Research Director, Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy
Joined January 2014
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David Hunt retweeted
Do independent schools cost taxpayers more?
The data says no. They save Albertans thousands per student. đź’ˇ
Free thinking starts with the facts.
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David Hunt retweeted
Feb 18
There's been a lot of anti-reality opinion about independent schools in Alberta (and everywhere else for that matter). Reality check: They save money and they keep diverse options open for how your kids learn. A new study from our research director, @DavidHunt_
Do independent schools cost taxpayers more?
The data says no. They save Albertans thousands per student. đź’ˇ
Free thinking starts with the facts.
aristotlefoundation.org/stud…
#PublicPolicy #Education
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Feb 18
New study out today runs the numbers on the fiscal impact of independent schools & home education programs in Alberta. Bottomline: saves taxpayers billions, while providing much-needed services.
@AristotleFdn @AlbertaEd @AISCA_AB @ABParentsUnion
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Feb 18
"Even if you believed the union's nonsense about 'taking resources,' you physically cannot eliminate independent school funding in the short or medium term.
Why? The hard mathematics of school capacity."
westernstandard.news/opinion… @AristotleFdn
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Thanks for having me on @eric_wearne!
Feb 4
New episode is up with David Hunt. On hybrid and microschools in…Canada.
open.spotify.com/show/5JySrx…
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28 Jul 2025
Looking forward to debating well-known physicist @LKrauss1 at the Grand Theatre, Calgary, September 25, hosted by @AristotleFdn .
“Be it resolved: Young Canadians under 30 should leave Canada.”
I will be arguing in favour of the motion.Get your tickets!
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14 Mar 2025
Our 3rd book is out! And it's trending #1 in its three categories.
With a foreword by PM Jean Chrétien, author Bob Plamondon gives fresh insights from unpublished archival material that's even more relevant than we could've imagined when research began.
a.co/d/2puW6Cd
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28 Nov 2024
YouTube has blocked us from advertising this video, on the grounds that supporting Israel "incites hate".
You be the judge: Is this inciting people to hate or to... think?
Do you remember when anti-Western radicals in Vancouver recently chanted, “Death to Canada, death to the United States, death to Israel!”?
Those attacking Israel from Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran also have a frightening number of supporters in our country.
Watch our video on why Canadians should support Israel:
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3 Nov 2024
"Affirmative action discrimination and other forms of racial preference are pervasive in Canada’s public institutions." The @AristotleFdn 's @matlau10 on the illiberal, discriminatory nature of DEI. Affirmative action discrimination and other forms of racial preference are pervasive in Canada’s public institutions. nationalpost.com/opinion/evi…
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29 Oct 2024
If you're wondering why Canadians don't trust things like they used to, I may remind you of that time we were plunged into national mourning by an inaccurate ground-penetrating radar survey, and that people want you in jail for mentioning as much. nationalpost.com/opinion/jam…
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24 Oct 2024
Over 890 medals, across 29 sports, stolen from women by men.
24 Oct 2024
The HUGE number of medals female athletes have lost to trans opponents allowed to compete against them is revealed in UN report highlighting women's 'loss of fair opportunity' trib.al/AMty6qW
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19 Oct 2024
How Canada came to replace equality before the law with illiberal, reverse discrimination, i.e., "equity". Queen's law professor and @AristotleFdn Senior Fellow @PardyBruce in a column based on his new Aristotle Foundation study. nationalpost.com/opinion/bru…
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While Canada's constitution hasn't changed for more than 40 years, the way it has been applied by our highest court has. Even the equality provision meant to treat Canadians equally has been reinterpreted to mean “equity”. aristotlefoundation.org/real…
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In Canada, even a clear Charter provision about legal equality of the individual (Section 15 (1)) has been converted into its opposite, into an “equity” provision. This is in addition to Section 15(2) which already allowed for illiberal and unequal treatment of the individual.
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David Hunt retweeted
9 Oct 2024
My latest for @nationalpost and probably the most research-intensive story I've written since joining the news team: nationalpost.com/news/canada…
There are a few points worth highlighting here, so let's get into it 🧵
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David Hunt retweeted
It's easy to find someone or something to blame for our problems, and as the French Revolutionaries did, try starting with a blank slate. But people should recognize why our institutions exist and how they got there before becoming too eager to pull them down.
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David Hunt retweeted
3 Oct 2024
Stop criminalizing dissent. My newest column in the @nationalpost . nationalpost.com/opinion/cri…
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Sir John A Macdonald saved more indigenous lives than any other Prime Minister. Watch the Aristotle Foundation's Greg Piasetzki explain why:
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3 Sep 2024
.@DouglasKMurray: “If you protest for Palestinians, but didn't protest for the real genocide in Sudan 🇸🇩, or didn't protest when Assad in Syria 🇸🇾 killed in a decade 6 times the number of people killed in all wars of Israel and its enemies during 75 years, you are an antisemite.”
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David Hunt retweeted
Canadian governments began to seriously tackle “systemic” discrimination in the 1940s and 50s and the process was mostly complete by the 1960s. Read the latest @AristotleFdn column, from @DavidHunt_
and @RandellDCC, who highlight findings from our latest study:
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