It’s clear Christian customs have become less welcome in the public square, and the left has developed a particular dislike for the celebration of Christmas.
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A ‘Reality Check’ on Charges of Racial Discrimination in Canada and the US
In both Canada and the United States the theory that institutions are rigged against visible minorities in favor of the white population isn’t supported by data
Hosting a Hostile UN Majority May No Longer Serve America?
For those growing up in the decades after World War II, the formation of a United Nations (UN) organization with a vision for peace and a global membership appeared to be a promising development. We were told that the UN would improve international cooperation,...
Regular Folks Are Pushing Back Against ‘Illiberal Liberalism’
Relationships between “the few and the many” have seldom been more fraught with resentment and distrust. Common men and women are being pushed around by self-centered liberal patricians who are wilfully indifferent to traditional customs and values. According to...
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Traditional Teaching is not Obsolete
Artificial intelligence has come a long way. Unlike the rudimentary software of the past, modern-day programs such as ChatGPT are truly impressive. Whether you need a 1,000-word essay summarizing the history of Manitoba, a 500-word article extolling the virtues of...
Ottawa’s Policies Defeat Its Critical Minerals Push
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a recent rush visit to the Saskatchewan Research Council’s experimental rare earth refining facility in Saskatoon. He touted his government’s efforts to promote rare earth discovery, development, and extraction, along with the...
The Growing Threat of Repressive Social Justice
Most professors and students in the social sciences, humanities, education, social work, and law, and most university officials at Canadian and American universities today have adopted a political ideology labelled “social justice,” which requires redress for...
Civilization and its Lost Lessons
On the afternoon of May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks, a plantation owner and pro-slavery politician who had been elected as a Congressman from South Carolina, strode into the nearly deserted U.S. Senate chamber. There he accosted Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who had...
There are Boarding Schools and there are Boarding Schools
Stuffed between the sections of the Globe and Mail last week was a fairly thick, glossy publication entitled Our Kids: Canada’s Private School Guide, an annual digest that I’ve browsed through occasionally, primarily out of an educator’s interest in the schools that...
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Staff | Senior Fellows | Research Fellows | Research Associates | Expert Advisory Panel | Board of DirectorsStaffPeter Holle is the founding President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an award-winning western Canadian-based public policy think tank. Since its...
Civil Forfeiture Laws Victimize Citizens
More and more Canadians are being victimized by laws that allow authorities to seize assets that are suspected of being the proceeds of crime. In several provinces, property and other assets can be seized even without formal charges being laid, let alone a conviction...
Civil forfeiture laws victimize citizens
Civil forfeiture laws across Canada are unnecessarily victimizing citizens. Rather than cling to these regimes, Canadian provinces need to move towards federal criminal forfeiture procedures found in the Criminal Code, which provide more procedural protection for...
Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem: Charles Murray examines the cloud now hanging over American business—and what today’s capitalists can do about it.
Mitt Romney’s résumé at Bain should be a slam dunk. He has been a successful capitalist, and capitalism is the best thing that has ever happened to the material condition of the human race. From the dawn of history until the 18th century, every society in the world was impoverished, with only the thinnest film of wealth on top. Then came capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. Everywhere that capitalism subsequently took hold, national wealth began to increase and poverty began to fall. Everywhere that capitalism didn’t take hold, people remained impoverished. Everywhere that capitalism has been rejected since then, poverty has increased.
The Trouble with Taxing Top Earners: Postwar economic growth does not demonstrate high top rates are harmless
Drastically higher taxes on the rich are not the right response to growing income inequality in Canada.
Too Smart For Our Own Good:: How The “Best and Brightest” May Hurt Society
Intellectuals have distorted the debate or advocated poor policy because of their lack of knowledge of the concrete consequences of their ideas, this according to a new book from Thomas Sowell.