Yad Vashem means “a memorial and a name.” Though I am not a Jew, I nevertheless add my name of Lee Harding and my memories of my visit. My visit in 2009 to the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem has left an enduring impact on me. The largest lasting...
Since we’ve recently celebrated Christmas, I decided to approach a poignant topic from a religious and philosophical perspective. In this vein, I recalled a great theologian whose work I studied as an undergraduate at Lutheran College, and marked its application to...
It’s a mystery why some people suddenly eschew their past principles. This phenomenon is especially notable when people of power and fame forget principles they have sworn to uphold as responsible professionals. This mystery is evident in Senator Murray Sinclair’s...
Each of our great universities used to have official mottos that were meant to stand for their values. For example, McGill University’s was “Grandescunt Aucta Labore,” ‘by work, all things increase and grow’; Western University’s was “Veritas et Utilitas,” ‘truth and...
There are those who believe we shouldn’t criticize our political (and other) leaders during a crisis. The Canadian way is to get through it first, then hold inquiries and, many years and millions of dollars later, we will know who failed in their leadership tasks and...
As we stumble through the Great Pandemic of 2020 it has become clear that every citizen on this planet is an unwilling participant in what is surely the biggest experiment in human history. Simply put, roughly half of us are social distancing with our economies in...
PowerPoint slides from the Meeting for Policy Experts presentation with Larry Mitchell, Local Government Performance Analyst from New Zealand on November 28, 2007 in Halifax at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies.
Full accrual accounting, world-class asset management and robust public disclosure cannot come fast enough to Canada’s cities.
PowerPoint slides from the Breafast on the Frontier presentation with Dr. Jon Gerrard, Manitoba Leader of the Liberal Party, on November 7, 2007.
Individual one page city financial performance summaries from the 2007 Local Government Performance Index, released November 27th, 2007.
The Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change, of which the Frontier is a member, releases a report on global warming.
A new report produced by a coalition of over 40 prominent civil society organisations from 33 countries says that governments should reject calls for a post-Kyoto treaty (“Kyoto 2”) with binding limits on carbon emissions.
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy releases its inaugural Local Government Performance Index (LGPI). It contains some 3000 data points concerning the 2005 financial performance of municipalities in Canada’s 30 most populous jurisdictions.
Another brutal gang murder in Winnipeg underlines a serious problem in our aboriginal community.
Text of David MacKinnon’s speech to the Frontier Centre on how unsustainable regional subsidies are starting to break an Ontario economy beset by severe competitive pressures.