Contemporary discourse is saturated with one word: “crisis”. It is applied to every problem we encounter. If you google the term, you will be informed that there is a mental health crisis, a climate crisis, an office vacancy crisis, a digital addiction crisis, a Canadian journalism crisis, an American border crisis, a social media crisis, […]
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Justin Trudeau on the Ropes: Governing in Troubled Times. Paul Wells. Sutherland House, 2024. Donovan Rating: Highly recommend It has been aptly remarked that a non-fiction book is an essay which has gone on too long. While I greatly enjoyed Samuel Huntingdon’s 368-page Clash of Civilizations, his brilliant thesis was first written as a much
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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. In an opinion piece post in the February 7th, 2024 issue of the Westerly News, Bruce W. Uzelman nailed the negative economic consequences of mass immigration and the resulting population surge. The population
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Walking through the charming historic town of Ladysmith, I spied a pamphlet declaring that “Canadian pensions are too low!”. I was shocked to learn that the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP), Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), and Old Age Security (OAS) add up to a paltry $18,000 to $20,000 per year. This pocket literature was created by
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I just got a 3-month free subscription to Apple TV after a few years away from having it. After watching the last season of Ted Lasso, the next thing I watched was Masters of the Air. It is the follow up series to “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific”, and follows the actual experiences of
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Every year, the World Happiness Report tracks self-reported well-being around the world. The latest results are in, and I must report that all is not cheery in our northern half of North America. Canada is becoming a nation of truly morose citizens. And before you blame the weather, the four happiest countries are Finland, Denmark,
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At a news conference on April 2nd, Justin Trudeau reluctantly departed his warm and cozy internal world of ideological certainty, and briefly entered the gritty and unpleasant land of consensus reality. Our Prime Minister finally stopped denying the drop-dead obvious, and admitted that the number of foreign workers and international students on our soil “has
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Brian Graff’s Substack: https://briangraff.substack.com/ Urban planning and housing affordability have risen near the top of domestic political issues in the last few years in both Canada and the US. There has been a corresponding rise in neoliberal YIMBYism and calls for liberalizing zoning and other regulation related
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There are a number of diagnosed personality disorders, covering a broad range of traits, that contribute to social toxicity. They are grouped into three categories – clusters A, B, and C, with cluster B disorders being the most destructive. Cluster B includes the psychopaths, malignant narcissists and machiavellian types. A common term applied to this
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In an interview with the New York Times shortly after being elected in 2015, Justin Trudeau described Canada as a “post-national state” with “no core identity, no mainstream”. Most people considered this a largely meaningless, if somewhat oddly phrased comment from a man still trying to find his footing in Canada’s highest office. Last week,
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