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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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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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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When I go on X, or Twitter, or Ex-Twitter or X-Twitter, my feed is often full of ideological people pushing the idea that Land Value Taxes (LVTs) are the solution to many of the problems of modern life, and the housing crisis in particular. I don’t agree, and I find these people naïve. The idea
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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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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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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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An overreliance on foreign workers “drives down wages and displaces Canadian workers”. No, that’s not a quote from an op-ed in the National Post or Dominion Review. That was written by Justin Trudeau! Here’s the full quote, from his op-ed published in the Toronto Star in 2014: “Since taking office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and
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In the summer of my 15th year, I stepped outside my house on a small fenced-off acreage on the outskirts of a country town in Alberta to find a cow standing in my front yard. Some may not find such a thing to be odd in a rural community – what made it odd to
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Yesterday, I tweeted about an amendment to the Immigration and Refugees Protection Act (IRPA) that would create a federal path to permanent residency for low-skill foreign workers. This change would apply to foreign workers with experience and training that falls under the Training, Education, Experience and Responsibilities (TEER) levels 4 and 5. TEER 4 jobs
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