In January, I was interviewed by independent filmmaker Sangita Iyer of Mettle Films for a two-part documentary on mass immigration. Part One has now been released. Some of my thoughts were included – along with those of other commentators you may kno...
A recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute reveals that, despite the Trudeau government’s immigration cut, 62% of Canadians still think immigration levels are too high. This majority includes 6...
Canada’s current number one artist is Kent Monkman, a half-Indigenous artist from Ontario. He is known for making provocative paintings about the Indigenous experience in Canada. The purpose of Kent Monkman’s work is diverse. Sometimes, it is to remi...
Canada has slashed permanent resident admissions by 21%, slammed down caps on the international student and foreign worker streams, and bolstered various restrictions across the board. While our immigration rate is still disproportionately high compa...
Wild salmon populations on Canada’s West Coast have been in steady decline for over a century. The latest – and perhaps most devastating – disrupter is open-net pen farming of Atlantic salmon. While the east coast of Vancouver Island saw fish farms c...
I haven’t watched The Simpsons for a long time, but one of my favourite episodes was “Homer the Great” from the sixth season, where Homer joins an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. Homer ends up becoming the leader of the Stonecutter...
A few years ago, there was a term sometimes applied to the United States: The Indispensable Nation. The problem in 2025, with Trump’s return to power, is that Canada and our other allies might have to find a way to make the US dispensable – or at lea...
In October, the Trudeau government buckled to rising anger over skyrocketing immigration levels and slashed permanent resident admissions while keeping in place previous restrictions on foreign worker and international student numbers. The federal go...
For Canadians, the years 1963 and 2025 already seem to have a lot in common. In both years, there were federal elections in April that saw the Liberals win with a new Prime Minister sworn in who represented change (though in 2025, the new PM was swor...
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on May 24th, 2025. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. The Government of Canada’s strategic f...