We can reasonably expect the COVID-19 pandemic to be over sometime later next year. While Canada will have reported thousands of deaths, the dark total will be nowhere near the original projections (perhaps 10,000 instead of 350,000), and about 80% of those deaths...
Yuri Bezmenov has been dead for decades, but his words have renewed attention. The former Soviet journalist and KGB operative defected to Canada in 1970 and adopted the name Tomas Schuman. Although he died in 1993, his writings, lectures and interviews have found new...
No amount of hammering at the tip can by itself sink the iceberg of crime, systemic suspicion, and social neglect. The angry man seems to turn his back on reason out of a kind of pain and inner convulsion. But the man motivated by desire, who is mastered by pleasure,...
First the radicals came for the statues, and some have already been taken down. That was easy because the statues represented dead white men. Now the radicals are coming for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Will it, too, be knocked down? Before the long...
In 1849 the philosopher Henry David Thoreau was angry at his government’s actions in the Mexican-American War and at the continued legality of slavery in the U.S. In response he published an essay entitled “Civil Disobedience” in which he stated that that the evils of...
The Trojan horse of social engineers has crossed the gates. At the latest World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the Davos Manifesto 2020 replaced the original from 1973. The new one lays down a company’s duties towards “stakeholders” rather than shareholders. This...
Free-market farmers are saying the Harper government can revoke a harmful monopoly without amending the Wheat Board Act.
Canadian elections don’t usually include bribery and intimidation, but the hunt for a new Chief did at the Norway House Cree Nation. Despite that, the people said their votes weren’t for sale.
How Calgary can benefit from emulating Phoenix, Arizona.
Powerpoint Presentations from Water Quality Management: Nutrient Research & Bio-Mass Production Conference, Feb 13, 2006 in Winnipeg
Andrew Coyne is best known to Canadians for his writing in the National Post and his panel appearances on CBC-TV’s The National. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses several principles and the chances for their implementation by Stephen Harper’s government.
The Frontier Centre receives the Templeton Freedom Prize for think-tank excellence.
An internal Labour Party struggle is waging over the principles underlying “parent power” and the template for school-based management the policy recommends for public schools in Great Britain.
Despite internal Labour party opposition, Tony Blair’s government is pursuing what amounts to a voucher system to improve low-performing public schools.
Watch Lunch on the Frontier with Andrew Coyne here. (29 minutes)