There is a tear in society, a gap, a chasm that is growing and contributing to the wounding of the social fabric of societies almost everywhere. Those on either side of the chasm are barely able to touch one another, to understand the worldviews from the other side,...
Our society is under serious strain right now. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the worst in some people, particularly on social media. No longer do we give people the benefit of the doubt. Rather, we automatically assume the worst about those who disagree with...
“God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth.” -Acts 17:26 “Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more that I can tell and I...
There have been few practical measures presented to achieve the lofty goals laid out in the prime minister’s green agenda or the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Gender equality, increased daycare spending, and reduced fossil-fuel usage might make for...
As most of the nations of the developed world, including Canada, failed to prepare adequately for the current deadly COVID-19 pandemic, questions remain about what steps should be taken to forestall, or substantially mitigate the next microbial conflagration. While...
For the last 60 years or so, a raging storm of controversy has hung over public education in Canada. It has also pitted some educators, often called “traditionalists,” against others, often called “progressives,” and it has been affecting the way children are educated...
Ontario taxpayers still funnel billions of dollars to supposedly needy provinces like Quebec, Manitoba and those in Atlantic Canada.
The second year of the Frontier Centre’s Aboriginal Governance Index ranks governance on 51 Manitoba First Nations and 61 in Saskatchewan based on personal interviews and surveys with band residents by Frontier’s Aboriginal Policy Fellow, Don Sandberg.
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released its 2nd Annual Aboriginal Governance Index, based on a weighted composite of scores evaluating six broad areas of good governance. This year’s index covers 112 Aboriginal communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Frontier’s Aboriginal Policy Fellow Don Sandberg describes the process of polling residents on reserves to obtain a more accurate picture regarding the way in which each community was governed: its elections, administration, human rights, transparency, services and economy.
Skim through the rhetoric on Canadian health care and you’ll quickly encounter a multitude of myths. To detail even a few necessitates some Canada-U.S. comparisons, though there are superior alternatives around the world on insurance, funding and delivery.
Frontier Centre begins “on the ground” presence in Alberta with appointment of author and analyst Mark Milke as Alberta Senior Fellow.
This same mythology is the often expressed opinion that producers have no place else to go and therefore Alberta can charge them whatever it pleases in royalties.
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.
While Swedish hospitals rank among the best in the world, the slow pace of care has led many wealthy residents to opt out of the government-funded medical system. That’s creating tensions in a society where cradle-to-grave welfare programs have traditionally provided equal access to care for everyone.