Nationally, 2015 should be an interesting year on the Aboriginal file. However, what specifically should Manitoba First Nations leaders expect? What follows is a list of priority issues that should be confronted by Manitoba First Nations. The first issue is missing...
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Critical Issues In Education Today
Education researcher Michael Zwaagstra has a new handbook out from the Frontier Centre. Parents’ Guide to Common Sense Education in Saskatchewan covers issues ranging from standardized testing to report cards and teaching strategies. What issues are the most critical...
To Solve Native Issues, Focus more on the Indians and Less on the Chiefs
The country’s most famous hunger striker has declined to declare victory and moved the aspirational goal posts after successfully hijacking the Prime Minister’s schedule. Canadians are divided as to whether she is a Northern Ontario Mother Teresa or an incompetent small town administrator on a highly publicized weight loss program.
Losing Sight Of The Issues: Birds, bowling, and bags: when city councils take on needless battles
Councillors have also spent time debating and voting on matters they have no power to actually address, whether it be banning shark-fin soup, opposing the Iraq War, or ending the NHL lockout — just this week, a Vancouver city councillor put forward a motion to write a letter to the NHL and the players’ association urging them to end the standoff (it passed).
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Food Banks And Poverty – Two Different Issues: Statistics fail to bear out the claim that rising food bank use predicts rising poverty.
The rise in the use of food banks doesn’t necessarily mean poverty is rising, as many commentators have claimed. Paradoxically, it this rise has occurred while official poverty rates have been falling. This doesn’t mean food banks are a bad thing, simply that they do not necessarily indicate increases in poverty.
Personal Attacks, Never the Issues: Environmental Propaganda and Strategies
“Certain names or words trigger predictable responses to an article. People use software designed to detect keywords and immediately some respond with attacks, invariably prefaced by false personal attacks. Often responses are strategies by special interest groups.”
Band Constitutions: A Tool For Accountability?: First Nations need “made-on-reserve” remedies for governance issues
Many First Nations should adopt and take seriously band constitutions that create institutions of accountability on reserves to check the powers of chief and council.
Breakfast on the Frontier – Fred Goldberg – Climate Issues
Breakfast on the Frontier
Maoris Bring Perspectives on Youth Issues, Gangs
Here is coverage of event sponsored by the Frontier Centre - unfortunately the paper ommitted who the sponsor was. Online reviews of novelist and newspaper columnist Alan Duff’s work point out that his “somewhat simplistic message has proved highly controversial.”...
Alex Avery, Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute
In both urban and rural communities, stereotypes and preconceived notions about intensive livestock operations, factory farming, the development of genetically modified crops and the use of crop protection products and fertilizers are rife. Alex Avery offers his refreshingly honest perspective.
Global Shifts Raising Issues of Income Equality
This tale of the scientists and the millworker illustrates how globalization and technology are not only reshaping the US economy but also widening income inequality among workers.
New Report Examines ESG Investing and Indigenous Equity Ownership
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Invest in Roads Not Transit
The jury is still out in Winnipeg: should governments be spending money on roads or more public transit? Well, a new policy brief from the Frontier Centre show that the sooner governments abandon their bias against cars the better. A recent University of Toronto paper...