A roundtable discussion on COVID-19 vaccines in Washington, D.C. offered insights on COVID-19 vaccines that have too commonly been suppressed. On December 7, 2022, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson hosted, “COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work, and Possible...
Having 20/20 vision used to mean seeing clearly, but in these post COVID times, that’s taken on a whole new meaning. In 2020, social isolation and masking narratives were stringently enforced, opposing opinions were muzzled, and the lockdown and mandate dogmas of...
Speech by the Honourable A. Brian Peckford on the Occasion Of The George Jonas Award Being Presented To Tamara Lich By The Justice Centre For Constitutional Freedoms, Burnaby, BC — July 13, 2022. Background It is a real honour to be asked to speak to you on this very...
The pandemic response has been misguided and contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, says former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford. The sole living First Minister from the constitutional negotiations in 1981-82 believes lockdowns and vaccine passports were...
In this essay, I explain that young people should come to university to be educated, and not to become credentialed; the public should support universities because universities educate young people, not because they produce credentialled workers. Why should a...
During the whole of recorded history, the empire has been the most constant and common form of political organization. A basic, self-evident feature of all empire-building has been the successful occupation of the lands of the local, Indigenous inhabitants by outside...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy releases a report outlining seven ‘habits’ the Alberta government should implement to increase its effectiveness in supplying services to Albertans.
Well, it’s good to know that in total points we’re ahead of Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Latvia. It means Canada beat most former Soviet bloc countries — all, really, except Estonia and the Czech Republic — in offering people medicine with a human face.
A recent Winnipeg study has named Montreal the most indebted major Canadian city, with debts over three times higher than the national average for Canadian cities. The study, entitled "Local Government Performance Index: A Financial Analysis of 30 Canadian Cities,"...
Canadian municipalities - particularly in Quebec - should adopt the practices of New Zealand municipalities when it comes to financial openness with the public, a small group of policymakers agreed yesterday. "The level of disclosure (by Canadian local governments) is...
Despite a tighter tax base and economic circumstances that are less robust than in some other Canadian centres, Winnipeg's city council appears to be doing a good job of spending its money wisely. That's according to a report released yesterday by the Frontier Centre...
A new report produced by a coalition of over 40 prominent civil society organisations from 33 countries says that governments should reject calls for a post-Kyoto treaty (“Kyoto 2”) with binding limits on carbon emissions.
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is a private think-tank based out of Winnipeg, whose job it is to push the envelope.
While Dairy products are fetching ever higher prices, wool prices are languishing. Worse, the leaders of the industry seem resigned to their fate. This is surely remarkable. At a time when everyone from Dictators to ditch-diggers is besotted by things “natural” surely...
Utahns win a hard-fought victory for school choice.