“The Dutch may have their Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, The Yankee to the south of us must south of us remain” – Last verse of Canadian Born by Pauline Johnson (1903) The 2025 U.S.-Canada Trade War is on in earnest, with the opening salvoes fired by the Trump administration in an unprovoked act […]
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Yesterday, Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released an impact assessment of the 2025-2027 Immigration Level Plan, which slashes permanent residency admissions by 21% and imposes caps on international students and foreign workers. A dire Global News headline summarized the findings: “Ottawa’s immigration cuts will chop 1.7% off GDP in 3 years: PBO”. That’s not the
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Jasper On Fire: Five Days Of Hell In A Rocky Mountain Paradise. Matthew Scace. Sutherland House, 2025. It was a blaze of epic proportion. A mass evacuation of 25,000 residents, workers, and tourists. 358 of 1,113 structures destroyed. $880 million paid out in insurance claims. Jasper On Fire by reporter Matthew Scace, another book in the
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I was about 11 when the movie Patton came out in 1970. I thought it was so great that I went to see it three times in the theatre, mainly because of George C. Scott’s performance, but also because of a great script that was co-written by Francis Coppola, and which helped his career and
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At a news conference in July, Premier David Eby admitted that B.C.’s “unprecedented population inflows from immigration” are “completely overwhelming”. He painted a dire picture of a province whose systems are buckling: “Our schools are full; we are unable to keep up with housing starts”. Despite the Trudeau government’s effort to curtail immigration, the issue
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on January 10th, 2025. It is republished on Dominion Review in slightly abridged form with permission of the author. First, Population Institute Canada President Madeline Weld discusses the global reliance on the model of endless economic growth, then she moves on to Canada’s current
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Amid Canada’s non-stop immigration debate, CBC News has commissioned a poll surveying newcomers on their experience in Canada and their attitudes towards this country’s immigration policy. The survey was conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights in November, and included 1,507 citizens, permanent residents, and non-permanent residents – all of whom came to Canada in the last
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Editor’s note: In a departure from regular programming, I am publishing a paper explicitly aimed at progressives. Drawing on examples from vampire bat colonies to immigration policy, the author warns that altruistic societies will collapse without built-in safeguards, and argues that the perpetuation of progressive values is predicated on a stable, resilient society. Why am
In 2011, the late great Canadian writer Peter C. Newman published his book When The Gods Changed: The Death Of Liberal Canada. Newman argued that the sweeping electoral majority won by the Conservatives under Stephen Harper on May 2nd, 2011 dealt a final death blow to the Liberal Party. As we know, four years later
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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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