Marshall McLuhan foresaw our digital disorder. Reviewing Grant Havers’ new book, Barry Cooper reminds us how media shape perception before judgment, eroding debate, education, and civic life unless Canadians confront the environments they inhabit. Read more at https://frontiercentre.org/

Ottawa's gun buyback is political, says Prof. Pierre Gilbert. In 4 min, he breaks down public safety claims, the $6B cost projection, provincial resistance, the impact on law‑abiding gun owners, and risks to property rights and the rule of law. https://youtu.be/0_-Evv2c2qk #firearms #cdnpoli

Frontier Centre for Public Policy Fellow Jay Goldberg argues that Mark Carney’s GST credit tweak won’t cut it. With millions excluded and costs soaring, real relief means slashing income taxes and raising the basic personal amount. Bold action is needed, not bureaucratic crumbs.

Research has solid suggestions for #teachers in complex classrooms. Direct whole-class instruction, arranging desks in rows facing the front, discerning which assignments need marking, and setting #discipline expectations at the start of the year can all help. #Principals need to back teachers!

While previously law-abiding gun owners face lengthy prison terms for not complying with ineffective programs that won’t make Canadians safer, violent repeat offenders keep getting released on bail, exposing a glaring and unjust double standard. Read more at https://f.mtr.cool/ywrjoekjef

If Canadian health care was a market for entrepreneurs to meet instead of an expense for governments to try to minimize, lineups for care would shrink dramatically. European countries have a far better mix of private and public care. Why not Canada? #healthcare #cdnpoli

Is green steel about as good an option as green cheese? Professor and Frontier Senior Fellow Joseph Fournier thinks so. Apart from its economic impracticalities, the process involved would make us more dependent on China and Russia. #Steel #GreenSteel #Decarbonization

The US National Security Strategy represents a shift from globalism to an “America First” approach. This 60-second YouTube Short highlights its core principles and says Canada needs a guiding strategy of its own. #NSS2025 #Trump #NationalSecurity #AmericaFirst #ForeignPolicy #Shorts

A government twice found by the courts to have illegally invoked the #EmergenciesAct is now asking Parliament for sweeping new powers under Bill C-15. This video—narrated by Frontier Vice President of Research and Policy Marco Navarro-Genie — explains. https://youtu.be/BUjB1nzSOZk #cdnpoli

Marco Navarro-Genie argues Ottawa props up supply management that inflates food prices, then borrows billions for grocery rebates. Parliament keeps groceries costly, deficits rising, and families paying three times through checkout, debt, and inflation nationwide. https://frontiercentre.org/

Without supply management, Canadian groceries would have been more affordable without the recently announced GST credit boost. It's misguided policy all around, argues #FrontierCentre VP of Research and Policy Marco Navarro-Genie. https://youtu.be/2Sfn1rj2LIg #CDNpoli #SupplyManagement

In collective bargaining, the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation pushed for solutions to classroom complexity. Now, the provincial government must put $20 million per year into a class complexity fund for small schools. Schools with more than 150 must hire a special teacher. #skpoli #education

Ontario education minister Paul Calandra’s recently visited Michaela Community School, called "Britain's strictest" by some. The lessons for education are clear: discipline, knowledge-rich curriculum, whole-class teaching, and school choice. #ONpoli #cdnpoli #education

Canada’s Supreme Court stunned many when it struck down one-year mandatory minimums for accessing or possessing child sexual abuse materials as “cruel and unusual.” But their rationale was based on a hypothetical scenario quite different from the cases before them. #SCC #legalreform

Senior Fellow Joseph Fournier argues Canada’s future lies beyond big cities. A rural revival is underway, powered by affordability, trades and AI disruptions. Sovereignty, productivity and well-being now depend on embracing life beyond the urban core.

Migration trends, AI’s labor shift, supply-chain vulnerability reveal a rural resurgence in Canada. Rebuilding trades and domestic industry are central to Canada’s future security and prosperity, as this 5-minute video explains. https://youtu.be/vvhT4LrogyY #cdnpoli #ruralCanada #FrontierCentre

President Trump wants oil at $50 / barrel. That price would cause a roughly $15 billion hole in Alberta's annual budget that would be hard to fill. #ABpoli #Trump #oil

Allegations of deep Chinese interference in key Canadian institutions, including elections, and slow federal action raise urgent questions about national security, democratic integrity and government accountability.  Take our poll on foreign interference at https://f.mtr.cool/utqwthnoot

Lee Harding shares that Alberta students continue to lead Canada in tests and score well internationally. One reason is its openness to facilitating educational choice. https://f.mtr.cool/fyhdzvicsj

The new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit (formerly GST credit) offers a one-time top-up and a 25% boost for five years—but many modest-income families won’t qualify. Exempting the first $25,000 of income would be better. #CanadaGroceriesBenefit #GSTCredit #CostOfLiving #TaxRelief #Groceries

Marco Navarro-Genie argues Alberta dodged economic self-sabotage by killing Bill 201. Repeating the Notley-era wage hikes would have priced young workers out of jobs, shuttered more businesses, and hiked costs—all under the guise of fairness. https://f.mtr.cool/wjctfayyrs

Senior fellow Gerry Bowler does not buy Prime Minister Mark Carney’s middle-power plea. Canada isn’t punching below its weight. It’s unfit to enter the ring, a self-sidelined country coasting on moral pretence and past glory. https://f.mtr.cool/bmlpqptltc

Frontier Centre president David Leis offers a sharp analysis of how the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro reshapes hemispheric geopolitics and forces a Canada energy reality check. https://youtu.be/qlaB4txmieg #cdnpoli #energy #Venezuela #Canada

75% of Canadian exports go to the United States, so we all should care if our Prime Minister has talked to Donald Trump lately. It could hurt Canada if Trump doesn't need CUSMA. https://fcpp.org/the-cost-of-discount-oil-and-gas/

Marco Navarro‑Genie explains how Sweden tightened #immigration, citizenship, and law‑enforcement rules after rising violence, and why Canada’s housing, #opioid crisis, and integration capacity risk eroding social cohesion and #sovereignty. #cdnpoli

As Ottawa eyes agriculture in its methane crackdown, the real question looms: will farmers pay for emissions nature produces in greater volume? This sharp commentary from Senior Fellow Joseph Fournier warns of misguided regulations and costly consequences.

