If John Turner (1929-2020) was still alive today, it would be one of Canadian history’s most iconic “I told you so” moments. The 1988 election campaign was largely fought over the single issue of free trade with the United States. Turner warned Canadians that the ultimate outcome of unrestricted free trade would be economic and […]
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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. This version is slightly edited – read the full version here. Rare is the commercial economist who supports tariffs. These fly in the face of the cashflow/endless growth model which most economists have
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Population estimates released by Statistics Canada on January 16th reveal that British Columbia’s population is growing at an astronomical rate. An analysis by CBC broke down the raw figures provided by Stats Can, and generated rates of growth from 2021-2024 for municipalities with over 90,000 residents: As I have written before, B.C.’s population growth is
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Support for economic nationalism is sweeping this country like a prairie fire. At the time of writing, the /r/BuyCanadian subreddit has swelled to 135,000 subscribers. Prime Minister Trudeau has called for an economic boycott of American goods. Premier Ford has ordered American alcohol to be pulled from liquor stores shelves. Nova Scotia has done the
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“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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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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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
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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