Allegations of widespread abuse against the children who attended Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRSs) began their slow but steady promotion three decades ago. Since that time, Indigenous activists increasingly began pushing more scurrilous assertions about the...
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Leaders on the Frontier – Nothing Found – With Tom Flanagan
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Residential School Recrimination, Repentance, and Reality
Allegations of widespread abuse against children who were said to have been forced to attend Canada’s Indian Residential Schools were uncommon before the last of them was shuttered in 1996. That was the year the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples...
Media Release – Experts Challenge Residential School Abuse Allegations
Recent discussions surrounding Canada's Aboriginal Residential Schools have ignited fierce debates over allegations of widespread abuse against Indigenous children. In a new report released by the Frontier Centre, retired anthropology professor Hymie Rubenstein and...
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Sustaining a Pariah State: Pakistan’s Ignominious Alliance in Afghanistan
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Endemic Path is the Way Out
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
A Cultural History of Education Part 6
Part 6 of 6 : Something Needs to be Done
Education Failure Has Many Fathers
This Saskatchewan teacher’s strike is about something no one wants to say openly
Canada’s Productivity Problems Are Deeply Rooted
Canada’s relatively weak productivity is one of the most discussed but least resolved economic problems confronting Canadians. The problem is often attributed to inadequate investment, insufficient competition, internal trade barriers and many other possibilities. The...
Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch
Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs.
School Trustee Suspensions Happening Far Too Often
It was just a few short years ago that the Pallister government introduced Bill 64. Among other things, Bill 64 would have abolished school boards and replaced elected trustees with provincial appointees. The reaction was fast and furious. The Manitoba School Board...
The Far Left and Far Right Converge in Hating Jews and Israel
They might not agree on much else, but the political far left and the far right strive to perfect and project their hate of Jews and Israel. They converge in this hatred, as in many other aspects of politics. Conventionally, following the spatial distribution of the...
What should be the target levels for immigrants living in Canada?
There is a growing recognition that the levels of immigration, temporary foreign workers, and international students may be more than our country can absorb. This view is now recognized by many non-partisan banks and economists. Fortunately, the Liberal government...
Slouching Toward an Abyss: Troubling Questions in a Critical Year for America and the West
As it was in the 1970s, ordinary people are slouching toward an abyss they may never be able to climb out of.
Believe It Or Not, There Is Good News About Rising Interest Rates
It is taking a while, but a prolonged period of elevated interest rates, at both the short end set by the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, and at the long end in the bond market set by domestic and foreign investors, is coming to be...