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Downside of Calgary Downtown Residential Conversions?
The Calgary Herald reports that some office tenants are being forced out of their buildings in the city of Calgary’s program to convert office buildings to residential uses. We had covered this program recently, noting that “that the City has adopted an aggressive...
This Is The Century Of Natural Gas
The headline above is not designed to make young heads explode, It’s really not. But it might. Before getting to why that might be, consider why the headline is a credible statement. The evidence is, in total, overwhelming. Here’s a 2023 headline from an...
Bill 35 Doesn’t Go Far Enough
In a recent op-ed (Winnipeg Free Press, May 2, A7), my colleague from the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba, John Wiens, argued that Bill 35, The Education Administration Amendment Act, goes too far. He claims that “it begins to look like just one...
Macdonald’s Legacy (Part 1): Reclaiming a Foundational Leader
Part 1 of a 5 part series
Frontier Centre’s David Leis Testifies to the National Citizens Inquiry
“We need to do better”
Is it a good idea for private donors to fund woke universities?
Background information - Is 'Boomer Sooner' Going Bust? University of Oklahoma Donors Pull Money Over DEI BY CHRIS QUEEN PJ Media, May 15, 2023
A Call for Fiscal Sanity
After more than two weeks of shutting down virtually all federal government services, 120,000 of the picketing workers returned to work just recently. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) walkout had been brewing since last fall, when PSAC president Chris...
Green Kills
A friend of mine is building four high-rise condo and rental towers in Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, where I live. It is a charming city, founded in the 1840s, its core an almost classic English village around which a modern city was slowly...
Leaders on the Frontier: Debunking Myths about Urban Sprawl with Randal O’Toole
David Leis' guest here, Randal O'Toole has dedicated decades of research and analysis to policies that help citizens live and thrive rather than be held hostage to the demands of green belts and bureaucratic restrictions. In this conversation he debunks myths about...
A Dictated Media Message Fosters Dictatorship
What happens when our public institutions decide what “truth” you will see and hear, to the exclusion of all others? The pandemic has already told us. “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it,” ran a long-running ad tagline for the Washington Post, not unlike its...
Etam: Net Zero 2050?
Serious goal-setting seems like a very good way to torment oneself, creating a new reason out of thin air. My New Year’s resolution is to avoid setting goals. Type A is not my type. But maybe it’s time to turn over a new leaf. I’ve decided I don’t want to be a...
Alberta Election Will Impact Schools in a Big Way
This election will have a big impact on the type of learning that happens in schools.