Adrienne Clarkson And The Erosion Of The Canadian State’s Legitimacy

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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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Conservative MP Switches Parties, But Not Policy

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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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Why I Am Both Anti-Americanization And Anti-Immigration

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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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Macdonald Or Mulroney: The Conservative Crossroads

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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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My Municipal Taxes Keep Going Up But My City Isn’t Getting Any Better

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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

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Canada Has Become A US Colony – Now Is Our Chance To Decolonize

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“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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New Book Chronicles Canada’s Descent Into Madness

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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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World Sikh Organization Canada Demands Extensions For Expiring Visas, More PR Pathways

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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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Tweedle Dumb And Tweedle Dumber: Neither Major Federal Party Gets It Right

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It has been an incredible reversal of fortune for each of the two major Canadian political parties since November, and also the NDP, if you believe the many polls in the last few weeks. The only thing more incredible has been the change in the US since January 6th, 2021. Donald Trump has gone from

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Saving Canada From Trump? Look Who’s Talking!

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Hurricane Donald makes landfall over Canada When it started it seemed like a joke. Donald Trump has a penchant for goading people with exaggerated statements and pejorative nicknames, so when he called Justin Trudeau “Governor” while berating  Canada for being a conduit for fentanyl to the US, not pulling its weight militarily, and taking advantage

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