To me, the Toronto Public Library is an “essential service” since I borrow so many books. This is hardly surprising when my father and my stepfather each ran public library systems in Toronto a few decades back. The TPL has been the victim of a ranso...
It is endlessly ironic that George Orwell’s 1984 is still assigned reading in Canadian high schools. If students make it to Chapter Five of this classic dystopian novel, they read the following: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every bo...
Poilievre’s Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) currently has the greatest political opportunity to reform immigration since it started to work against the interests of the people decades ago. With immigration so obviously the cause of the decline in...
I never was very good at math. Some of my best Grade 10 math scores were achieved via the Forgotten Calculator scheme, whereby myself and a few co-conspirators gained permission to share a calculator, then passed it around with the right answer typed...
During the past couple of weeks, there has been a striking move towards lowering immigration levels in England and Australia, with New Zealand’s government hinting that it may follow suit. England: Bipartisan Consensus on Immigration Restriction in t...
A Leger poll commissioned by Canadians for a Sustainable Society, a Canadian environmentalist organization, contains striking insights into public attitudes on a variety of topics, including immigration levels: What Canadians Want (Leger, May 5th 202...
In September, Poilievre embarked on a grand tour of the NDP stronghold of Vancouver Island, holding a boisterous 1,500-person rally in the hamlet of Black Creek near Courtenay and Campbell River. On November 13th, Poilievre held a rally in Duncan’s C...
In the last few days, two new polls on Canadian immigration attitudes have been released from respected polling firms Leger and Abacus. The data shows that skepticism of large-scale immigration continues to increase among Canadians. Thresholds and Te...
I recently put out a tweet about how disgusting I found it that Minister of Immigration Marc Miller was bragging about how refugees brought in by his government were being housed on the same day. Day after day, he had been making announcements about...
The B.C. NDP has introduced Bill-44, which if passed later this fall will abolish single-family zoning in all municipalities with more than 5,000 residents. Three to four housing units, in the form of secondary suites, laneway houses, townhomes, trip...