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John Bonnett: As A Prof At Brock University, I Don’t Want The ‘Woke Class’ Telling Me What To Say
Commentary, Free Speech, Universities
Universities must remain strictly neutral on issues, save for one thing: the defence of academic freedom
2024 Republican Presidential Candidate?
The USA is about to start their Presidential Primaries, with the Republican Party actively seeking a candidate. No Democrat is a threat to President Biden. Former President Donald Trump has a commanding lead among Republicans, but a few candidates are still left in...
Costly Construction Isn’t the Culprit Behind Unaffordable Housing. Costly Land Is
Commentary, Housing Affordability, Property Rights
The latest Demographia report on housing affordability in Canada, which I produce for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, reveals that over half of the 46 Canadian housing markets we assess are severely unaffordable. In fact, Vancouver and Toronto rank as third and...
Over 20 Canadian Housing Markets Are “Severely Unaffordable”
BNN Bloomberg
Neither Safe Nor Effective
Civil Liberties, Commentary, COVID-19
National Citizens Inquiry
BC Public Service Employee Phillip Davidson’s Testimony on Job Loss Due to Vaccine Mandate
COVID-19, Video, Public Sector, Workplace
National Citizens Inquiry
National Citizens Inquiry Says COVID Times Beg for Renewal in Canadian Institutions
Civil Liberties, Commentary, COVID-19, Healthcare
The final report of the National Citizens Inquiry into Canada’s response to COVID-19 is out. The question now is whether policy makers will let its conclusions sink in. The independent, citizen-led, citizen-funded inquiry issued subpoenas to 63 members of government,...
Leaders On The Frontier – Ideology and the Law – With Bruce Pardy
Civil Liberties, Video, Leaders on the Frontier, Justice
Big Topics & Big Ideas
In Case of Emergency, Read This! Alberta’s Covid-19 Report
Civil Liberties, COVID-19, Essay, Culture Wars
Despite the wreckage wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic – social disintegration, ruined lives, physical and economic tolls – the governments and public officials who “managed” the emergency have been decidedly uninterested in assessing their performance. Except in Alberta, where a government-appointed panel just released its Final Report. Though predictably attacked by politicians, media and “experts” who can abide no dissent, the report makes many sensible recommendations, Barry Cooper finds. The report calls for emergency management experts – not doctors or health care bureaucrats – to be in charge when such disasters strike, with politicians who are accountable to the people making the key decisions. Most important, the report demands much stronger protection for the individual freedoms that panic-stricken governments and overbearing professional organizations so readily quashed.
How “Woke-ism” Threatens Academic Freedom
Essay, Culture Wars, Free Speech, Universities
In November 2022, Paul Viminitz, a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Lethbridge, invited me to give a talk on the threat “woke-ism” poses for academic freedom. After pressure mounted to cancel the talk, the president of the University of...
Higher Interest Rates May Make Productivity Higher Too
It is taking a while, but a prolonged period of elevated interest rates, at both the short end set by the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, and at the long end in the bond market set by domestic and foreign investors, is coming to be...
Frontier Live on X – Ches Crosbie and Ken Drysdale on the Release of the NCI Report
COVID-19, Podcast, Video, Frontier Live On X
Big Topics & Big Ideas