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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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on the Policy Hawk Substack, where you can find incisive analysis of Canadian defence and security. It was published on May 18th, Victoria Day. Today, the United States’ Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge Colby, announced that the Department of Defence “is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on
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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Canada’s military recruitment is up. That much is true. But, as often is the case, the Devil is in the details. In the last fiscal year, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) “enrolled 7,310 Regular Force members, surpassing its recruiting target of 6,957 new members and marking the highest number of enrolments in more than 30
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The earliest manifestation of Canadian nationalism began just before the First World War. The person leading the movement was Henri Bourassa who was considered the ideological father of French-Canadian nationalism. However he established the Canadian Nationalist League in 1903 with the aim of instilling pan-Canadian nationalist spirit among the French-Canadian population. Shortly before the start of the Great
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In an April 17th article, Rodrigo Garfinkle contextualized the recent push to return Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue to Kingston’s City Park. Condemned to a dusty warehouse in the summer of 2021, locals have started in numbers to finally question the confinement of our first prime minister. With a recent surge in nationalist sentiment in
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What have you done for me lately? I am not sure why, but that phrase popped into my head a few weeks ago when I was reading something by an Alberta separatist online. There was a song with that title 40 years ago by Janet Jackson. I was never a big fan and nothing by
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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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I’m Rodrigo Garfinkle, former President of the Queen’s University Conservative Association. For as long as I have attended Queen’s University, Sir John A. Macdonald’s relationship with Queen’s and Kingston has been dismissed and cancelled. In the wake of the 2021 Kamloops alleged grave discoveries, a frenzy took hold of the nation, resulting in the removal
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The Quebec Government is to be commended for showing leadership and courage in enacting legislation to outlaw the exhibition of religious symbols by public employees while at work in the public service. Ever since the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, social scientists have consistently warned that the Charter is deeply
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