What The “Densification” Of Canada’s Neighbourhoods Really Looks Like

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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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Canada’s So-Called “Housing Crisis” Is Over – At Least For Now

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Nobody will argue that housing is not a necessity, particular in places like Canada with a cold and wet climate. Canada had a housing crisis in the 1940s, after a decade and a half of depression and war, and with the population of its cities surging from returning soldiers, immigration, the movement of Canadians from

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Mass Densification Is The Wrong Solution To Canada’s Housing Crisis

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In cities and towns across Canada, housing activists are pushing to densify single-family neighbourhoods by overhauling zoning codes. This is fuelling tension as battles over community character flare, while at the same time failing to address the fundamental cause of Canada’s housing crisis: unsustainable immigration-driven population growth. In Saanich, a municipality on the southern end

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These Graphs Prove That Canada’s Housing Crisis Is Driven By Immigration

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Housing, housing, housing. It’s constantly in the news, and with good reason – finding a place to live has become an all-consuming worry for many Canadians. Pundits and mainstream media columnists have created a veritable cottage industry out of concocting increasingly niche solutions for the housing crisis. Everything from deploying legions of prefabricated houses to

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You May Be A Landlord Or Real Estate Speculator, And Not Even Know It!

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Newspapers in Canada have been covering the “housing crisis”, with many stories about the high cost of buying or renting a home since the pandemic. Landlords are a frequent target of these stories, particularly over issues like renovictions, high rents, and renting houses to foreign students by placing beds nearly any place one can fit

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Will The State, Once Again, Take An Interest In The Bedrooms Of The Nation?

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on April 30th, 2024. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author.  “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau famously said in 1967 while discussing his omnibus bill with reporters, which included changes to the criminal

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Canada’s Immigration Delirium

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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) wrote that social stigma can be stronger than legislative prohibition in suppressing controversial speech. He argued that silencing opinion prevents debate, obstructing society’s search for truth by turning officially sanctioned views into little more than indefensible prejudices. The social stigma around mass immigration is clearly shown by the unwillingness of Canadians

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