Unfortunately, we live in a violent world, but not as violent as it has been. In 2011, Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, and public intellectual Stephen Pinker wrote a book called The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Pinker argued that violence around the world has declined in both the long term and […]
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Like Canadians generally, British Columbians are going through economic hardship. Throughout our election campaign in October, the cost of living was top of mind for voters and candidates. One in three B.C. residents, and half of those aged 18-34, are seriously considering leaving the province because of the price of housing. In many communities, people
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After narrowly returning to power in October, Premier David Eby’s NDP government is proceeding full steam ahead with increasingly controversial province-wide densification plans. The B.C. NDP’s Bill 44 is now in effect. This piece of legislation mandates that all municipalities with over 5,000 residents allow four to six housing units on what were formerly single-family
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A new survey conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies reveals that a majority of Canadians oppose taking cultural background or race into account in hiring decisions. To read the full survey, click here. Here are some of the key results: Majority of Canadians want hiring to be colourblind “When companies hire people,
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“I am going to get very vocal about things happening in Canada, and I’m okay if that upsets some people”. That’s how former Vancouver Police Board vice-chair Comfort Sakoma began a series of Instagram posts describing her concerns about the effects of mass immigration and state-imposed multiculturalism. She didn’t pull any punches: “Years ago, I
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Society’s fears and hatreds are projected onto the movie screen. Falling Down was released in 1993, in a decade characterized by fears of gang violence and urban disorder. William Forster, a divorced and unemployed defense engineer, is stuck in rush hour traffic on a searing hot day when his final nerve snaps. He gets out,
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Foreign policy includes a variety of objectives, including economic ones. During the Cold War, up to around 1990, Canada’s role in the world was pretty clear. We were part of NATO, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and the G7. We worked with those groups – and other allies when possible (Australia, South Korea, Israel,
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My mother was in her early 90s when she passed away in early 2016. She was often fascinated by US politics. She bought our first colour TV in 1973 because she wanted to watch the Watergate hearings in colour, which to me seemed pointless since it was mostly just old men in a room talking.
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com), which I encourage readers to check out. It is republished here, in a slightly abridged format, with permission of the author. The cloak of invisibility is starting to fall off the elephant in the room. Some may think that Canadian government
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In a recent article in the Financial Post, I reported that support for Canadian immigration restriction had reached 72% – a statistical supermajority that includes all major political parties and every age group. In another recent column, I wondered whether this astonishingly high percentage was the ceiling of support, or whether opposition to high immigration
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