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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A few years ago, there was a term sometimes applied to the United States: The Indispensable Nation. The problem in 2025, with Trump’s return to power, is that Canada and our other allies might have to find a way to make the US dispensable – or at least, as dispensable as we can manage. It
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In October, the Trudeau government buckled to rising anger over skyrocketing immigration levels and slashed permanent resident admissions while keeping in place previous restrictions on foreign worker and international student numbers. The federal government promised these measures would “pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed, sustainable growth in the long term”. Specifically,
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For Canadians, the years 1963 and 2025 already seem to have a lot in common. In both years, there were federal elections in April that saw the Liberals win with a new Prime Minister sworn in who represented change (though in 2025, the new PM was sworn in weeks before the election and the outgoing
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on May 24th, 2025. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. The Government of Canada’s strategic foresight organization, Policy Horizons Canada, recently issued a report that anticipates a Canada in dire straits in 15 years. The report, with the title
Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All At Once. Tristin Hopper. Sutherland House, 2025. In Don’t Be Canada, Tristin Hopper sets out to explain “the bizarre missteps and policy experiments that have helped Canada set new global standards for disfunction”. Unfortunately, there was no lack of material for him to work with.
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Chris George’s Substack – the By George Journal. It is republished here, in slightly abridged form, with permission of the author. The country’s immigration trends have been a growing concern for Canadians, yet during this federal election campaign immigration policy has been fully eclipsed by anxieties relating
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A sure sign of immigrant assimilation into a host society is the tendency to identity oneself wholly and completely with that society – in other words, to perceive oneself as indistinguishable from that society. While many immigrants do just this, there also exists in this country an entire industry of activists dedicated to the exact
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For years, a number of politicians and media types have said that Canada’s traditional level of annual immigration has averaged at 1% of our total population. They argue that recent levels of immigration are not really very high, or that 1% is a reasonable policy for immigration. In the 1993 election, the Liberals, PCs, and
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