Grassroots and Party Elites: What you Need to Know About the CPC23 Convention

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CPC23 Convention and National Council Elections. The September 7-9, 2023 Conservative Party of Canada Convention (CPC23) in Quebec City is the first in-person convention in five years, since 2018! Why are Conservative Party Convention tickets so much more expensive than they were in previous years? This year’s prices are $459 for a youth ticket and […]

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Immigration-Driven Population Growth: Canada’s Untouchable Subject

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This is such a huge sensitive subject … where to begin and how to keep it succinct. To me, population growth in Canada and the world affects two key aspects of life: 1)  quality of life and 2)  the survival of humans and all other species on the planet. Quality of life is a very

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Canada’s Incompatible Environment and Immigration Policies

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The Good Ship Canada at 40 Million: Where Are We Headed? Congratulations, Canada! On June 16, right on time for Canada Day, you reached a population of 40 million. This is no mean feat for a country whose total fertility rate is 1.4 children per woman and has been below the replacement level of 2.1 since 1971, when its

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Can Social Trust and Diversity Coexist?

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Editor’s note: When this op-ed was originally published in the print and digital versions of the Vancouver Sun in September 2019, it ignited significant controversy on social media. The Vancouver Sun subsequently deleted the article from its website and issued an apology. With permission of the author, in the interest of freedom of speech, it

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$16.3 Billion Saint Thomas Volkswagen EV Battery Plant Is A Bad Idea

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Government, Volkswagen, and Stellantis: Do the Jobs Justify the Cost? Two battery plants, Volkswagen and Stellantis, are vying for electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing dominance. The federal and provincial governments are promising large contributions to help build these plants. Volkswagen is building a new plant in St. Thomas, which is set to begin producing in

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The Environmental Dogs Bark But The Growth Caravan Moves On

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Ignoring the Fundamental Issue Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb And don’t go near the water. This anonymous little poem comes to my mind when I read about the advocacy efforts of various anti-sprawl and environmental groups. The obvious absurdity of the poem

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Immigration and Population in the Corporate Media

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A November 29, 2022 Globe and Mail article is representative of a slew of articles appearing recently in the Canadian MSM nibbling around the mass immigration issue now that immigration levels have been raised from disastrous to ludicrous. Media corporations have continuously pushed for higher levels of immigration over the past 5 decades but in

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