“War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” Those are the words written on the Ministry of Truth building against the skyline of Airstrip One in Orwell’s novel 1984. In Ottawa, it seems that a new addition has been made to the fictional motto of the totalitarian Party: “Canada is Multicultural.” People often assert […]
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The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets And Harm Canadians. Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar. Sutherland House, 2024. “If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade” – U.S. Senator John Sherman, responsible for the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, Walmart, and Costco comprise 80%
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The Ontario I grew up in was governed by what was called the “Big Blue Machine”, the nickname for the Progressive Conservative Party that governed the province for 42 years from 1943-1985. Premiers Drew, Frost, Robarts, and Davis provided forward-thinking and competent government that made few major mistakes. The PCs stayed in power largely because
Ontario Used To Be Well Governed, But Has Lost Its Mojo Read More »
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
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Jamil Jilvani, the Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Durham, rose in the House of Commons on September 17th to oppose Bill C-71 – a Liberal bill which would allow Canadian citizens who were born outside of Canada to pass citizenship on to their children who are also born outside of Canada. Bill C-71
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.
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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
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