In Ontario, churches are pushing back against COVID-19 lockdowns, staying open during holidays and advising people to practise civil disobedience. Such behaviour must be replicated across Canada. The draconian pandemic response from the provincial and federal governments has paved the …
COVID Hypocrisy: Heavy Rules and Weak Apologies
“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit,” Noam Chomsky once said. Emergency orders and the moralizing pronouncements of politicians have put heavy burdens on people. But in some cases, these were the mandates of hypocrites. “As we all …
Alberta’s Rising Crime Begs More Policing, Not Less
The year is not yet over, and Calgary has already recorded 26 homicides, six more than in 2019. Edmonton has witnessed a 90 percent spike in assaults with weapons or causing bodily harm. Unbelievably, rather than tackling this escalating violence …
Report on the Decriminalization for Simple Possession of Illicit Drugs: The Police Perspective
The Canadian Association for Police Services has just released a fourteen-page report on the decriminalization of drugs (Findings and recommendations report. Decriminalization for Simple Possession of Illicit Drugs: Exploring Impacts on Public Safety & Policing, Special Purpose Committee on the …
Populism – The Orphan Child of Democracy
Modern democracy is the crucible in which conflicts, grievances, rights, privileges, and power have been melded to produce a period of unprecedented peace following World War II, a period that gave rise to capitalism, to globalization, and to the vision …
The Rise of Zombies in the Wake of COVID-19
We are spending double the amount of time on our streaming platforms compared to last year, close to 45.4 billion minutes spent on Netflix alone in the first few weeks of March 2020. Movie titles such as: 28 Weeks Later …
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Poll Question: November 30, 2022 to December 6, 2022 On July 2, 2022 the statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II were defaced and destroyed by protestors on the grounds of the Manitoba legislature. This is one of …
Books
Over the past 20 years, Frontier Centre for Public Policy public policy ideas have made contributions to numerous educational books, written by researchers, senior fellows, and close associates. Each of the books are compositions of considerable intellectual investment and time …
Vancouver housing strategy misses the mark
A new housing and homelessness strategy came before Vancouver City Council July 26th. Its stated goal is no less than to eradicate homelessness by 2015. Aside from the impossibility of the goal, lumping general housing affordability and homelessness together into …