Thursday September 19, 2019 at 7:00pm McNally Robinson Bookstore Grant Park Mall, Winnipeg, MB
New Book Coming Soon … Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation
– New Book Release July 2019 – Since Indigenous Affairs (IA) became a stand-alone Canadian government department in 1966, it has mushroomed into a federal department unlike any other. IA has jurisdictional reach over 90 percent of Canada’s land mass, authorities …
Coming Soon … Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation
Sheilla Jones is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, leading the Treaty Annuity/Individual Empowerment Initiative. She is an award-winning Canadian journalist, former CBC news editor, and author of several books on cosmology and quantum physics, her …
Frontier Centre for Public Policy Intern wins National Award
Together with 35 other students from across Canada, predominantly doctoral and post-doctoral students, Masha Krylova, a M.A. student from the University of Manitoba, has been selected to take part in the innovative training program, the Summer Program in Aging (SPA). …
On Today’s Tragedy in Connecticut
Today’s tragedy in Connecticut was horrific. But let’s take a moment to reflect. Peaceful human civilization is improbable, miraculous, and wonderful. The fact that a society has emerged in which most people can safely walk down the streets is utterly astonishing.
Media Release – Income Support Reform that Makes Sense: Poverty, Welfare, and the Future of Income Support
Based on a structural and historical analysis of Canada’s welfare system, this policy paper argues that welfare has helped create and maintain a chronically workless underclass that persists regardless of economic or labour market conditions instead of helping welfare recipients.
Frontier Expert Advisory Panel Member Passes Away
One of the most brilliant minds on urban land use planning policy, Owen McShane, has passed away. The Frontier Centre was fortunate to have him on its Expert Advisory Panel since its start in the late 1990s. Owen was a …
Owen McShane, Champion of Free Enterprise, Dies
NBR Straight Thinking columnist, venture capitalist and planning consultant Owen McShane has died, aged 70. Owen had been on the Frontier Centre’s Expert Advisory Panel since 1999.
The Silliest Policy we Have
Why free public wireless Internet is the silliest policy we have.