While carrying on the west coast farmer’s interminable crusade against the scourge of the Himalayan blackberry, I listened to a radio call-in show on the recent announcement that average monthly rent in Canada has soared to $2,200 – a new record. One by one, callers described the harrowing, stressful housing situations in which they find […]
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There is nowhere in Canada where you can escape the effects of mass immigration into our country. Everything has become more expensive as an explosion in population creates an explosion in demand for goods and services, our social services are crumbling under the pressure of wave after wave of migrants, and our cities have become
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I just got a 3-month free subscription to Apple TV after a few years away from having it. After watching the last season of Ted Lasso, the next thing I watched was Masters of the Air. It is the follow up series to “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific”, and follows the actual experiences of
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At a news conference on April 2nd, Justin Trudeau reluctantly departed his warm and cozy internal world of ideological certainty, and briefly entered the gritty and unpleasant land of consensus reality. Our Prime Minister finally stopped denying the drop-dead obvious, and admitted that the number of foreign workers and international students on our soil “has
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In an interview with the New York Times shortly after being elected in 2015, Justin Trudeau described Canada as a “post-national state” with “no core identity, no mainstream”. Most people considered this a largely meaningless, if somewhat oddly phrased comment from a man still trying to find his footing in Canada’s highest office. Last week,
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NIMBY: Selfish parochialism or rational self-interest? The term “NIMBY” (Not In My Back Yard) refers to the opposition by local residents to any new infrastructure project, such as a housing development, group home, or incinerator proposed for their neighbourhood. As Robert Lake writes in a 1993 article, Rethinking NIMBY, NIMBY is generally seen as “selfish parochialism”
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In some circles, Canada is portrayed as underpopulated because it covers a huge area and has low population density. Growth promoters suggest that a large proportion of Canada could be converted to farmland to feed both a much larger population and much of the world. That may have seemed to be the case early in
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com). It is republished here with permission of the author. Canadian banks – Bank of Montreal, ScotiaBank and TD Bank – are funding the mass-immigration advocacy group Century Initiative, whose goal is to increase Canada’s population by 60 million people by
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“We wanted workers…but we got people instead.” – Swiss novelist Max Frisch, referring to the foreign ‘guest workers’ allowed into Europe after the Second World War. 1) Housing Crisis This one is simple enough: prices are determined by the relationship between supply and demand. As Canada’s population has grown through large-scale immigration, which reached a
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Editor’s note: The man in the cover image of this article is Daniel Stoffman (1945-2023), the author of Who Gets In – the book which Brian Graff analyzes in this piece. You can purchase this book here. Like many homes, mine has several bookcases. I last moved about 15 years ago and frankly, I would
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