This past weekend, The New York Times revealed that the CIA has been deeply involved in Ukrainian politics for a decade, mucking around with politics and engaging in provocations against Russia. We already knew that from everything that non-mainstream commentators...
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The dangerous rise in eco-extremism in Canada is fueled by identity politics and exaggerated climate anxieties
Almost three years into the experimental opiate “safer supply” program in British Columbia and no one, including those handing out the pills, seems to know if it is working or making the problem worse. There are no shortage of opinions arguing on either side of the...
In a recent article about climate change, Seth Borenstein, a science writer with the Associated Press, gave us a master class on how to sell the results of a computer model as if it represents reality. In the Borenstein world, a group of scientists can take a...
A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the only thing keeping Air Canada alive is the federal-government bailouts. They are delaying the inevitable and sensible way out: cutting travel restrictions, encouraging tourism by ensuring effective containment and...
As we slide inexorably into the clutches of Soviet-style cultural narrative control and thought prevention courtesy of ‘fact-checking’ institutions and their oddly subjective ‘fact books’, I offer the following conundrum as a hurled wrench into the cogs of the greasy...
New Zealand’s high-tax, pro-lockdown party is smashed at the polls.
Jerry Morin, Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak and Anthony Olienick
On Friday, October 13 Canada’s Supreme Court ruled against federal legislation on the environmental effects of major projects. Chief Justice Richard Wagner wrote “The scheme invites the federal government to make decisions in respect of projects that it has no...
An alliance of Canadian health professionals says masks may offer more risk than reward when it comes to stopping COVID-19. This claim was made by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCCA) in a recent online newsletter. The organization of independent Canadian doctors,...
WINNIPEG Oct 11, 2023 – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy's Demographia Housing Affordability in Canada report, released today, cast a spotlight on the pressing issue of housing affordability in Canada. This comprehensive report offers a detailed analysis of...
Supplement to Demographia International Housing Affordability: 2023
Welcome to the “Brave New World”
On questions of government, politics and education, Canadians would be foolish to ignore Brian Peckford. The Newfoundland school teacher became a Progressive Conservative MLA in 1972. He was premier from 1979 to 1989 and a key part of the federal-provincial...