This week the CBSA showed up to check the immigration status of international student protestors demanding work permits in Calgary, and Premier Doug Ford’s government amended regulations to bar illegal immigrants, international students, foreign workers, and visitors from accessing government social assistance. These two instances are just a sample of a hardening attitude towards immigration […]
A Review By Alan Danesh The Strange Death of Europe Immigration, Identity, Islam Douglas Murray Bloomsbury London. Oxford. New York. 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ Introduction: The Strange Death of Europe offers numerous explanations, including civilizational and psychological, for the European inability, due to loss of faith in its beliefs, traditions and legitimacy, to protect its culture and identity from
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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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It is often said that anyone can be a Canadian. That in every respect, there should be no distinction between the man from Timmins and the man from Timbuktu. It would offend good conscience to treat one as more worthy than the other. All things being equal, I agree. It might disrespect the very basic
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According to a 2022 analysis from Canada’s Immigration Department, between 2007 and 2018 around 1–2% of births were from temporary residents such as foreign workers, international students, and asylum seekers. Despite being born to foreign parents, the babies in these cases are full citizens entitled to all of the benefits thereof. Indeed, they could put their hat
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in the Epoch Times on March 5th. A new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer projects that Canada’s population growth will be flat this year due to immigration cutbacks and major outflows of temporary residents. For the average Canadian, this is good news. The report analyzes the “demographic implications” of
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Last month, Canada entered a technical recession. This means that overall spending in the economy dropped two fiscal quarters in a row. The first quarter of 2026 saw GDP shrink by 0.1% on an annualized basis. The tail end of 2025 saw a greater contraction of 1%. In short, we are trending poorly. As everyone
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in the Epoch Times on May 26th. Tim Hortons set Canadian social media ablaze on May 25 with a press release promising to hire locals over foreign workers. Behind the drama and hot takes is an important question: If our national coffee icon can do without foreign workers, why does
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in the Epoch Times on April 13th. If through bad luck or bad planning you or your significant other gave birth while on vacation in Bali, you would not expect your baby to be given Indonesian citizenship. Yet in Canada, a baby born to a tourist mother is
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In March, the Carney government announced a relaxation of rules for the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in rural Canada. At the request of any premier, the allowable share of low-wage TFWs in rural workforces can be increased from 10% to 15%. So far, Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia have opted in. It is
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