The Confederation Poets The Founding of a Canadian Poetry, 1880 to The First World War Guernica Editions, 2022 James Deahl Most know the Aesop’s Fable of the fox and the hedgehog. The fox covers a wide range of territory and sees much. The hedgehog burrows deep and ever deeper in a narrow patch of ground. […]
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A few weeks ago, PIC made a tweet about sprawl. Twitter, as you likely know, limits the number of characters, including spaces, in a tweet to 280, so one must be terse. The tweet read: “You want to stop sprawl but won’t talk about population growth? Then you’re fixating on a symptom but ignoring the
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Crisis? What crisis? Following the cabinet shuffle in July, Canada’s freshly minted immigration minister, Marc Miller, has repeatedly reiterated that his government is not considering reducing immigration levels despite Canada’s housing crisis. The competition for housing is so intense that house prices have doubled since Miller’s boss, Justin Trudeau, came to power in 2015. The impacts of this
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CPC23 Convention and National Council Elections. The September 7-9, 2023 Conservative Party of Canada Convention (CPC23) in Quebec City is the first in-person convention in five years, since 2018! Why are Conservative Party Convention tickets so much more expensive than they were in previous years? This year’s prices are $459 for a youth ticket and
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This is such a huge sensitive subject … where to begin and how to keep it succinct. To me, population growth in Canada and the world affects two key aspects of life: 1) quality of life and 2) the survival of humans and all other species on the planet. Quality of life is a very
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Education is failing. It’s heading for skid row. But maybe we can fix it. “Even though Canada performed very well in the 2018 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment)… scores have declined in all subjects,” the Fraser Institute reported four years later. If we care to fix it, and assuming we do, we need to
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The Good Ship Canada at 40 Million: Where Are We Headed? Congratulations, Canada! On June 16, right on time for Canada Day, you reached a population of 40 million. This is no mean feat for a country whose total fertility rate is 1.4 children per woman and has been below the replacement level of 2.1 since 1971, when its
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Editor’s note: When this op-ed was originally published in the print and digital versions of the Vancouver Sun in September 2019, it ignited significant controversy on social media. The Vancouver Sun subsequently deleted the article from its website and issued an apology. With permission of the author, in the interest of freedom of speech, it
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Government, Volkswagen, and Stellantis: Do the Jobs Justify the Cost? Two battery plants, Volkswagen and Stellantis, are vying for electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing dominance. The federal and provincial governments are promising large contributions to help build these plants. Volkswagen is building a new plant in St. Thomas, which is set to begin producing in
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NIMBY means Not In My Back Yard. It is often used in a derogatory sense for people who are opposed to a certain development because it would affect their own little neck of the woods. Instead of accepting a change affecting their neighbourhood for something that would presumably benefit the greater good, they selfishly oppose it
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