“I am going to get very vocal about things happening in Canada, and I’m okay if that upsets some people”. That’s how former Vancouver Police Board vice-chair Comfort Sakoma began a series of Instagram posts describing her concerns about the effects o...
Society’s fears and hatreds are projected onto the movie screen. Falling Down was released in 1993, in a decade characterized by fears of gang violence and urban disorder. William Forster, a divorced and unemployed defense engineer, is stuck in rush...
Foreign policy includes a variety of objectives, including economic ones. During the Cold War, up to around 1990, Canada’s role in the world was pretty clear. We were part of NATO, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and the G7. We work...
My mother was in her early 90s when she passed away in early 2016. She was often fascinated by US politics. She bought our first colour TV in 1973 because she wanted to watch the Watergate hearings in colour, which to me seemed pointless since it was...
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 a recent article in the Financial Post, I reported that support for Canadian immigration restriction had reached 72% – a statistical supermajority that includes all major political parties and every age group. In another recent column, I wondered...
“Our fair Dominion now extends from Cape Race to Nootka Sound. May peace forever be our lot, and plenteous store abound” – Maple Leaf Forever (Canada’s unofficial anthem until the late ‘60s) One day in university, myself and one of my roommates in ou...
In the days before the US election, the major news media in Canada and the US (newspapers, TV networks, and cable channels etc., excluding Fox News) were saying that the US election was so close in the polls that they could not predict a winner. The...
On November 8th it was reported by CBS that the newly elected Council of the City of Dawson in the Yukon would be abstaining from the legally mandatory Oath of Allegiance following this year’s municipal election. According to the Yukon Municipal Act,...
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on October 31st, 2024. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. In 2001, I attended some sessions...