Everybody uses energy. When energy gets hammered, we all get hammered. https://fcpp.org/the-cost-of-discount-oil-and-gas/

David Leis warns Canada not to shrug off Venezuela’s unraveling. Washington’s decisive pivot signals a new geopolitical era—and Ottawa’s complacency on energy, foreign policy and strategy leaves us dangerously exposed.

How long does Canada have before Venezuelan oil replaces Canadian oil? https://fcpp.org/the-cost-of-discount-oil-and-gas/

David Redman warns that Canada is ignoring a blunt message. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is about action, not talk. Continued complacency risks making Canada irrelevant—or worse.

This country surely could be the richest, freest nation in the world. Our ace card is natural resources.  Government policy seems to be the only block.  Learn how much we lose on oil and gas at https://fcpp.org/the-cost-of-discount-oil-and-gas/

Argentina lifted rent controls. Six months later, supply had grown by 184% and rental prices had dropped 40%. BC, Manitoba, and Ontario still have rent controls and could learn from this example. #Argentina #BCpoli #MBpoli #ONpoli

Conrad Eder supports universal health care, but not Canada’s broken version. Despite massive spending, Canadians face brutal wait times. He argues it’s time to allow private options, as other countries do, without abandoning universality.

#Minimumwage hikes cost jobs—especially for young workers. That's why Alberta's Bill 201, introduced as a private member's bill by an #NDP MLA, was voted down by #UCP MLAs. Frontier Centre VP of research Marco Navarro-Genie explains. https://youtu.be/v0vyGvnJMto #ABpoli

Marco Navarro-Genie argues Sweden reversed course on immigration to restore order. Canada faces similar stress but refuses reform, trapped by political cowardice. Sovereignty, he warns, requires social cohesion—not moral posturing.

Vice-president of research Marco Navarro-Genie argues Canada’s rent control obsession is fuelling its housing crisis. Argentina scrapped controls, tripled listings, and slashed real rents by 40 per cent. Supply wins. Regulation doesn’t. Will Canada finally face that truth?

Will Alberta receive 170k signatures on the Citizen's Initiative Petition? If the signatures are received, the question will be asked of voters to see if they agree to cease to be a part of Canada to become an Independent state.

Senior Fellows Rodney Clifton and Pierre Gilbert reveal a crisis in Winnipeg’s North End, where chronic absenteeism (up to 70%) threatens children’s futures. Volunteers step up while the government's silence and flawed school funding let failure fester.

Anecdotes from #Regina demonstrate how passing students automatically sets them up for failure in later learning and life. Please like, share, and subscribe. #NoFailPolicy #Education #ReginaPublicSchools #StudentOutcomes #LearningLoss #YQR

The Ontario Minister of Education stops a London school from culling classical books like To Kill a Mockingbird.  Citizen's voices matter.

Senior Fellow Michael Zwaagstra argues that classroom complexity can’t be fixed by hiring more teachers alone. Stronger discipline, better instructional methods, and real principal support matter more than just throwing money at the problem.

Should other provinces adopt similar models to Alberta's publicly funded and independently operated charter schools?

Brian Giesbrecht warns: 2026, the Chinese Year of the Fire Horse, is exploding with regime collapse, U.S. military muscle, and geopolitical realignment—from Maduro’s takedown to the mullahs’ unravelling and China’s retreat.

Jay Goldberg says the NDP’s push to regain official party status despite winning just 7 seats ignores democratic outcomes. Canada’s rules are already generous. Changing them after the election would reward failure and waste taxpayer money.

Fellow Jay Goldberg argues Canadians aren’t fooled: 85 percent know industrial carbon taxes raise their costs. As Prime Minister Carney pushes hidden hikes, businesses flee south and life in Canada gets harder, not greener.

Are you confident that our major public systems are meeting the long-term needs of families, children, and youth? Let us know in the comments or by visiting frontiercentre.org

Canada could learn from Argentina. After Javier Milei's government repealed rent control, the country's rental prices went down 40% in real terms, while new supply flooded the market. BC, Manitoba, and Ontario still have #rentcontrol.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX02dqTUQh0 #cdnpoli #ONpoli

Frontier's vice-president research Marco Navarro-Genie argues that Canada’s homelessness crisis has intensified dramatically, with about 60,000 people homeless this past Christmas and chronic homelessness becoming entrenched as shelters overflow and encampments spread.

Lee Harding warns Canada is drifting from the values that once drew immigrants, family, faith and opportunity, but like Scrooge, we still have time to change course and reclaim what made this country special.

The removal of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela marks a geopolitical shift, one Canada is poorly positioned to respond to.  When more Venezuelan oil enters the market, Canadian producers could face deeper discounts on oil exports to the states. Canada needs more #pipelines to tidewater.