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Happy Birthday Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
On January 11 a few Canadians on awakening will remember that it is Sir John A. Macdonald Day, as decreed by Parliament in an act of March 21, 2002. On that long-ago date Sir John was considered a Canadian hero, worthy of celebration and commemoration but now, of...
Frontier Live on X – Hopes and Fears in 2024 – with Leighton Grey and Peter Holle
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Leaders On The Frontier – Facts, Evidence and Ideologies – with Bryan Schwartz
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‘Leftugees’ Flee to Fertile Right-Wing Soil
The last 100 years have given ample proof that the further left a regime is, the more people want to leave it. Saskatchewan’s socialism sent private businesses and people scurrying to Alberta. The Berlin Wall was erected to keep Eastern Europeans from fleeing...
Past Pandemics Handled With Common Sense
Great events in history usually have one picture that manages to capture their essence. The iconic photo of the American troops planting the flag on Iwo Jima does it for WWII and the disturbing picture of the naked little girl running for her life from napalm,...
Frontier Invites You to Attend – A Citizen’s Hearing –Examining Canada’s COVID Response June 22-24
The response to Covid-19 has impacted Canadians in unimaginable ways. Many of us are questioning the actions taken over the past two years in the name of “science” that have resulted in social and economic losses, unanticipated health effects, lack of informed...
Sweden Did It Right – We Did It Wrong (Reprise)
The following article discusses Sweden’s successful policy of keeping schools open throughout the pandemic. Simply put, they resisted the huge pressure excerpted upon them from the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as virtually all of the leaders of the Western...
One Year Later Still no Evidence of Unmarked Graves
Brian Giesbrecht is a retired judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba, Nina Green is an independent researcher, and Tom Flanagan is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary. May 27, 2022 marked the one year anniversary of a...
No Evidence of Climate Crisis
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
It Is Time to Move On
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
Peckford: Canadian Democracy in Crisis
So, Who Thinks The Governments of Canada Want to Get to The Bottom Of The Necessity and Constitutionality of Their Covid Measures? That’s Why an Independent Citizen’s Inquiry is so Crucial Last fall I indicated that all the Premiers and the Prime Minister of Canada...
Etam: People, Vote for Better Energy Policy, Fast
If there’s any point to energy writing, it is to perhaps try to pull together disparate bits of information that the average citizen is too busy to notice, the sort of random and arcane stats and events that only genuine weirdos devote their spare hours to. Truffle...
Students Against Mandates: Response to Manning’s “Report of the COVID Commission”
Over the last two years, Canadians have been told to “trust the science” without raising a question. Despite reasonable concerns, the evidence from Pfizer’s and Moderna’s randomized controlled trials (RCT) showed that for every 103 deaths in the “vaccinated” group...
The GTA’s Housing Affordability Crisis: Inequality is the Issue
A poll by highly respected IPSOS, released by BILD-GTA shows a strong awareness of the GTA’s severely unaffordable housing. In the 15 years from 2004 to the last pre-pandemic year of 2019, the median detached house price rose more than 160% (inflation adjusted), about...