Gulf States Buying Canadian Residency Spots

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Canada’s doctor shortage, largely driven by population growth through immigration, is becoming increasingly acute. This situation is being exacerbated by the foreign visa trainee program, which allows medical schools to allocate residency spots to foreign nationals. Doctors are required to compete for scarce residency spots before being licensed to practice. Because Canadian medical schools prioritize […]

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Why Affordable Housing Policies Have Failed

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Canada now plays host to 807,750 foreign students, 770,000 temporary workers, and 500,000 new immigrants being admitted annually. As a group, they represent mass immigration. Most of these people settle and are concentrated in a few parts of Canada, nowhere more so than southern Ontario and southern BC. Their numbers are rising annually and the 500,000 new

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Is the Environmental Movement Killing Itself with Social Justice?

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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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Canada’s Immigration Policy: Circular Reasoning, Bafflegab, and BS

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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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Canadian Public Opinion Shifts Towards Immigration Restriction

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A Nanos poll for the Globe and Mail found that 53% of Canadians want the federal government to accept fewer immigrants than the projected 2023 target of 465,000 permanent residents. This is a rise of almost 20 percentage points since March, when only 34% of respondents wanted lower immigration. Just over a third of respondents

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