Contemporary discourse is saturated with one word: “crisis”. It is applied to every problem we encounter. If you google the term, you will be informed that there is a mental health crisis, a climate crisis, an office vacancy crisis, a digital addicti...
I’m not a huge hockey fan. As a kid, I was a failure at both skating and skiing. I played some road hockey, then a little floor hockey in junior high. In the mid 70s, a friend took me to a couple of Leafs games since his father had seasons tickets, b...
Justin Trudeau on the Ropes: Governing in Troubled Times. Paul Wells. Sutherland House, 2024. Donovan Rating: Highly recommend It has been aptly remarked that a non-fiction book is an essay which has gone on too long. While I greatly enjoyed Samuel H...
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com). It is republished here with permission of the author. In an opinion piece post in the February 7th, 2024 issue of the W...
In the recent 2024 Federal Budget, the Liberal government opted to increase the taxes on capital gains. This has seen a lot of media coverage both in favour and opposed to this change, as well as some people questioning why capital gains get favourab...
Walking through the charming historic town of Ladysmith, I spied a pamphlet declaring that “Canadian pensions are too low!”. I was shocked to learn that the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP), Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), and Old Age Security (OAS) a...
Brampton, Ontario, is a particularly striking example of the demographic changes brought about by large-scale immigration to Canada in the past several decades. Once a quiet town with a strong English heritage (hence its name), it is now a bustling c...
I just got a 3-month free subscription to Apple TV after a few years away from having it. After watching the last season of Ted Lasso, the next thing I watched was Masters of the Air. It is the follow up series to “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific”...
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on April 30th, 2024. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. “There’s no place for the state in...
One of the most famous opening lines from a novel is from Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the...