Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on the author’s excellent Substack. In 2011, the Fraser Institute calculated that legal immigrants imposed a net cost on taxpayers of twenty-three and a half billion dollars per year (equivalent, in 2005, to six thousand dollars annually per Canadian). These were people entitled to work, drawn from cohorts
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on September 13th by the Frontier Centre For Public Policy. The International Student Program is now associated with crowded basement rooming houses, viral videos of unscrupulous foreign students boasting of stocking up on “free food” in food banks, students exploited by unscrupulous landlords and bosses, and an explosive
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on October 13th by the Frontier Centre For Public Policy. Canada champions diversity, yet more than a quarter of its new permanent residents come from a single country. In 2022, 27 per cent of permanent resident admissions came from India. The second top source, China, accounted for a
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The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism A Review By Alan Danesh The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism By RICHARD SENNETT W. W. Norton & Company New York London In Memory of Isaiah Berlin ______________________________________________________________________________________ “Today the phrase ‘flexible capitalism’ describes a
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I am not on the political right, which has an obsession with the evils of high government spending and in particular, with running deficits. But the Carney government seems like it is promising to spend massive amounts of money on questionable projects at the same time as it has been cutting back on things that
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A Review By Alan Danesh Technopoly The Surrender of Culture to Technology By Neil Postman Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, APRIL 1993 Copyright © 1992 by Neil Postman _______________________________________________________________________________________________ “Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.”
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The movement afoot in Canada to prohibit by law statements interpreted as skepticism of the prevailing narrative surrounding residential schools represents a critical threat to free speech. Introduced in October 2025 by NDP MP Leah Gazan, Bill C-254, an Act to amend the Criminal Code (promotion of hatred against Indigenous peoples), would “create an offence
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on October 9th in the Epoch Times. Social media is less censored than it was a few years ago, corporations are more hesitant to take divisive political stances, and the public is more emboldened to voice unorthodox views. Yet key institutions such as schools and government bureaucracies are
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Canadians have to be bold and kill off all talk of provinces separating, and soon. The Alberta separatists seem to be a particularly loathsome group, with many apparently really wanting Alberta to join the US, even if it means selling access to Alberta’s resources on the cheap, but Quebec separatists in the past have not
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The victory of the Parti Québécois (PQ) on Monday night will cut immigration flows into Quebec and act as a counterbalance against any potential move by the federal government to raise national immigration levels. PQ Leader Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon, known colloquially by his initials PSPP, ran on a platform that included staunch immigration restrictionism, correctly
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