“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit,” Noam Chomsky once said. Emergency orders and the moralizing pronouncements of politicians have put heavy burdens on people. But in some cases, these were the mandates of hypocrites. “As we all make sacrifices...
A World Heritage site designation continues to prevent the development of one of the largest cobalt and copper deposits in North America, thereby denying opportunities for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities and serving as an example of how environmental...
Coronaphobia may not have entered our official vocabulary, but it deserves to. Virus fears have affected public policy and our daily lives. The condition is held by a great number of people. It is understandable why the elderly and immunosuppressed are worried. What...
Our universities have nurtured and foisted on America and Canada an extreme radicalism that vilifies American and Canadian history, society, and culture. This radicalism stems in the first instance from identity grievance studies programs, such as feminist and gender...
The Great Plague of 2020, like other disasters before it, has brought forth moves by governments to implement emergency powers that would not have been allowed to the ruler in normal times. Across the United States, governors have triggered clauses that grant them...
We are in lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Schools are emptied and businesses deemed non-essential closed. We must know that we are saddling the next generation with crushing debt and enormous social costs. The rationale is by social distancing measures...
A small European nation is outperforming older economies by three to one, find out how & what Canada might learn from them.
A fast overview of the issue of land-based temperature measurement and the difficulties presented by urban heat islands.
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Temperatures are warmer in the centre city compared to more isolated measuring points.
What happens when a municipal service delivered by an in-house monopoly is exposed to competition?
People respond to incentives – we compare incentives of climate change information providers and the actors in an infamous Mexican parable.
Frontier discusses the Baltic Tiger in a conversation with Mart Laar, the former Prime Minister of Estonia.
In general, Mulroney pushed an often reluctant Canadian public toward smaller government, freer enterprise, and a reduced public sector.
PowerPoint from Breakfast on the Frontier with University of Manitoba Professor Rodney Clifton, September 12, 2007.