Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in the Epoch Times on September 28th. Even as Canada reportedly raked in a cool $500 billion in new investment commitments at the mid-September Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, beneath the glamorous headlines, many Canadians are living precarious lives propped up by financial transfers from their families. A
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Up nearby the newspaper I write for in Atikokan, Ontario, there is an upstart gold mine run by a company called GoldX2. On February 5th, 2026, CEO Michael Henrichsen announced the discovery of two “mineralized shear zones” two kilometres south of their main site, in the midst of an “aggressive exploration program”. This discovery expanded
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The world has changed a lot over the last 30 or 40 years, but in the last two years, I have begun to think that Canadians have not fully grasped this. This is particularly the case for our leaders, thinkers, and people of influence who still have an outdated mindset which the election of Trump
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We are told by Prime Minister Carney that Canada will become an “energy superpower” in accord with his major national projects. This is indeed the continuation of Canada’s past history when in the words of the late great Canadian economic historian Harold Innis we were “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” Although the phrase
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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 Surrender, which is a monumental work on political economy of Canada, was not well received by orthodox economists. To illustrate the mindset
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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 entirely for the expansion and protection of investor rights of transnational corporations. It creates a global
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“Save $90 Billion. Stop Alto.” Thus ran Pierre Poilievre’s lectern as he gave a speech on March 31st at a farm near Keene, Ontario. The Leader of the Opposition was speaking out in opposition to the proposed 1,000 km high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City connecting most of the Quebec City–Windsor corridor. He
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The Canadian governing elites, both Conservative and Liberal, claim to be the true custodians of the economy. Yet as the figures below from Statistics Canada and the International Monetary Fund clearly document, the Canadian economy was being rapidly hollowed out in the last six years of Conservative rule. The Total Balance of Payments deficits for 2009, 2010,
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In a previous article, I discussed the way in which nationalistic Red Toryism was supplanted by the more continentalist Blue Toryism. This article will go through the after effects of this supercession, and try to discover the lost Canadian autarky. For the benefit of the reader I will briefly describe the term autarky. Essentially, autarky
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Recent Question Periods in Canada’s House of Commons have been dominated by the issue of food prices, with the Conservative Party mounting a sustained attack on the Carney government’s decision to maintain the industrial portion of the carbon tax, which Conservatives argue is indirectly inflating prices at the till by increasing the price of things
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