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Canada’s Lost Decade
Climate, Commentary, Core Public Sector Reform, Public Finance & Fiscal Federalism, Taxation
In the 1980’s, the world was infatuated with Japan. Its economy was on fire and was projected to overtake the USA as the world’s number one economy by the year 2000. That came to a grinding halt in the 1990’s as the Japanese stock market collapsed and economic...
Does ‘Woke-ism’ Threaten Academic Freedom?
Free Speech, Video, Residential Schools, Universities
"Any presentation worth banning is a presentation worth attending.” So said Richard Mueller, an economics professor at the University of Lethbridge, on September 16 at the Lethbridge Public Library. Mueller was paraphrasing biochemist and writer Isaac Asimov who...
No Farmers, No Food, No Future
Agriculture, Climate, Commentary, Culture Wars, Environment
All over the world, everywhere you look. And now bugs. They are actually serious about bugs, and when I say ‘they’ I mean the government. Justin Trudeau, the most hated prime minister in history, granted millions to yet another bug factory not too long ago. This...
Leaders On The Frontier – Canada: Darkness Or Light – With Steven Edginton
Audio, Civil Liberties, Culture Wars, Podcast, Video, Leaders on the Frontier
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Etam: Solar Power’s Massive Potential
Commentary, Energy, Environment
As we slide inexorably into the clutches of Soviet-style cultural narrative control and thought prevention courtesy of ‘fact-checking’ institutions and their oddly subjective ‘fact books’, I offer the following conundrum as a hurled wrench into the cogs of the greasy...
The Left Loses Badly Down Under
Civil Liberties, Commentary, Core Public Sector Reform, Culture Wars, Disruption, Free Speech, Public Finance & Fiscal Federalism
New Zealand’s high-tax, pro-lockdown party is smashed at the polls.
The Coutts Four and Denial of Bail in Canada
Civil Liberties, Commentary, Justice
Jerry Morin, Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak and Anthony Olienick
Some Non-Partisan Education Advice for the New Government
Earlier this month, Manitobans elected a new provincial government. As a result, NDP leader Wab Kinew will soon be sworn in as Manitoba’s twenty-fifth premier. No doubt premier-designate Kinew intends to make significant changes to education policy. So here is some...
Supreme Court rules federal environmental law regulation unconstitutional.
On Friday, October 13 Canada’s Supreme Court ruled against federal legislation on the environmental effects of major projects. Chief Justice Richard Wagner wrote “The scheme invites the federal government to make decisions in respect of projects that it has no...
Shawn Buckley – The Political Approval of the Covid Vaccine: A Constitutional Lawyer’s Perspective
Civil Liberties, COVID-19, Video
National Citizens Inquiry, Quebec City, Day 2
To Mask Or Not To Mask? The Answer Is In The Evidence
Commentary, COVID-19, Healthcare
An alliance of Canadian health professionals says masks may offer more risk than reward when it comes to stopping COVID-19. This claim was made by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCCA) in a recent online newsletter. The organization of independent Canadian doctors,...
New Report Highlights Housing Affordability Challenges Across Canada
Media Release, Housing Affordability
WINNIPEG Oct 11, 2023 – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy's Demographia Housing Affordability in Canada report, released today, cast a spotlight on the pressing issue of housing affordability in Canada. This comprehensive report offers a detailed analysis of...