Premier Danielle Smith wants Ottawa to grant her provincial government sweeping new immigration powers. In a recent press conference on Alberta’s October referendum, which will seek input from voters on immigration as well as several broader constitutional issues, Smith explained that “what we’re looking at is a model very similar to what Quebec has had […]
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Peter Stubbins is a director of Canadians for a Sustainable Society, an organization of activists and researchers opposed to Canada’s policy of immigration-driven population expansion, which they argue is inflicting serious damage on our environment and social welfare. Stubbins has begun a campaign calling Century Initiative’s charitable status into question. He argues that Century Initiative,
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The federal government is deploying two helicopters to Surrey as police forces in BC’s second-largest city struggle to maintain control of the streets. Surrey’s Indian community has been under siege from a constant barrage of extortion threats, frequently accompanied by arsons and shootings targeted at both homes and businesses. What is now widely being referred
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Have you ever wondered what Canada would be like if we did not have the immigration crisis that we are currently facing? Assuming you cannot remember those ancient days, there still exists a plot of this country that demonstrates the way and quality of life that would exist if there were no mass immigration. The
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This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on December 15th, 2025. It is republished here, in slightly edited and abridged form, with permission of the author. It is the supreme duty of all citizens and the Canadian leadership to seek to protect Canada from preventable evils of tribalization emanating from misguided laws
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The current debate over immigration focuses on international students and temporary workers – but who we choose to let in for the long term matters as well. Economists such as Mikal Skuterud argue that raising GDP per capita should be the priority of Canada’s immigration policy, and we should only let in highly skilled immigrants
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Perhaps the most intractable policy disaster handed to Prime Minister Carney by the Trudeau government is the immigration file. The ugliest detail in that file is undoubtedly the astronomic increase in temporary residents (largely foreign workers, international students, and asylum seekers) – a population that expanded from 3.3% in 2018 to 7.5% in 2024. The
This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on October 30th, 2025. It is republished here with permission of the author. When I look at the accelerating mess that is Canada, I am reminded of the answer by a character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, who was asked how
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After nearly a decade of continually increasing immigration levels, including two consecutive years of allowing them to reach stratospheric heights (annual population growth topped one million in 2022, and almost hit 1.3 million in 2023) the Trudeau government finally caved to public opposition in October 2024 by reducing the 2025 permanent resident target from 500,000
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On July 18th, the National Post published an uncritical review of a book titled Toward Prosperity: The Transformation of Atlantic Canada’s Economy in which former pollster Don Mills and economist David Campbell “detail the dramatic improvements newcomers are bringing to the East Coast” and claim that Atlantic Canada is “in the early stage of an
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