The commons are the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society. They include natural resources such as the air, fishing grounds, groundwater basins, grazing lands, irrigation canals, streams, lakes, and oceans. They are, as Dr. Ursula Franklin has pointed out in her book The Real World of Technology, indivisible benefits. These resources are […]
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Editor’s note: If you enjoy this article, check out Madelaine Drohan’s book He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure To Annex Canada to learn even more! There was a time when Donald Trump’s jibes about making Canada the 51st state were dismissed in Canada as typical bombast from the American president, a pressure tactic, perhaps,
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In early 2025, weeks after we sent water bombers to help extinguish the Los Angeles wildfires, the second Trump administration launched an unprovoked economic assault on Canada accompanied by repeated threats to annex us, including through “economic force”. A year onwards, we have become a stronger country as a result. Shaken awake from our dream
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Editor’s note: This is an expanded version of an article originally published in the journal Humanist Perspectives – Issue 210, autumn 2019. “One of the most influential commissions in Canadian history, the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963–69) brought about sweeping changes to federal and provincial language policy. The commission was a response to
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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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Population growth from mass immigration is leading to a corresponding mass densification of many of Canada’s neighbourhoods, as all levels of government scramble to build housing. The YIMBY (“Yes In My Back Yard”) movement – whose adherents effectively function as the shock troops of the development industry – has mobilized immense effort to persuade Canadians
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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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A political quagmire was created when Conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor to the Liberal Party on December 11th. This follows the earlier defection of Chris d’Entremont back in November. Now, if you read the headlines, this is being portrayed as a great betrayal of principles by other Conservative MPs. The argument is that
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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
Which Immigrants We Choose Matters To Young Canadians, And Seniors Too Read More »
Recent Question Periods in Canada’s House of Commons have been dominated by the issue of food prices, with the Conservative Party mounting a sustained attack on the Carney government’s decision to maintain the industrial portion of the carbon tax, which Conservatives argue is indirectly inflating prices at the till by increasing the price of things
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