The rupture of Calgary’s biggest water main revealed more than the problems of aging infrastructure. It showed a civic bureaucracy unable to provide basic services or fix things when they break, and a mayor eager to blame others and scold citizens for their selfishness in wanting city services in return for their tax dollars. Above all, it laid bare the increasing tendency of governments to neglect their core responsibilities in favour of social policy fetishes, and to sidestep accountability when things go wrong. Clear, competent, mission-focused public servants are a vanishing breed, writes George Koch, and governing a city is now mainly about keeping city workers, senior officials and elected politicians happy.
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Frontier Live on X – Multiple Conflicts Impact Canada – With John Robson
John Robson, columnist with the National Post, Epoch Times and Loonie Politics discusses a variety of topics and issues facing Canada. Host David Leis and John will talk about the recent Toronto by-election, aboriginal land acknowledgements, the Middle...
Cut Corporate Income Taxes Massively to Increase Growth, Prosperity
Increasing income tax on businesses and investment will not increase prosperity and personal income.
Peckford: The People Must Save Democracy In Canada and The US
Speech to the We Unify Conference In Victoria, BC, June 23, 2024 Because of time constraints at the conference this complete address was not given. But here it is! History and Application of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms—The Charter —My Magna Carta —Our...
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Time to Stop Lockdowns, Vaccine Mandates and Crushing Our Charter of Rights
If one was to discuss the state of the world’s democracies in September of 2019, it would look entirely different than it does today in 2022. Three years ago, Canadians generally thought that: our democracy was relatively strong and citizens would defend their...
Propaganda Rules the World
One of the greatest books that explain how the world works is Propaganda by Edward Bernays. The man dubbed “the father of public relations” applied the psychological ideas of his uncle Sigmund Freud upon the masses, triggering their basic motivations to the benefit of...
Building a 21st Century Transit System for Calgary
Calgary Transit is mired in the past, building an obsolete transit system designed for an archaic view of a city. Before the pandemic, transit carried 45 percent of downtown Calgary employees to work, but less than 10 percent of workers in the rest of the Calgary...
Invest in Roads Not Transit
The jury is still out in Winnipeg: should governments be spending money on roads or more public transit? Well, a new policy brief from the Frontier Centre show that the sooner governments abandon their bias against cars the better. A recent University of Toronto paper...
Multiple More Jobs Accessible by Automobile than By Transit
• A recent University of Toronto paper by Jeff Allen and Steven Farber examines work access as measured in travel time to get to work. The “30-minute job access” is a rounded-up average in all heavily populated regions in Canada. • The 2021 census revealed that...
Canadian Author T.K. Kanwar Defends the Virtues of American Liberty
Books matter! Literature can influence the course of a nation’s history. The world will long remember Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for exposing the tyranny of 20th century Bolshevism. In novels like “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” “Cancer Ward,” and “In the First...
Rules for party nominations to stop election interference?
During the current election interference investigations, a concern has been raised that both the Conservative Party nominations and Liberal Party nominations allow non-citizens and underage voters to vote in their nominations. These are not only Permanent Residence, but also Foreign Workers and International Students as young as 14.
What Do Israelis Want; What Do Palestinians Want?
Israelis and Palestinians want contrary things. Pretending that their wants are reconcilable does not help; it obfuscates reality. Imposing policies not based on reality guarantees failure. Jewish Israelis want to live in a secure and prosperous society in their...
Release The Hostages Now
Israel pulled all but one of their brigades out of the southern Rafah portion of Gaza in the early hours of Sunday, April 7, 2024. This is a very significant development, and gives rise to many questions. What it means for the release of the hostages should be the...
4 Years Later
Has the dust settled? Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in many forms: inflation, learning losses, ill-health, high crime, non-functioning government services, broken supply chains, shoddy work, displaced workers, substance...
How ‘Green’ Projects Are Looting the Treasury
The most egregious theft of collective wealth and well-being -- and it is flat-out theft -- is the churn on “alternative” forms of energy production. Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said last week in an interview with Steve Bannon that the U.S. has spent some $7...