During the darkest time of the Second World War, when Britain was all alone faced with the formidable German Luftwaffe that had the mission to annihilate Britain, it was the heroism and bravery of the Royal Air Force fighter pilots that saved Britain. To express the nation’s gratitude to these brave young men, Churchill, the […]
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Beneath the set of policies pursued by a prime minister usually rests a conception of what Canada was, is, and should be: Macdonald’s anti-American Canadian nationalism, Diefenbaker’s old-school toryism and affinity for Canada’s British connection, Lester B. Pearson’s liberal internationalism that informed his support for global endeavours such as peacekeeping. For better or worse, even
The revelations that the long-retired Governor General Adrienne Clarkson has been charging the public treasury in personal expense claims for “continuing to serve” Canada to the tune of $1.1 million in the years since her retirement in 2005 have shone light on wastefulness in the dark recesses of the Canadian state. Her extravagant personal expense
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A political quagmire was created when Conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor to the Liberal Party on December 11th. This follows the earlier defection of Chris d’Entremont back in November. Now, if you read the headlines, this is being portrayed as a great betrayal of principles by other Conservative MPs. The argument is that
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For those who struggle to distinguish between trends and individuals, policies and people, a disclaimer. Being anti-immigration means being in favour of restricting immigration, not being against immigrants as people (whatever that would mean). Being against Americanization, or being in favour of anti-American Canadian nationalism, obviously does not entail a dislike of all Americans as
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Do you remember when Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister? We mostly remember him now for the introduction of GST, and those little pins that everyone would wear to protest against it. But there is a part of Mulroney’s legacy that is rather overlooked in the public retrospect of Canadian history, and that is his continentalism.
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on August 29th, 2025. It is republished here with permission of the author. A city in a state of perpetual transformation I am an eyewitness to the transformation of Canada’s capital from a city of some charm to just another big
My Municipal Taxes Keep Going Up But My City Isn’t Getting Any Better Read More »
“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 make sure you don’t go back to those policies like the National Energy Policy…It wasn’t
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Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All At Once. Tristin Hopper. Sutherland House, 2025. In Don’t Be Canada, Tristin Hopper sets out to explain “the bizarre missteps and policy experiments that have helped Canada set new global standards for disfunction”. Unfortunately, there was no lack of material for him to work with.
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The World Sikh Organization (WSO), Canada’s largest Sikh advocacy organization, has released an election guide which contains an exhaustive list of “key policy priorities” that extend across a variety of public policy spheres – everything from more accommodations for Sikh articles of faith on worksites to formal recognition of what the WSO describes as “the
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