Housing affordability has been the major issue impacting average Canadians ever since the Covid pandemic has declined in importance. For around two decades, if not longer, the housing policies of Ontario and BC have been oriented towards promoting the densification of cities and major urban areas. This became even more important with the introduction of […]
Why Isn’t Densification Making Housing Cheaper? Read More »
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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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on August 27th, 2024. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. Not long ago, I was contacted by an immigrant from a developing country that I’ll call “Pangea” who had seen one of my articles republished on a Canadian housing subreddit.
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After working as a reporter for the Vancouver Sun for seventeen years, Barry Broadfoot left his desk to travel “at least 15,000 miles” with a tape recorder and collect oral accounts of living through Canada’s Great Depression. He interviewed hundreds of Canadians from all walks of life. Sometimes he conducted scheduled interviews, but often he
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Ottawa is committed to achieving 100% zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales by 2035 for all new light duty vehicles. A closer look at the timeline the Trudeau government envisions reveals how ambitious this plan really is: By 2026: 20% new passenger vehicle sales will be ZEVs. By 2030: 60% new passenger vehicle sales will be ZEVs.
$52.5 Billion: Understanding Canada’s Wasteful Electric Vehicle Subsidies Read More »
At a press conference on Tuesday morning, Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced a six-month freeze on low-wage foreign worker visas in Montreal to limit pressure on housing and public services, as well as to protect the French language. While there are exemptions for the health, education, construction, agriculture, and food processing sectors, the measure is
Quebec’s Freeze On Foreign Worker Visas Is A Challenge To Trudeau Read More »
When I go on X, or Twitter, or Ex-Twitter or X-Twitter, my feed is often full of ideological people pushing the idea that Land Value Taxes (LVTs) are the solution to many of the problems of modern life, and the housing crisis in particular. I don’t agree, and I find these people naïve. The idea
That’s Not Fair! What Should Governments Subsidize? Read More »
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on July 4th, 2024. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. Why is growth in your city exploding? Most Canadians have probably never heard of the Century Initiative. It operates behind the scenes and has received a measure of public scrutiny
The Century Initiative: A Blueprint For A Bigger, Broken Canada Read More »
Recently (late June 2024), Statistics Canada released the projections for Canada’s population for the next 49 years, all the way to 2073. There were headlines in The Toronto Star and other newspapers on these projections, and in particular on the revelation that Canada’s population in 2073 is likely to be approximately 63 million people –
Will Canada Really Have 63 Million People In 2073? Do We Have A Choice? Read More »
We live in an era where everybody is adamant about their rights, particularly their human rights as citizens. Nobody wants to be a second-class citizen, and it is one of the major areas of progress in the last hundred years that we have a Charter of Rights in Canada – and long before that had
Canadian Citizenship Should Not Be Without Obligations Read More »
