Over the past week, media across the world have proclaimed 2020 a record year for hurricanes in the North Atlantic. The culprit? Man-made climate change, of course. But this is a mistake, not only because the “records” are misleading but also because the causes of...
Results for "Fcpp.org"
Canada’s Sexist Child Support Guidelines
If Christopher Sarlo is right, Canada’s Federal Child Support Guidelines are wrong. The economics professor at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario made an in-depth analysis on the basis for the Guidelines and found them wanting. His 100-page examination leads...
The Geothermal Energy Revolution
There is a revolution coming in geothermal energy. How big it will be and how fast it can grow remains to be seen, but the revolutionary technology is here now. We already know about the new technology by name — fracking. But that is fracking for oil and gas, the...
As the Oil and Gas Industry Suffers Secular Decline, TD’s Arctic Virtue Signaling is Irrelevant
In recent days, Toronto Dominion Bank announced that it will not loan money towards any oil and gas or related development in the Arctic. While this may elicit joy from the woke anti-fossil fuel global warmists, this was, in reality, a very easy decision for TD, and...
Featured News
Fractured Beacons of Idealism and the Neglect of Moral Obligations
The largest democracy and the most powerful nation have been left disrobed of their pageantry and power - shamefully failing their own citizens, revealing their disintegrating moral façade. It is said that the measure of a person is not what they do when things are...
Five ways the Surveillance State is in Hyperdrive
Pandemic Gives Government Perfect Excuse to Monitor Citizens Crises are the perfect breeding ground for authoritarians and social engineers. The extreme measures governments have rolled out to contain the COVID-19 pandemic remind us that fear often trumps any...
New Funding for Native Entrepreneurs Positive Move
New funding for Manitoba First Nations entrepreneurs requires strong leadership to ensure that budding business people have the unmolested support of their band councils.
A Billion People live on a Dollar a Day
Two page pdf file
Antoine Hacault
Frontier discusses a troubling precedent-setting case with Antoine Hacault, the lawyer for the Foulliard family from the RM of Ellice, Manitoba. The local RM council is movng to expropriate their land for tourism development purposes.
Dr. Jacques Chaoulli
Our conversation with Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, the man who successfully challenged Canada’s entrenched healthcare monopoly.
It’s Great to Come Home – but . . .
It’s Great to Come Home – but . . .
After the Chaoulli Judgment — What’s Next?
PowerPoint slides from Lunch on the Frontier with Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, December 6, 2007 in Winnipeg.
Adaptation, Not Emission Cuts
Government officials from around the world have descended on the Indonesian resort island of Bali for two weeks of climate negotiations. The talk is of a new Kyoto-like treaty, with global caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. But such a treaty would harm the poor,...
A Thread Down a Football Field
An analysis of why the west side transmission line in Manitoba is sub-optimal environmental and energy policy.
Don’t Fight, Adapt
An Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on climate change. It is signed by more than 100 specialists from around the world — many are leading figures in their fields, from climate science to economics to biology.