In January 2023, the Trudeau government passed the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act – a two-year foreign buyer ban. In February 2024, the ban was extended for another two years, and is now in place until January 2027. The ban has proved popular, with a poll by Research Co. released […]
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The Trump administration’s ominous annexation threats and unprovoked economic aggression have touched off an unprecedented surge in Canadian nationalism that has swept this country like a prairie fire. This swell of patriotism has taken tangible form in the US goods and travel boycott, and the Buy Canadian movement. Far from symbolic, the actions of Canadian
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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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With Donald Trump’s policy of imposing tariffs on imported cars and trucks into the US, and the fact that both Canada and Mexico were hit with 25% tariffs despite being members of USMCA/CUSMA, the Canadian auto industry (by which we mean manufacturing of vehicles, as well as parts for new vehicles) is under threat. Meanwhile,
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“The Canadians don’t understand what they’ve signed. In 20 years, they will be sucked into the US economy” – US trade representative Clayton Yeutter (1987) “We didn’t enter the agreement over tariffs…The Canadian agreement is a political one – to make sure you don’t go back to those policies like the National Energy Policy…It wasn’t
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In January, I was interviewed by independent filmmaker Sangita Iyer of Mettle Films for a two-part documentary on mass immigration. Part One has now been released. Some of my thoughts were included – along with those of other commentators you may know such as Kirk Lubimov, Darshan Maharaja, Tasha Kheirridin, Natasha Graham, Simon Nantais, and
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A recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute reveals that, despite the Trudeau government’s immigration cut, 62% of Canadians still think immigration levels are too high. This majority includes 60% of native-born Canadians and 57% of foreign-born Canadians, indicating broad support for immigration restriction across different backgrounds. While
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Canada’s current number one artist is Kent Monkman, a half-Indigenous artist from Ontario. He is known for making provocative paintings about the Indigenous experience in Canada. The purpose of Kent Monkman’s work is diverse. Sometimes, it is to remind us of past wrongs, sometimes it is to empower Indigenous peoples. A theme that repeatedly comes
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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
I haven’t watched The Simpsons for a long time, but one of my favourite episodes was “Homer the Great” from the sixth season, where Homer joins an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. Homer ends up becoming the leader of the Stonecutters Lodge, then he alienates all the other members so much that they
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