In 2018, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) tested 240 samples of honey across the country. While 100% of Canadian honey samples were pure, nearly 22% of imported honey was cut with corn syrup, sugar cane, rice syrup, or beet sugar. Under Canadian law, honey is a standardized product, which cannot contain added sugars. Following […]
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“Our health is our most valuable asset.” Because access to healthcare is government controlled in Canada, Canadians are largely reliant on our government to protect this asset. Unfortunately, this Canadian asset and in thousands of cases life itself are being squandered by both the provincial and federal governments across Canada. Healthcare is under the jurisdiction
“A democracy cannot be both ignorant and free.” Thomas Jefferson. “Parliament and the public cannot hope to call the Government to account without an adequate knowledge of what is going on; nor can they hope to participate in the decision-making process and contribute their talents to the formation of policy and legislation if that process
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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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What’s up with the environmentally dangerous, depressing red paint? Canadians see enough red on the stock market, we didn’t ask to start seeing it on our roads too. New bike routes, road closures prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists, and streetside patios. If the government wages a war on cars, Torontonians will suffer. One simply cannot transport
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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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The debate which followed the accidental Parliamentary celebration of a 98-year-old veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS 14th Grenadier Division reveals a political class which is hopelessly immature. Conservative MPs, who happily applauded along with the rest, insinuated that the Liberal Party is sympathetic to the early 20th century German ideology of Nazism – a
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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“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness” – Alexis de Tocqueville I recently joined the local library’s 10am crew, literary loyalists who form a small crowd around the entrance before the grand opening. Near the front desk, a substantial number of books were displayed, “weeded” from shelves and available for
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