The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a wave of demands to fix every inconvenience of life by government decree. The four-day workweek, an old darling of social engineers, has made a comeback as governments pick up the pieces of locked-down economies. On June 15, the...
The subject of western separatist sentiment has been receiving a lot of attention since the election. Western fossil fuel companies, like Encana, are increasingly decamping to Texas and other points south. But the fossil fuel industry is not the only resource industry...
The Mackenzie Institute interviews Frontier Centre research associate, Anil Anand, a retired police inspector and author of: “Mending Broken Fences Policing.” Anand has worked as a police officer fir thirty years. He has worked on cases ranging from routine...
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control threw logic out the window with their “COVID-19 and Sex” advice. Glory holes aren’t the only thing to peek at here. From start to finish, the document reveals contradiction, ignorance, and even hypocrisy. First up, “If you’re...
Recently, members of ‘Extinction Rebellion’, a climate change activist group, sat in protest at the University of British Columbia, beginning a hunger strike on January 6th, trying to stop UBC’s pension fund from making or holding any investments in...
A future U.S. circuit court ruling in Boston – depending on whether it upholds a lower court ruling from Maine – may mean more American cities on both coasts adopt restrictive ordinances prohibiting the bulk loading of crude oil tankers in their city’s ports, thus...
New Zealand has avoided scandals like Adscam by separating politicians from administration.
Mark Milke’s satire of our healthcare in another venue
The daily press hammers out doom and gloom headlines about high-production agriculture and the use of pesticides to produce food
Manitoba’s forced mergers of school divisions haven’t turned out as well as their advance billing.
Medicare’s monopoly status and state restrictions on constitutional freedoms is unacceptable. Elected officials instead should be questioned on how they will ensure individual rights are respected, not eroded by the state
Forced amalgamations of school divisions have not lived up to their billing. Instead of saving money, they raised costs substantially.
Canadians should be thankful for last week’s Supreme Court decision on medicare. It has created the opportunity for an honest debate about how to fix publicly funded health care.
IN a groundbreaking move, a group of northern Manitoba leaders is opening the door to a universal vote for grand chief — a change that could have a profound effect on First Nations.
Powerpoint slides that accompanied speech by Peje Emilsson, Swedish voucher school entrepreneur, to Frontier Centre, May 19th, 2005 in Winnipeg