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...
William Styron’s brilliant novel “Sophie’s Choice” has a mother forced by the Nazis to make a terrible choice - choose which child will live and which will die. Now, COVID-19 choices are just as unsettling. In Italy’s hospitals doctors must decide which patients are...
When professors around the country were busy figuring ways to deliver their classes online, two faculty members at the University of Alberta wrote a letter and enlisted the endorsement of some 200 of their leisured colleagues at 33 universities in Canada. A crisis...
The President of Silver Jeans discusses opportunity amid rapid change in a Frontier Conversation.
As the entry price into the monopoly increases the number of dairy farms is collapsing. FC034
Dramatically higher health funding in Britain’s public health monopoly results in higher costs not more service.
It’s a perfect real life laboratory. Take two similar crown corporations Saskatchewan’s SaskTel and Manitoba’s MTS in 1996 and convert one into an shareholder-owned company. What happened?
Ownership models have little effect on service levels in the competitive telecommunications industry, but they do affect the ability to invest and expand.
Professor Charlebois discusses the past, present and future of supply management in Canada.
People resort to drastic measures in the face of “free” but failing government-provided dental care.
What isn’t measured isn’t done, and compared to Manitoba, Saskatchewan is leading the way on measuring education results.
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