Frontier Senior Fellow Brian Giesbrecht on the Richard Syrett radio show on July 2, 2024. Giesbrecht questions why Prime Minister Minister Trudeau continues to claim that unmarked graves were found on the grounds of Kamloops Indian Residential School after the...
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The Quiet Remaking of Canada
Most Canadians are unaware that a campaign to remake Canada is underway. The conception of that most Canadians have of their country - that it is, one nation, in which citizens of different ethnic, religious and racial groups are all treated equally, under one set of...
In Powell River, What’s In A Name?
Powell River is flowing toward a name change. Juliet in Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet says “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” – just not to the good people of Powell River where the prospect of a new name is stirring up a hornet’s nest. The...
National Indigenous History Month Should Promote Truth Telling
The Canadian House of Commons designated June as National Aboriginal History Month in 2009. The name was changed to National Indigenous History Month in 2017. The theme of the first week of this year’s effort to “honour the stories, achievements and resilience of...
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
Censorship Is an Act of Desperation
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Don’t Be Fooled by High-Speed Rail
The Canadian government is considering spending $6 billion to $12 billion to introduce what it calls “high-frequency trains” between Toronto and Quebec City. Though some media reports have described these as high-speed trains (which generally means trains capable of...
Frontier Live on X – How Can Canada Get Out Of Trouble? -With Peter Menzies
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Should Manitoba subsidize EV purchases?
Manitoba’s NDP Government has announced that it will be providing a provincial subsidy of $4,000 for new Electric Vehicles (including Plug-in Hybrids), with a MSRP of less than$70,000, or $2,500 for a used one less than 4 years old. The problem is that the least...
The End of Canada: The Shift from Democracy to Totalitarian Behaviour in the ‘Pandemic Era’
Introduction March 2024 marks the fourth anniversary of one of the most disastrous assaults on human rights in Canadian history. This assault was in synch with what unfolded in democracies across ‘the West.’ In her 2007 book, The End of America: Letter of Warning To A...
Leaders on the Frontier – Why are Buses Better than Rail Transit? – With Randal O’Toole
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Whoa Daddy: Quesnel City Councillors Kill Democracy Over the Book Grave Error
In the movie Fargo, the camera captures the horror on the blood-spattered face of one of the characters who, after seeing his psychopathic partner shoot a police officer right before his eyes, murmurs “Whoa Daddy.” Watching the complete breakdown of democracy at the...
The Tale of Two Teachers
At L.A. Matheson, a high school in Surrey, B.C., a poster in Annie Ohana’s classroom suggests society is too moralistic about sex work, the quote coming from an avowed Satanist. National Post writer Jamie Sarkonak described her classroom in this way: “The walls are...
Scotland’s Crazy Anti-hate Law May Be Sign Of Things To Come Here
Some argue that Scotland’s new hate speech law is more draconian than Canada’s yet-to-be-enacted equivalent, Bill C-63. Others say this is not so — that portions of '63' are even greater threats to free speech than Scotland’s extreme new law. Regardless of who wins in...