A couple of Maori men toured the country this month promoting their successful child literacy program and making it very clear that they’ve done it without the support of the Indigenous leaders in their country. Along the way they’ve provided …
This Land Is My Land
Canada’s much vaunted reputation for tolerance took a beating this summer in Caledonia, a town 80km (50 miles) south-west of Toronto, where a new housing development on land claimed by the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy has sparked off a series …
Left Not Always a Help to the Poor
Ever since revolutionaries toppled the French crown in 1789, the political left has asserted that the solution to shrinking poverty is to announce good intentions and follow up with government confiscation of private assets. The latest would-be defender to join …
Leveraging Freedom Awards Around the World
As the Templeton Freedom Awards enter their third year, the innovative program is yielding dividends far greater than just rewarding effective work by think tanks worldwide. Winners and program administrators alike speak of strategically leveraging the Awards’ impact, especially in …
Switchgrass the ‘Oil’ of the Prairies
The reason for the buzz about switchgrass is it stores a tremendous amount of BTUs (British thermal units) to produce environmentally friendly heat from stoves and furnaces.
Roger Samson, REAP-Canada
Can we win environmentally and economically by using Prairie biomass as heating fuel? Roger Samson emphatically says, “Yes.”
Energy Farming—Manitoba’s Biofuels Future
The Prairies are ideally situated for an exciting new industry that makes ecological and economic sense.
Chief John Miswagon, Cross Lake First Nation
A Chief who runs an open, democratic administration talks about his band’s progressive policies.
A Government of our Own (Speech by Chief John Miswagon)
Chief John Miswagon of Cross Lake First Nation describes the innovative democratic process his people have devised.