Rodney Clifton responds to an article in the Winnipeg Free Press.
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Standardized testing fails to make the grade
In related news, the Frontier Centre For Public Policy released a report by Rodney Clifton, professor of Sociology of Education with the University of Manitoba, which states that teachers’ unions are first and foremost acting in the interest of their members, and not students.
Cracking Egg-Heads at the U of M – PowerPoint
PowerPoint from Breakfast on the Frontier with University of Manitoba Professor Rodney Clifton, September 12, 2007.
They Would Call Me a “Denier” – Let Me Explain what I Believe about Residential Schools in Canada
In our largely “post-truth” society, the validity of a given statement is increasingly assessed based on who is making it. There are even those who believe that only some should be allowed to say certain things – while others should be scorned or even imprisoned for...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Masterful COVID Guide Book for Policy Makers
A Review of: Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic, Expanded Edition by Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Genie (2 of 2)
Political Science as Public Service
Book Review: Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic by Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Genie (1 of 2)
Church Leaders Must Rebut False Residential School Claims—Not Just Repent
The German pastor, theologian, and martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is reported to have said: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” From the middle of the 1930s, Bonhoeffer was trying to wake the German Lutheran...
Surprised that the TRC’s Calls to Action Aren’t Being implemented?
The Yellowhead Institute, an Indigenous think tank at Toronto Metropolitan University, has given up on monitoring the implementation of the 94 recommendations — Calls to Action — in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report. These recommendations are what...
There Was Not One, But Three Pandemics
Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 3 of 3
COVID-19 Policies Undermined Trust in Key Institutions
Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 2 of 3
A Canary In A Coal Mine Is A Warning Sign
Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 1 of 3
There are no Indian Residential School Denialists, so Why Criminalize Them?
In a recent Canadian Press story, Kimberly Murray, the government’s special interlocutor on unmarked graves of missing Indigenous children from residential schools, is reported as saying: “We could … make it an offense to incite hate and promote hate against...
Book Review – The 1867 Project
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