Our education system carves out a bit of time in the curriculum to discuss the Acadian people. As a result, many Canadians know that the Acadians were francophones who lived in what is now Atlantic Canada. They were expelled from the Maritimes and New England during the French and Indian War, as England attempted to […]
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When I was a kid in the 1960s, my mother took me to see a really funny movie titled The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. It was directed by that great Canadian, Norman Jewison, who I had the pleasure to meet once, because I became friends with his kids through a mutual friend.
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A new Leger poll examines Canadian public opinion on immigration, government debt, and back-to-office mandates for federal government workers. To read the full poll, click here. I have included some of the key points on immigration attitudes below. Each of the three questions below have been in the news in recent weeks. Last month, Poilievre
Beneath the set of policies pursued by a prime minister usually rests a conception of what Canada was, is, and should be: Macdonald’s anti-American Canadian nationalism, Diefenbaker’s old-school toryism and affinity for Canada’s British connection, Lester B. Pearson’s liberal internationalism that informed his support for global endeavours such as peacekeeping. For better or worse, even
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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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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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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Those who have read the history of English jurisprudence and are knowledgeable about the contributions of the jury system to assuring fair trials and ensuring that justice is dispensed to the accused would not accept the politicization of a system of justice that has served the Western civilization for millennia. One of the greatest contributions
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I have been sent a collection of photos taken from a family’s home in Delta, BC documenting how their quality of life is being impacted by a major housing development being built right next door to them. To protect the family’s privacy, I will not be any more specific about the exact location. This is
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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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