Reading Time: 3 minutes The simple solution to overcrowding in our hospitals is to allow Canadians to purchase health insurance that covers medically-necessary care
Author: Frontier Centre for Public Policy
The double standards of the Boushie/Stanley case
Reading Time: 4 minutes The PM seems committed to adding to the differences between Indigenous people and the mainstream, instead of trying to dismantle a divisive system
Time to get serious about water quality in First Nation communities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Solving this seemingly intractable problem should be quite simple, but simply increasing funding will only make the problems worse
Polar opposites: where’s the middle ground in politics?
Reading Time: 5 minutes By better understanding how various political factions differ, perhaps we can help close some fundamental gaps in society
Ontario politicians addicted to ill-fated pharmacare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Free prescription drugs skew people away from healthy lifestyles and spread the financial burden to taxpayers who don’t qualify for the drug plans
One big asteroid could ruin the mining industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The space race is on and the payoff is an untold cache of precious metals, large enough to completely dwarf the world’s biggest mining companies
Indigenous middle class key to closing tragic cultural chasm
Reading Time: 3 minutes The large and growing Indigenous middle class has shown us the way, by successfully integrating without any loss of their Indigenous culture and identity
China’s foreign garbage ban reveals recycling’s weakness
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recycling seems like a neat solution until we can’t dump our garbage on another country and have to deal with it ourselves
Trial by tweet: heads drop in the basket without trial
Reading Time: 3 minutes The #MeToo movement has ushered in a revolution that discards hard-won concepts like the presumption of innocence and due process
Don’t judge historic figures without knowledge of our history
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian curriculums fail students when it comes to teaching the content necessary to have informed, intelligent debate