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Rodney A. Clifton
Rodney A. Clifton is a professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
What Is Carney Going to Do With the Foreign Aid File?
Commentary The federal election is over, and within a few months there should be a budget tabled and ...
Viewpoints
June 9, 2025
It’s Time to Return to the Principle of ‘Trust but Verify’
Commentary Do we know the best way to decide if specific empirical claims are true? Of course we ...
Viewpoints
April 12, 2025
Returning to Reciprocity Is the Only Way Forward for Canada
Commentary What is the difference between the treaties that indigenous people signed and the Calls to Action in ...
Viewpoints
January 11, 2025
Book Excerpt: ‘From Truth Comes Reconciliation’
The following is an excerpt from the second edition of “From Truth Comes Reconciliation: An Assessment of the ...
Viewpoints
November 28, 2024
Improving the Prosperity of First Nations: Lessons From Two Nobel Laureates in Economics
Commentary Here is a question that many Western Canadians, especially those living in rural areas, could answer. “If ...
Viewpoints
November 23, 2024
The Care Home Dilemma
Commentary Canada’s rapidly changing demography is daunting. The number of people over 65 increased from 3,888,550 in 2001 ...
Viewpoints
June 8, 2024
We Shouldn’t Be Surprised That the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Recommendations Haven’t Been Implemented
Commentary The Yellowhead Institute, an indigenous think tank at Toronto Metropolitan University, has given up on monitoring the ...
Viewpoints
January 13, 2024
Rodney Clifton: What’s the Solution to the Cultural War in Schools?
Commentary The cultural war has been in full bloom in U.S. education for at least five years. Now ...
Viewpoints
August 23, 2023
Rodney Clifton: Can We at Least Debate the Claim That Children Were Buried in Residential School Yards?
Commentary On Jan. 31, Dr. Michael Mahon, president of the University of Lethbridge, cancelled a talk that Dr. ...
Viewpoints
March 9, 2023
Why Is Nothing Being Done About the Claim That Children Were Murdered in Canada’s Residential Schools?
Commentary Over the last two years, innumerable news reports have been published about missing children and mass or ...
Viewpoints
September 29, 2022
Fake News: The Case for Scrutinizing Government Reports and Articles About Them
Commentary Before U.S. President Donald Trump left office, the “fake news” allegation was frequently heard in news reports ...
Viewpoints
March 20, 2022
Sleeping Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
Commentary Everyone knows that Canada is in trouble. Like other countries, this country has been racked by various ...
Canada
January 17, 2022
What’s in a Name? Addressing the Charge of ‘Cultural Genocide’
Commentary The first couple of sentences in the final Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) report contain ...
Viewpoints
September 24, 2021
Social Darwinism and ‘Playing the Race Card’
Commentary A lot of the racist policies and sentiment in the West in the late 18th and early ...
Viewpoints
August 4, 2021
Unmarked Residential School Graves: Pursuing the Truth Is of Utmost Importance
Commentary Over the last two months or so, popular newspapers in Canada and around the world have been ...
Viewpoints
July 25, 2021
University Recruitment Should Be Based on Merit
Commentary Up until now, the University of British Columbia has been a first-rate research and teaching university, not ...
Viewpoints
December 8, 2020
‘Scholar Strike’ at Canadian Universities Stole Students’ Valuable Class Time
Commentary Canadian universities had been shut down since March because of the COVID-19 virus. Yet, during the first ...
Viewpoints
September 19, 2020
First They Came for the Statues. Will Museums Be Next?
Commentary First the radicals came for the statues, and some have already been taken down. That was easy ...
Viewpoints
August 17, 2020
The Value of a Queuing-Up Strategy as Canada Reopens
Commentary No doubt many senior citizens will remember drinking from school water fountains long before students carried water ...
Viewpoints
May 26, 2020
During the Pandemic, Can Parents Do an Adequate Job of Homeschooling Their Children?
Commentary Canadian students have been out of school for more than a month because of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Viewpoints
May 1, 2020
The Marxists Are Winning the Education War
Commentary For the last 60 years or so, a raging storm of controversy has hung over public education ...
Viewpoints
April 9, 2020
Canada Has Weathered Other Epidemics, and Will Pull Through This One Too
Commentary The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, is causing panic across the country. ...
Viewpoints
March 22, 2020
An Uprising in Canada? What a Pity
Commentary Ten years ago, Douglas Bland, a retired lieutenant-colonel from the Canadian Armed Forces and former chair of ...
Viewpoints
February 15, 2020
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