Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com), which I encourage readers to check out. It is republished here, in a slightly abridged format, with permission of the au...
In 1965 Canada adopted our current flag, and I really have no complaints about it. It’s iconic, distinctly Canadian, and even gave the world a new term in vexillology, the “Canadian Pale”. The only issue I have with the flag is that it came into exis...
“Indeed almost no Canadian surveyed feels that there are too few immigrants.” (page 2 of the Association For Canadian Studies poll analysis) Another day, another immigration poll. A new survey, conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Stud...
“War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” Those are the words written on the Ministry of Truth building against the skyline of Airstrip One in Orwell’s novel 1984. In Ottawa, it seems that a new addition has been made to the fictiona...
The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets And Harm Canadians. Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar. Sutherland House, 2024. “If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade” – U.S. Senator John Sherman, responsible for the...
The Quebec government’s recent tabling of a bill to give itself the power to limit the number of international students in the province has received considerable media coverage. However, another significant development in Quebec’s immigration policy...
The Ontario I grew up in was governed by what was called the “Big Blue Machine”, the nickname for the Progressive Conservative Party that governed the province for 42 years from 1943-1985. Premiers Drew, Frost, Robarts, and Davis provided forward-thi...
The Trudeau government has introduced a new work permit for foreign workers with a job offer at one of eight firms in the Global Hypergrowth Project – a government project aimed at supporting the growth of a selection of homegrown Canadian companies....
Housing, housing, housing. It’s constantly in the news, and with good reason – finding a place to live has become an all-consuming worry for many Canadians. Pundits and mainstream media columnists have created a veritable cottage industry out of conc...
While in undergrad, I selected a class called “Social And Political Thought”. I imagined that we might read Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Machiavelli. Instead, students were administered a dizzying dose of critical race theory and soci...