Many do not know this, but zinc is an important ingredient in disinfectants, such as soap. So, in a sense, zinc is playing an important role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 as many Canadians use disinfectants containing zinc. After …
COVID-19 Impact On Indigenous Business
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on the already fragile Indigenous economy, making the Indigenous economic recovery that much more important. Gaming – including Indigenous-owned casinos – plays a significant role in Indigenous economies, especially in the Western provinces. …
Indigenous Communities need to be Partners in Canada’s COVID-19 Recovery Plan
It’s easy to forget that at the beginning of the year, Canada was right in the middle of another crisis triggered by a series of protests over a natural gas pipeline being built through northern B.C. The issue of Indigenous …
Post-COVID Aspects of Canadian Culture and its Influence on Government Behaviour
The last few weeks exposed schizophrenic aspects of Canadian culture and their influence on governments’ behaviour. The most palpable example lies in how we trampled, in fear, over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and human …
Indigenous Response to COVID-19: Canada v. US
Canadians watching the United States are sadly seeing what the COVID-19 pandemic is doing to Native American communities, knowing what it could have done to Indigenous peoples here. The infection rates for many Native American communities is much higher than …
Indigenous Entrepreneurial Response to COVID-19
A Winnipeg area Indigenous entrepreneur might hold the key to Indigenous peoples controlling their own response to the COVID-19 pandemic. His experience also underscores why it is so important to unshackle the Indigenous business community and entrepreneurial sector from restrictions …
From the Fiscal COVID Collapse – A Roadmap for Rebuilding Manitoba Public Policy
Canada’s Triple A credit rating was downgraded a notch to AA by Fitch Rating on June 24th. Sadly, it’s no surprise – expect more downgrades as politicians stumble over each other to throw borrowed (and printed) money at the victims …
Impact of COVID-19 on Canada’s Economy
After months of COVID-19 restrictions causing a full economic shutdown of our country and others worldwide, what will be the result? Our guest today is Fergus Hodgson, Research Associate at Frontier Centre for Public Policy and Director of EconAmericas. WATCH …
COVID-19 has Revealed how Modern Politics has Banned Common Sense
If there is one thing that the coronavirus pandemic has taught us, and it has taught us many things, it’s that partisan politics has completely taken hold of public discourse and, in effect, banned common sense. This truth was made …