In March, the Carney government announced a relaxation of rules for the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in rural Canada. At the request of any premier, the allowable share of low-wage TFWs in rural workforces can be increased from 10% to 15%....
Introduction In preparing this article I am indebted to Professor Kari Levitt on whose pioneering work, Silent Surrender (1970), I have relied for the information on how multinationals operating in Canada have undermined Canadian sovereignty. Silent...
Canada’s military recruitment is up. That much is true. But, as often is the case, the Devil is in the details. In the last fiscal year, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) “enrolled 7,310 Regular Force members, surpassing its recruiting target of 6,957...
The earliest manifestation of Canadian nationalism began just before the First World War. The person leading the movement was Henri Bourassa who was considered the ideological father of French-Canadian nationalism. However he established the Canadian...
In an April 17th article, Rodrigo Garfinkle contextualized the recent push to return Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue to Kingston’s City Park. Condemned to a dusty warehouse in the summer of 2021, locals have started in numbers to finally question the...
At the Munich Security Conference on February 18, 2023, the geometrically illiterate German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated that Russia must change its course by “360 degrees” to ensure long-term peace in Ukraine! Any grade six student know...
What have you done for me lately? I am not sure why, but that phrase popped into my head a few weeks ago when I was reading something by an Alberta separatist online. There was a song with that title 40 years ago by Janet Jackson. I was never a big f...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), in its slightly revised version, CPTPP, is referred to by the official circles as a trade agreement; this is a deception intended to hide from the public the fact that this multilateral agreement is almost entirel...
I’m Rodrigo Garfinkle, former President of the Queen’s University Conservative Association. For as long as I have attended Queen’s University, Sir John A. Macdonald’s relationship with Queen’s and Kingston has been dismissed and cancelled. In the wak...
The Quebec Government is to be commended for showing leadership and courage in enacting legislation to outlaw the exhibition of religious symbols by public employees while at work in the public service. Ever since the adoption of the Charter of Right...