. The...
National Indigenous History Month Should Promote Truth Telling
Aboriginal Futures, Commentary, Reconciliation
The Canadian House of Commons designated June as National Aboriginal History Month in 2009. The name was changed to National Indigenous History Month in 2017. The theme of the first week of this year’s effort to “honour the stories, achievements and resilience of...
We Can And Must Adjust To Climate Change – And Not Kill Billions
Climate, Commentary, Energy, Globalization
We’ve always done so and have no right to tell others they can’t have modern living standards. Earth’s climate has changed many times over four billion years, and 99.999% of those changes occurred before humans were on this planet. During that short time, humans...
The Dangerous Slippery Slope of Activist-Driven Climate Lawsuits
Commentary, Climate, Culture Wars, Energy
Manitobans should be concerned climate activists are pushing climate change litigation – or climate change tort cases – at the U.S. state and local levels. We should all be prepared if this bizarre new legal trend introduced by climate change alarmists comes to...
Media Release: Call for Public Inquiry into the “Kamloops Graves Hoax”
Aboriginal Futures, Media Release, Residential Schools
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Canada Needs a Public Inquiry into the “Kamloops Graves Hoax” Call for a public inquiry is a step towards uncovering the truth and ensuring such a national scandal never happens again WINNIPEG, June 28, 2024 – The Frontier Centre for Public...
Doctor’s Stunning Overview Of Vaccines And The Pandemic
National Citizens Inquiry
Who won the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump?
Biden? Trump?
A Limited Hangout on Vaccine Harms
Well, it’s finally happened. The New York Times (NYT) has acknowledged COVID vaccine harms. In a major piece written by their top pandemic reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, the paper has written of “thousands” the world over who have experienced when it is more like...
Malign Neglect: What Calgary’s Water-Main Break Reveals about the Failure of City Government
Commentary, Municipal Government
The rupture of Calgary’s biggest water main revealed more than the problems of aging infrastructure. It showed a civic bureaucracy unable to provide basic services or fix things when they break, and a mayor eager to blame others and scold citizens for their selfishness in wanting city services in return for their tax dollars. Above all, it laid bare the increasing tendency of governments to neglect their core responsibilities in favour of social policy fetishes, and to sidestep accountability when things go wrong. Clear, competent, mission-focused public servants are a vanishing breed, writes George Koch, and governing a city is now mainly about keeping city workers, senior officials and elected politicians happy.