I handed out this essay at the North Simcoe Eco Exchange in Coldwater, Ontario. ___________________________________________________________________________ I understand that one of the missions here today is the exchange of ideas. There are three messages I want to convey, beyond our shared determination to protect and rehabilitate degraded natural systems. First. The environmental movement, from my perspective, […]
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on the Policy Hawk Substack, where you can find incisive analysis of Canadian defence and security. Each year, as wildfires threaten and destroy communities in Canada’s north, the country’s capacity to fight them returns to the forefront of public attention. This year, that attention has intensified. Smoke has spread
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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 closed through Indigenous leadership and federal cooperation, the west coast tells a different
Jasper On Fire: Five Days Of Hell In A Rocky Mountain Paradise. Matthew Scace. Sutherland House, 2025. It was a blaze of epic proportion. A mass evacuation of 25,000 residents, workers, and tourists. 358 of 1,113 structures destroyed. $880 million paid out in insurance claims. Jasper On Fire by reporter Matthew Scace, another book in the
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com), which I encourage readers to check out. It is republished here, in a slightly abridged format, with permission of the author. When did we stop loving the land? While the growth lobby pushes their agenda of a constant increase in population,
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Ottawa is committed to achieving 100% zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales by 2035 for all new light duty vehicles. A closer look at the timeline the Trudeau government envisions reveals how ambitious this plan really is: By 2026: 20% new passenger vehicle sales will be ZEVs. By 2030: 60% new passenger vehicle sales will be ZEVs.
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On May 15th, 2023, the House of Commons voted on a Bloc Quebecois motion condemning the Century Initiative, an immigration lobby which wants to raise Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. The motion failed, with 138 Bloc and Conservative MPs voting in favour, and 168 Liberal and New Democrat MPs voting against. This was
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In some circles, Canada is portrayed as underpopulated because it covers a huge area and has low population density. Growth promoters suggest that a large proportion of Canada could be converted to farmland to feed both a much larger population and much of the world. That may have seemed to be the case early in
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A few weeks ago, PIC made a tweet about sprawl. Twitter, as you likely know, limits the number of characters, including spaces, in a tweet to 280, so one must be terse. The tweet read: “You want to stop sprawl but won’t talk about population growth? Then you’re fixating on a symptom but ignoring the
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This is such a huge sensitive subject … where to begin and how to keep it succinct. To me, population growth in Canada and the world affects two key aspects of life: 1) quality of life and 2) the survival of humans and all other species on the planet. Quality of life is a very
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