Poilievre’s Surreal Housing Plan and Canada’s Immigration Taboo

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Taboos have consequences. In India, Hindu national and state governments have introduced increasingly strict laws prohibiting the slaughter of cows, honouring Hinduism’s taboo against eating beef. The results are chaotic. Business Insider recently reported that the country has 5 million stray cows, which roam around “eating garbage, causing car accidents, attacking people, and spreading disease”. […]

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Blatantly Oblivious to the Blindingly Obvious

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Canada’s Housing Crisis: Who’s Running the Show – and for Whom? The most basic, fundamental concept in economics is “supply and demand.” Even someone who has never cracked open a textbook on economics is likely familiar with the term. Our political leaders would be conversant in economic theories and our financial leaders are presumably experts.

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Labour shortage: Time to Embrace the Horror

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The Black Plague killed nearly 50% of the population of England.  As the population recovered, many impacts of the disaster faded.  However one social structural change, the doubling of real wages for labourers, was permanent.  Why? The shortage of peasant labor to meet landowner demand plus the fallowing of the least productive fields increased productivity

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The Environmental Dogs Bark But The Growth Caravan Moves On

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Ignoring the Fundamental Issue Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb And don’t go near the water. This anonymous little poem comes to my mind when I read about the advocacy efforts of various anti-sprawl and environmental groups. The obvious absurdity of the poem

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Immigration and Population in the Corporate Media

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A November 29, 2022 Globe and Mail article is representative of a slew of articles appearing recently in the Canadian MSM nibbling around the mass immigration issue now that immigration levels have been raised from disastrous to ludicrous. Media corporations have continuously pushed for higher levels of immigration over the past 5 decades but in

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