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Brian Giesbrecht
Brian Giesbrecht is a retired judge and a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Arctic Defence: The Growing Geopolitical Battle for the North
Commentary The Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) runs north of the Arctic Circle from Alaska in the ...
Viewpoints
February 18, 2025
Brian Giesbrecht: Canada’s Fentanyl Wake-Up Call
Commentary It took the threat of U.S. tariffs for Canada to wake up to the true horrors of ...
Viewpoints
February 7, 2025
Brian Giesbrecht: The Importance of Positive Role Models
Commentary Winnipeg is being hit with an epidemic of shoplifting that appears to be out of control. Thieves ...
Viewpoints
June 11, 2024
It’s Time for Struggling Remote First Nations to Opt for the ‘Smallwood Solution’
Commentary A whopping $875,000 for every indigenous man, woman and child living in a rural First Nations community. ...
Viewpoints
April 14, 2024
Release the Hostages Now
Commentary Israel pulled all but one of their brigades out of the southern Rafah portion of Gaza in ...
Viewpoints
April 10, 2024
Moscow Attack Highlights the Need for Secure Borders
Commentary The shocking terrorist attack that took place on March 22 near Moscow is still reverberating around the ...
Viewpoints
March 27, 2024
Canada’s Ceasefire Motion Is Much Ado About Nothing
Commentary Canada was thoroughly embarrassed last fall when a former Nazi was applauded in Parliament. So why are ...
Viewpoints
March 23, 2024
The RCMP Fails Canadians—Again
Commentary The RCMP’s official motto is “Maintiens le Droit” or “Maintain the Right.” However, the common belief was ...
Viewpoints
March 13, 2024
Wokeism vs. Classical Liberal Truth-Based Order at the Root of Online Harms Bill Debate
Commentary Wokeism versus the classical liberal truth-based order is what the discussion on the Online Harms Bill, C-63, ...
Viewpoints
March 6, 2024
Brian Giesbrecht: Land, Resource Transfer to Nunavut Not a Wise Move
Commentary The best laid plans of mice men often go awry. — Robbie Burns Hopes are high as ...
Viewpoints
January 30, 2024
Brian Giesbrecht: Canada’s Indigenous Model Is Unsustainable
Commentary Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux recently pointed out the significant rise in Canada’s contingent liabilities related to indigenous ...
Viewpoints
December 20, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Should Canada Hold an Indigenous Referendum?
Commentary Canada, United States, Australia, and New Zealand all share one important historical feature: Indigenous peoples were already ...
Viewpoints
December 1, 2023
Remembrance Day: Rebuilding Canada’s Military
Commentary In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row, ... If ye break faith ...
Viewpoints
November 9, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: How the National Reconciliation Day Should Be Marked This Year
Commentary Sept. 30 will be Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. But this year, it should be ...
Viewpoints
September 26, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: What NB’s Premier Is Saying With His Motion on Land Claims
Commentary New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is essentially saying “We don’t trust you” in the motion he introduced ...
Viewpoints
September 20, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Politicizing the Judiciary
Commentary Israel is currently locked in an intense struggle between conservatives and progressives over the Netanyahu government’s judicial ...
Viewpoints
August 26, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Our Children Are Being Misinformed
Commentary I regularly drive by an elementary school. Like many Canadian schools its fence is festooned with 215 ...
Viewpoints
August 6, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Meritocracy or Mediocrity—Canada Must Choose
Commentary In “Civilization: The West and the Rest” historian Niall Ferguson asks why, from about 1500 AD, the ...
Viewpoints
July 18, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: The RCMP Failed Canadians at Kamloops
Commentary The RCMP has a long and honourable history, and has served Canadians well. RCMP top brass and ...
Viewpoints
July 7, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Canada’s ‘Acceptable Views’ Internet
Commentary The CRTC is best known as the Canadian content regulator. For the last half-century or so it ...
Viewpoints
May 9, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Drag Queen Shows Are Not for Children
Commentary Harris Glenn Milstead (1945-1988) known by his stage name, Divine, was a famous American drag queen. Milstead ...
Viewpoints
April 18, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Weaponizing the Law
Commentary The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the ...
Viewpoints
April 11, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Commentary Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is ...
Viewpoints
April 4, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Russia’s Nervous Neighbours
Commentary We don’t know how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will end, but whatever the outcome, the world will ...
Viewpoints
March 31, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Xi’s ‘Clark Kent’ Moment
Commentary Xi Jinping recently had his “Clark Kent” moment. Kent was Superman. He would rip off his workaday ...
Viewpoints
March 24, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Bishop Grandin Played an Honourable Part in Manitoba’s History and Shouldn’t Be ‘Cancelled’
Commentary Winnipeg is close to saying goodbye to Bishop Grandin. Soon, the streets, and anything else that bears ...
Viewpoints
March 21, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht: Most Canadians Don’t Think Canada Is a ‘Post-National State’
Commentary When newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a bewildered Canada in 2015 that the country was ...
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March 9, 2023
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