Canada’s Immigration System: An Invitation To Scammers

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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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New Leger Poll: Nearly Every Demographic In Canada Wants Lower Immigration

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Just several days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a reduction in the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers, Leger has released a new poll showing that most Canadians think immigration levels are too high. In fact, this attitude prevails among nearly every single demographic and subsection of respondents – a startling degree of common

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Trudeau’s Cut To The Foreign Worker Program Does Not Go Nearly Far Enough

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This morning, on the the second day of a three-day Liberal cabinet retreat, Justin Trudeau announced that his government intends to reduce the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers starting in September. Their slate of reforms will include restoring the policy of freezing temporary foreign worker visa approvals in areas where the unemployment rate is

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Remembering Barry Broadfoot And The Ten Lost Years

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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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$52.5 Billion: Understanding Canada’s Wasteful Electric Vehicle Subsidies

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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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Quebec’s Freeze On Foreign Worker Visas Is A Challenge To Trudeau

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At a press conference on Tuesday morning, Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced a six-month freeze on low-wage foreign worker visas in Montreal to limit pressure on housing and public services, as well as to protect the French language. While there are exemptions for the health, education, construction, agriculture, and food processing sectors, the measure is

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The Sheer Idiocy Of Fighting Ageing With Mass Immigration

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com). It is republished here with permission of the author. This version has been slightly abridged – read the full version here. In 2022 Canada’s population momentarily stopped ageing for the first time since 1971, driven by mass immigration policies. The median age of

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Business Groups Condemn Trudeau’s Modest Reduction In Foreign Workers

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A letter sent to three of Trudeau’s cabinet ministers on August 1st, signed by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, warns that Ottawa’s planned reduction in temporary immigration could have “catastrophic economic consequences” for the business sector. The letter was written by Nancy Healey, who holds a government post

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Smartphones Have No Place In Canadian Schools

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A Montreal man is launching a class-action lawsuit against several parent companies of major social media platforms, alleging that social media is designed to leverage dopamine – a neurotransmitter and hormone associated with pleasure (sometimes called the brain’s “reward centre”) – to entrap users into spending endless hours scrolling. It’s hard to know whether a

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