Jasper On Fire: Five Days Of Hell In A Rocky Mountain Paradise. Matthew Scace. Sutherland House, 2025. It was a blaze of epic proportion. A mass evacuation of 25,000 residents, workers, and tourists. 358 of 1,113 structures destroyed. $880 million paid out in insurance claims. Jasper On Fire by reporter Matthew Scace, another book in the […]
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At a news conference in July, Premier David Eby admitted that B.C.’s “unprecedented population inflows from immigration” are “completely overwhelming”. He painted a dire picture of a province whose systems are buckling: “Our schools are full; we are unable to keep up with housing starts”. Despite the Trudeau government’s effort to curtail immigration, the issue
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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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In 2011, the late great Canadian writer Peter C. Newman published his book When The Gods Changed: The Death Of Liberal Canada. Newman argued that the sweeping electoral majority won by the Conservatives under Stephen Harper on May 2nd, 2011 dealt a final death blow to the Liberal Party. As we know, four years later
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Like Canadians generally, British Columbians are going through economic hardship. Throughout our election campaign in October, the cost of living was top of mind for voters and candidates. One in three B.C. residents, and half of those aged 18-34, are seriously considering leaving the province because of the price of housing. In many communities, people
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After narrowly returning to power in October, Premier David Eby’s NDP government is proceeding full steam ahead with increasingly controversial province-wide densification plans. The B.C. NDP’s Bill 44 is now in effect. This piece of legislation mandates that all municipalities with over 5,000 residents allow four to six housing units on what were formerly single-family
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A new survey conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies reveals that a majority of Canadians oppose taking cultural background or race into account in hiring decisions. To read the full survey, click here. Here are some of the key results: Majority of Canadians want hiring to be colourblind “When companies hire people,
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“I am going to get very vocal about things happening in Canada, and I’m okay if that upsets some people”. That’s how former Vancouver Police Board vice-chair Comfort Sakoma began a series of Instagram posts describing her concerns about the effects of mass immigration and state-imposed multiculturalism. She didn’t pull any punches: “Years ago, I
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Society’s fears and hatreds are projected onto the movie screen. Falling Down was released in 1993, in a decade characterized by fears of gang violence and urban disorder. William Forster, a divorced and unemployed defense engineer, is stuck in rush hour traffic on a searing hot day when his final nerve snaps. He gets out,
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In a recent article in the Financial Post, I reported that support for Canadian immigration restriction had reached 72% – a statistical supermajority that includes all major political parties and every age group. In another recent column, I wondered whether this astonishingly high percentage was the ceiling of support, or whether opposition to high immigration
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