An Indigenous band bylaw dispute in nearby Saskatchewan highlights the problems of First Nations lack of property rights under the Indian Act. The dispute arose when a group of protesters occupied the band office at Carry the Kettle First Nation, south of Indian Head,...
The National Capital Commission (NCC) is a Crown corporation owned by the Canadian government. The NCC owns and manages over 10 percent of the lands in the National Capital Region. Moreover, the corporation owns and manages several properties, including Canada’s six...
When most Western and Asian countries were in lockdown with the pandemic, the African continent remained largely without restrictions. This shows that Africa is not afraid of the future and has a lot of opportunities opening up. China’s strong influence here is one...
For a long time, nuclear fusion has been a sci-fi fantasy; the holy grail of energy production that involves the combination of multiple atomic nuclei to generate energy. It’s the same process used by the sun to create energy, and the opposite of nuclear fission,...
Urban planners and social critics have long urged that we move to higher density, high rise urban centers, and away from dispersed, low rise, and especially single-family dwellings in the suburbs and exurbs. One of the main arguments in favor is that dense urban...
In the past few months, we have been treated to the dire and angry imprecations and accusations of the new climate absolutists, who demand total obeisance to their escalating demands and putative authority. Any critics or doubters of catastrophic anthropogenic global...
The open letter is available at a new website – www.freedomtotrade.org – which will feature news stories, exclusive webcasts, statements by signatories of the open letter, and many other items.
Calgary could soon be the first city in Canada to adopt a living wage. But the proposed policy will not help a single person in poverty and could do substantial damage to the local labour market.
During spring break, the last thing many students and their parents probably want to think about is homework. However, it is a relevant topic because there is an ongoing debate in educational circles about the value of homework.
Only five percent of global water management today is private. It is governments who mismanage and misallocate water to farmers and other special interests, as well as the politically connected, especially in poor countries. Not only does public ownership and management of water resources harm the poor, it also harms the environment by encouraging waste.
Even though homework opponents have claimed that homework is a poor use of students’ time and should be abolished, the reality is that there are solid reasons for making it a key part of the learning process.
Homework is an important part of the schooling process and it would be better to reform and improve its use than to abolish it entirely according to a new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
We’re close to the point where the public and politicians realize they have been totally deceived about the nature and cause of climate change.
By switching off lights of one hour per year while continuing to enjoy the comforts of modern life, Earth Hour highlights that the developing world really needs sanitation, nutrition, trade, and education more than the sacrifices Westerners are prepared to make for climate change.
Frontier policy analyst Joseph Quesnel reviews an excellent new book on Indian policy by Gordon Gibson, where Gibson argues the central problems confronting First Nations are the result of preferring the collective over the individual.