Other Voices

LOOKING BACK – Don’t judge historic figures without knowing our history

February 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

By MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA Senior Fellow Frontier Centre for Public Policy LAST FALL, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario demanded that Sir John A. Macdonald’s name [Continue]

OLYMPICS – The western media’s appalling embrace of North Korea

February 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE GOVERNMENT of Kim Jong-un is one of the world’s most repressive, holding North Korea’s 25 million people in a virtual slave state. A third or more of North Koreans [Continue]

JUSTICE – Crossing the hard line between the judiciary and politics

February 17, 2018 // 2 Comments

By BRIAN GIESBRECHT Frontier Centre for Public Policy THE JURY TRIAL of Gerald Stanley for the murder of Colten Boushie marks a new development in criminal law. The trial [Continue]

FOOD – Grocery stores bulk up on ultra-processed foods that don’t nourish us

February 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

Far too many products in Canada’s stores give us lots of calories but little nutrition. And we have dangerously abandoned cooking and meal-time routines By JEAN-CLAUDE [Continue]

SUZUKI – More action needed to ensure safe water for First Nations

February 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

ALL NINE COMMUNITY water systems on Lytton First Nation land in B.C. have been under boil water advisories at one time or another. Now the First Nation is taking an [Continue]

ENVIRONMENT – The plastic bag ban bandwagon is way off course

February 13, 2018 // 3 Comments

By LEE HARDING Research Associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy THE FISH in the movie Finding Nemo had made their great escape. After a far-fetched plan and an unlikely [Continue]