It is now mid-August 2026. Trump has decided to impose a 50% tariff on most imports from Canada, with a few exceptions like oil and gas. He may well “TACO” (Trump always chickens out) by the upcoming August 19th deadline, particularly if it looks like the Canadian government is making concessions or is likely to […]
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This week the CBSA showed up to check the immigration status of international student protestors demanding work permits in Calgary, and Premier Doug Ford’s government amended regulations to bar illegal immigrants, international students, foreign workers, and visitors from accessing government social assistance. These two instances are just a sample of a hardening attitude towards immigration
A Review By Alan Danesh The Strange Death of Europe Immigration, Identity, Islam Douglas Murray Bloomsbury London. Oxford. New York. 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ Introduction: The Strange Death of Europe offers numerous explanations, including civilizational and psychological, for the European inability, due to loss of faith in its beliefs, traditions and legitimacy, to protect its culture and identity from
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Democracies, we are told, are governed with the consent of the people who constitute the sovereign power in modern democracies. This is merely an illusion. As Professors Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman document the processes governing modern democracies in their monumental work, Manufacturing Consent, deception and modern propaganda totally shape public opinion and lead citizens of
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I handed out this essay at the North Simcoe Eco Exchange in Coldwater, Ontario. ___________________________________________________________________________ I understand that one of the missions here today is the exchange of ideas. There are three messages I want to convey, beyond our shared determination to protect and rehabilitate degraded natural systems. First. The environmental movement, from my perspective,
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The Fate of the Earth By Jonathan Schell Stanford University Press One of the most influential books of the turn of the century alerting the population to the terrible effects of nuclear war has been Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth. The world has not become a safer place ever since the publication of the book.
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on the Policy Hawk Substack, where you can find incisive analysis of Canadian defence and security. Each year, as wildfires threaten and destroy communities in Canada’s north, the country’s capacity to fight them returns to the forefront of public attention. This year, that attention has intensified. Smoke has spread
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The following are selections from Professor Noam Chomsky’s Media Control. We quote directly from his book in order to retain the clarity and the frank tone of his writing. **************** “The role of the media in contemporary politics forces us to ask what kind of a world and what kind of a society we want to live
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Provinces Can Resist Post-Nationalism The current arrangement of power and representation disfavours a truly nationalist and pro-Canadian federal policy. Fortunately, the provincial level shelters a second and underfortified bastion from which to prevent the permanent degeneration of Canada into a post-national project of economic development. In Ontario, the Progressive Conservatives have secured commanding majority after
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Whenever the topic of “nationalism” is broached, there seems to be a cloud of taboo surrounding the usage of that word. Patriotism is permitted, and chauvinism can be tolerated, but to be nationalist? For many, that is a bridge too far. This has resulted in a convoluted conceptual web surrounding nationalism within its typical understanding
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