On Wednesday, the same day that the Liberal caucus gathered to hear the contents of a letter signed by 20 Liberal MPs asking for Trudeau to step down, the National Post broke the story that the Trudeau government plans to slash immigration levels. Th...
Today, the Kinsol Trestle that spans the Koksilah River is considered to be one of Vancouver Island’s greatest tourist attractions and one of the “most spectacular timber rail trestle structures in the world”. Fifteen years ago, the former Canadian N...
Editor’s note: This article was published earlier in the day, before the National Post released its story revealing that the Trudeau government intends to slash permanent resident levels from this year’s 485,000 to 395,000 in 2025, 380,000 in 2026, a...
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...