A person without roots, without a memory, without a story can be easily influenced and cause no trouble to the authorities. A nation without a common history in which citizens can take pride cannot long survive.
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Why Are Native Impersonators Fired While Female Impersonators Are Celebrated?
The president of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Vianne Timmons, was fired by the university’s Board of Regents in April 2023, according to an Epoch Times report. She had claimed that her father’s great-great-grandmother was Mi’kmaq. This claim was challenged by...
What I Learned When Students Tried to Cancel Me
Even being attacked can be educational and enlightening. In November 2020, eight official student groups published a public letter demanding that the McGill Administration rescind my Emeritus status. This was allegedly necessary in order to honor “the right of Muslims...
Reaping Postmodernism’s Violent Whirlwind
Part Three of a Four Part Series In December 2008, Denis Rancourt was suspended from his tenured professorship in physics at the University of Ottawa—an action that resulted in his termination a few months later. This occurred after a five-year battle with university...
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Raw-Milk Prohibition Reveals Policy Backwardness
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
The Pawlowski Decision
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
American Myths
When the September 11th terrorist attacks happened, many in this country were astonished at how quickly it took for many Canadians to reveal they secretly believed America had it coming. In fact, it seems anti-Americanism is our civic religion that we can barely conceal any longer. In this excellent collection of 15 essays, Griffiths has assembled a diverse group of writers to each present a particular area of life touching on Canadian-American relations that has been distorted by anti-Americanism.
An Arm And A Leg
“The overarching nonsense is the twin claim that the science of climate change is settled, and that it represents the greatest crisis facing the planet. Even more nonsensical is the assertion that economic self-mutilation might be good for us. This could soon deteriorate into all-out trade war, and/or sink beneath the deadweight of bureaucratic edict.”
Rudd Puts Public Fat Cats On Notice
Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd has warned the nation’s top mandarins he is not afraid of privatising government services to slash spending or poaching private-sector staff to reinvigorate the public service.
Bryan Schwartz
“If everyone is beholden to government, if you have a supplicant society, people are hesitant about engaging in free thinking and forthright criticism of government because that’s their funder. The other thing is that if you’re dependent on government you are less likely to think imaginatively and innovatively and cleverly about how to solve your own problems.”
The Myth Of The Level Playing Field
Frankly, an "in-and-out" scheme sounds quaintly titillating. But a possible in-and-out scheme run by the Conservative party in the last federal election promises to dominate question period and national news coverage for the next week or two, perhaps longer. Elections...
Its No Accident that What Happens at Yellow Quill . . . Happens
Most people have so damned little that anyone who appears to be doing even a little better is immediately suspect.
Sask. First Nations Do Well
Results from a survey on aboriginal governance were released on Monday with some surprising results. "First Nations, which do well in terms of transparency and administration, tend to do better at the economy and the overall governance score," said David Seymour,...
Rethinking the Reserve – Problems of Governance
Part of a National Post series examining solutions to the challenges that plague the reserve system.
Rethinking the Reserve – Polling the Rank-and-File
Frontier’s Aboriginal Policy Fellow Don Sandberg describes the process of polling residents on reserves to obtain a more accurate picture regarding the way in which each community was governed: its elections, administration, human rights, transparency, services and economy.