Chicago has experienced a disturbing number of homicides, shootings, and overall violence during the past year. Chicago, like several other American cities, is once again experiencing unprecedented levels of violent crimes, shootings, and homicides, matching the...
The finances of Canadian universities, which rank among the world’s top five nations as a study destination, are in a tailspin due to the pandemic. In March, new student visas were almost half of what they were in 2019. The writing is on the wall: Canada’s higher...
With the recent prorogation of parliament, Canadians face the chance of an election come September after the government introduces its Speech from the Throne. Many are criticizing the government’s decision to prorogue. Perhaps as all the national parties prepare for...
On July 2nd, 2020, a rather sad milestone or marker of Canada’s misplaced energy and environmental policies – not to mention its handling of federal-provincial relations – occurred. On that day, the first cargo of Western Canadian oil left Burrard Inlet on the Pacific...
I was watching a very moving piece of cinema the other day. It concerned a beautiful young woman, happily married to a successful doctor, who suddenly falls victim to a debilitating and incurable disease. She is horrified to think what will soon happen to her and...
Ten years ago, Douglas Bland, a retired lieutenant-colonel from the Canadian Forces and the Chair of Defense Studies at Queen’s University, wrote Uprising: A Novel. In this 500-page work of “fiction,” Bland outlines how militant Indigenous warriors and their allies...
Frontier is accused of power socialism in Manitoba. The Centre responds.
Powerpoint slides from Policy Seminar -Consumers in Charge: Public Ranking of Health Care – by Johan Hjertqvist, November 14th, 2005 in Winnipeg
No debate = No reform. Although private practise is not forbidden by the Canada Health Act, the policy inside the health establishment “clearly” does ban such practices.
Alberta’s largest teachers’ union didn’t like what the Frontier Centre had to say about the Edmonton Public School Board.
Neither consumers nor taxpayers will ultimately benefit from Manitoba’s intervention in natural gas markets.
The Manitoba government’s policy of using eletricity profits to subsidize natural gas consumption further distorts an already confused energy market.
Despite the repeated affirmations of the medicare establishment that there is no serious academic research establishing that private care can help lower prices or improve efficiency, all this proves is their ignorance of the very literature they’re citing.
The largest division, Winnipeg #1, requires substantially more financial resources than any other in its attempt to provide a quality education.
A dedicated teacher and ground-breaking school administrator discusses his success in Edmonton, and the elements of high-performing schools.