The mission of universities has always been the passing on and expansion of human knowledge, which has made universities contribute much to the historic growth in Canadian and world income. This traditional mission is now threatened by policies desig...
I grew up in Don Mills in the 1960s and 1970s, and frankly I feel lucky to have gone to school in those years, and not today. The education I got through the North York School Board was pretty good for the times. In my high school, they had some real...
Canada’s population grew by 825,000 in 2022, and then by 1.2 million in 2023, because of mass immigration. To find another year when our population grew by more than 600,000, you have to go back to 1949 – and that’s only because Newfoundland joined C...
Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life. Andrew Lawton. Sutherland House, 2024. As my long-time readers are aware of, I have found much to criticize in Pierre Poilievre – particularly on some of his more unhinged policies (like bribing cities to build apa...
DEI, wokeness, critical race theory, systemic racism, intersectionality and cultural appropriation. Ten or twenty years ago, most of these terms were unknown, and some only existed inside academia or very limited circles of left-wing intellectuals. I...
There is nowhere in Canada where you can escape the effects of mass immigration into our country. Everything has become more expensive as an explosion in population creates an explosion in demand for goods and services, our social services are crumbl...
Nearly all Canadians will agree that Canada is in the middle of a housing crisis. We are not alone in this, with the US, Australia, New Zealand, and even the UK also experiencing problems with housing affordability. The conventional wisdom from YIMBY...
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...