In January 2023, the Trudeau government passed the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act – a two-year foreign buyer ban. In February 2024, the ban was extended for another two years, and is now in place until Januar...
The Trump administration’s ominous annexation threats and unprovoked economic aggression have touched off an unprecedented surge in Canadian nationalism that has swept this country like a prairie fire. This swell of patriotism has taken tangible form...
On July 18th, the National Post published an uncritical review of a book titled Toward Prosperity: The Transformation of Atlantic Canada’s Economy in which former pollster Don Mills and economist David Campbell “detail the dramatic improvements newco...
With Donald Trump’s policy of imposing tariffs on imported cars and trucks into the US, and the fact that both Canada and Mexico were hit with 25% tariffs despite being members of USMCA/CUSMA, the Canadian auto industry (by which we mean manufacturin...
“The Canadians don’t understand what they’ve signed. In 20 years, they will be sucked into the US economy” – US trade representative Clayton Yeutter (1987) “We didn’t enter the agreement over tariffs…The Canadian agreement is a political one – to mak...
In January, I was interviewed by independent filmmaker Sangita Iyer of Mettle Films for a two-part documentary on mass immigration. Part One has now been released. Some of my thoughts were included – along with those of other commentators you may kno...
A recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute reveals that, despite the Trudeau government’s immigration cut, 62% of Canadians still think immigration levels are too high. This majority includes 6...
Canada’s current number one artist is Kent Monkman, a half-Indigenous artist from Ontario. He is known for making provocative paintings about the Indigenous experience in Canada. The purpose of Kent Monkman’s work is diverse. Sometimes, it is to remi...
Canada has slashed permanent resident admissions by 21%, slammed down caps on the international student and foreign worker streams, and bolstered various restrictions across the board. While our immigration rate is still disproportionately high compa...
Wild salmon populations on Canada’s West Coast have been in steady decline for over a century. The latest – and perhaps most devastating – disrupter is open-net pen farming of Atlantic salmon. While the east coast of Vancouver Island saw fish farms c...