The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommended that all Canadian children learn about residential schools. This is part of Canada’s history, and is now taught in every classroom. However, there is reason to worry that a fair and balanced view is not being...
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Time’s up for Canada
Could Canada soon meet its end, given its many divides and increasing public debt? If Sir John Glubb is right, the answer is yes. His 1976 work, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival, found surprising commonalities in the rise and fall of 11 historic empires....
The Marxist Playbook Hasn’t Changed
“We will take America without firing a shot,” said Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of Soviet Russia from 1958 to 1964. The Soviet Union may have vanished, but old Marxist strategies are still being implemented. The 1969 lecture “More Deadly Than War: The Communist...
Precious Metals and Canada
The land of ice hockey, curling, maple syrup and Celine Dion is a nation overflowing with precious metals from coast to coast. Canadian provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan, known for their oil sands operations, have an abundance of lithium. Why is this important?...
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Bezmenov: USSR Then, China Now
If Canadians believe the threat of a Communist superpower expired decades ago, they’re wrong. The Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR) may be long dead, but the Chinese dragon is alive and well. In 1970, KGB disinformation agent Yuri Bezmenov defected from the...
Time for Public Sector Adjustment
Brian Pallister likely knows that his time as Premier of Manitoba, now still leading a solid majority government, is coming to an end. Fortunately for Pallister, his party and Manitoba, if he retires soon, by bringing in a new PC leader he could be remembered for...
A Lesson From Barack Obama
Extra pay for teachers who get results. Dumping bad teachers who never get better. Expansion of charter schools. A longer school day. This is not a review of George W. Bush's education policies. These are a few ideas from a recent speech by President Barack Obama. It...
Controlling Carbon a Bureaucrat’s Dream
“I hold little hope for accountability of those bureaucrats who have used their position to block the scientific method, disseminate bad information, and convince politicians to take wrong positions from which they produce wrong legislation. They will take their wonderful indexed pensions and walk out leaving the public to pick up the pieces and pay the bill.”
The Case For Affordable Housing In Regina
The Canadian Centre for Policy alternatives realizes some home truths about affordable housing: “[Inclusionary zoning] amounts to a narrowly focused tax that aims to serve a broad social function. The real estate industry has become a target because people view the lack of affordable housing as a real estate problem. However, experience in other jurisdictions suggests it is more of an income distribution and regulatory problem…. While attention is focused on distribution of the housing pie, the fundamental supply problems remain unsolved. A better approach is to enlarge the pie to be shared.”
Cap and Trade and Alternative Energy: The real danger in Obama’s policies
How President Obama’s plans will unnecessarily increase the cost of living and doing business while making US industry less competitive in world trade.
Thinking Before Spending Is Not “Ideology”
“Insofar as ideology goes, I agree: it has no place in public policy. And here’s an extra useful condition: ideology should be ignored not only in bad economic times but also when government coffers overflow. I’m all for doing what is sensible.”
A High-growth, Low-tax Welfare State
Over the years, the Orewa Rotary Club has hosted provocative speeches that have set the New Zealand political agenda for the coming year. In February 2009, MP, former Minister of Finance, and Frontier Centre Advisory Board member Sir Roger Douglas gave his assessment of recent economic conditions and what governments can and can’t do to deliver prosperity to their citizens.
Frances Widdowson, Co-Author of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry
Frontier interviews Frances Widdowson in a Conservation on the Frontier.
Rudd On A Dangerous, Ill-Informed Crusade
If Rudd is to be believed, all the present problems can be traced back to the “neo-liberal orthodoxy” that dominates economic policymaking. And the solution is a return to social democratic Keynesian policies that existed prior to the mid-70s.
Something Rotten in the State of Winnipeg Taxi Market
After the disappointment of the Winnipeg Taxi Study, Senior Policy Analyst David Seymour takes a more imaginative look at the results of taxi deregulation in other countries.