Last year, I wrote a feature titled “From Western Traditions to Political Indoctrination: A Cultural History of Education.” The six-part series covered developments in North American education from faith-based 17th-century schoolhouses to the woke indoctrination mills...
The fight for equality has morphed into equity, and with it a quest to empower minorities over all considerations–including merit. In other words, increasingly people are being hired and promoted on the basis of the colour of their skin and not the content of their...
In February 2022, I attended the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and struck up a conversation with a hunting guide from Newfoundland. We talked about guided trips to hunt moose and caribou and about how much of a haul it is to get from...
Alberta is trying a different approach, one focused on helping addicts to get off drugs. The early results seem promising.
In recent days, reports, studies and analyses have implicitly shown that the essential character of state-owned enterprises, including Canadian Crown corporations, makes it impossible for these entities to have true independence of mission, strategy, governance or...
A month ago, the Chronicle Herald published an article in which I argued that the Atlantic Canada economy is unsustainable and that the region has become a major burden on Canada. The starkest evidence of that is that other Canadians are obliged to contribute $6,400...
It is a relief that the U.S. Federal Reserve Board is not veering off into climate theology or other mission-irrelevant distractions. While recent comments of the Fed’s chair, Jerome Powell, were unequivocal, comments from the Bank of Canada have not been as...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s proposal to use private health centres to alleviate long wait lists has run into opposition from many quarters. It may seem counterintuitive, but Mr. Ford’s plan will actually alleviate the shortages of doctors and nurses. It was B.C.’s NDP...
The influence of traditional print and broadcast news media has dropped dramatically. Even with handsome government handouts, many of them are barely alive today. In the market transition that is taking place, out of the slump of the old media a few new ones, such as...
Winnipeg, January 19th, 2023 President Peter Holle issued a statement today that the Frontier Centre for Public Policy is considering legal action against certain members of the media and others for deliberately misrepresenting the Centre's mission as "racist",...
Proponents of evermore expensive government social programs often point to other nations, usually in Scandinavia, as places Canada should emulate. These advocates call those nations, erroneously, Socialist or Social Democratic. However, they are not. It is important...
Contrary to the popular narratives that the planet is at risk from “climate change”, that carbon dioxide is pollution and that climate science is settled and confirms the need for drastic measures to save us all from a warming planet; there, in fact continues to be a...
Part Three of a Four Part Series In December 2008, Denis Rancourt was suspended from his tenured professorship in physics at the University of Ottawa—an action that resulted in his termination a few months later. This occurred after a five-year battle with university...
Happy New Year all, though 2023 is well underway. Type A’s have buttoned down 2023’s goals and are doubtlessly already pursuing them with a vengeance. (Us) Type B’s are now wandering aimlessly around gyms, rationalizing abandoned resolutions, and annoying the regulars...
Settling the Climate Narrative with a Red Team/Blue Team Exercise Contrary to the popular narratives that the planet is at risk from “climate change”, that carbon dioxide is pollution and that climate science is settled and confirms the need for drastic measures to...