While there are malevolent outside actors doing what they can with universities, the influential corruption is internal.
ESG & DEI
Evil Prevails When Good People Do Nothing: Why a Pro-Life Group Is Petitioning for Representative Democracy
Earlier this year a Canadian pro-life organization launched an online petition calling for the resignation of eight school trustees in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Campaign Life Coalition contends that trustees of the Louis Riel School Division (LRSD) “undid the results of a...
School Boards Must Stop Hiding Behind Their Communications Officers
Earlier this month, a social media post from the Waterloo Regional District School Board (WRDSB) about the inclusion of Indigenous content in its English curriculum ended with the following line: “This post was created with the assistance of #AI, but is made better by...
What Lies Behind Student Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel, and Anti-Semitic Uprisings?
The sudden uprising of university students across North America in support of Hamas and allegedly about the welfare of Palestinians does not result, for most students, from close ties with people on the other side of the world. Of course, there is in North America a...
Frontier Live On X – We Can’t Ignore This Any Longer – With Joseph Quesnel
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Canada’s Eco-Extremism Threat Is Flying Under The Radar
The dangerous rise in eco-extremism in Canada is fueled by identity politics and exaggerated climate anxieties
Etam: Energy Wise, How Do You Even Describe 2024
Huh. Look at that. It’s been ten years since I started writing about energy. Not that that particular trivia interests anyone, why would it, however it is interesting to look back at the impetus for writing and how that has changed. Ten years ago, as I worked in a...
The Post-National Cult of Diversity Promotes Authoritarian Intolerance
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. ... Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state.” — Justin Trudeau, 2015. Throughout history, populations with sufficient historical, geographic, linguistic, economic, religious, and cultural...
A Teacher Who Won’t Salute
My Warholian fifteen minutes of fame came not from a father (Roy) who helped hammer out over glasses of Scotch the “Kitchen Cabinet” compromise that saved the patriation of Canada’s Constitution Act (1982) or a great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Waters, an early...
Canada’s 50-30 Cultural Marxist Challenge
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...
From a US President to a Local School Trustee: No One is Safe in an Era of Kafkaesque Absurdity
A hundred years after Kafka’s “The Trial” was first published, the West has descended into an era in which absurd allegations are the new normal.
Graham Lane: ESG Doctrine and Why It Should not be Adopted in Professional Organizations – A Letter to CPA Manitoba
The following introductory comments by Ian Madsen, Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Centre for Public Policy provide background on Graham Lane whose attached letter to CPA Manitoba strongly criticizes that organization’s embrace of ESG. Graham Lane is a retired CA and...
Lists To Make the Woke Broke
Do you want to place your money and vote away from the woke? The tools to help you choose have finally arrived. The 1792 Exchange examined 2000 corporations for their “wokeness.” The public policy non-profit’s website defines “woke” corporations as those that “use...