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Canada’s immigration policies are driving up housing costs
It’s becoming clearer that the federal Liberal government’s strategy to nearly double the number of immigrants admitted to Canada each year without making the necessary investments to support them is straining our housing markets and health-care system.
Five things we learned this week when McKinsey came to Ottawa
Which wine for which sandwich? A guide for this go-to pairing
The ‘just transition’ won’t be just if it guts our middle class
Barton set to appear at committee as it studies eye-popping consultant contracts
Quebec slaps new taxes on vapes after drop in tobacco tax revenue
Charles Sousa enters parliament as a different kind of Trudeau Liberal
Meet the ‘anti-establishment’ group changing the conversation in the Canadian legal world
Embattled Royal BC Museum gives decolonization push a breather as it seeks community consultation
How the Federal Reserve broke the American economy: Investigative journalist Christopher Leonard on the risks of quantitative easing
‘Combative but still substantive’: Strategist Ginny Roth on why TikTok fame isn’t enough to attract young voters
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Proof Point: Canadians are still clinging to pandemic savings
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Building the Free and Open Indo-Pacific with like-minded partners: A view from Japan
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Understanding Ontario’s ODSP & MAID programs
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The Australian Experience With Resources, Infrastructure Corridors and Supply Chains
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The CBC and Ontario mandate letters dispute is a distraction from bigger access to information problems
The dispute over the CBC’s access to the Ford government’s mandate letters to its new cabinet in 2018 is before the Supreme Court. But regardless of the outcome, it will not fix our broken access to information system whose problems go much deeper.
Canada deserves to be relegated from the G7
This first edition of The Hub’s monthly transatlantic diary touches on Rishi Sunak’s impossible task as Tory leader, Canada’s impressively underfunded and underperforming military, and the news of Frasier’s return to television.
The rule of law matters too: Lessons from the Freedom Convoy, one year later
Protests are a legitimate part of democratic life. However, there are limits to what anyone will or should accept. The idea that people have the right to cosplay as revolutionaries and occupy a city indefinitely is utter nonsense.
Our public discourse will suffer until our civic culture improves
If we want to have productive debates about the most effective public policy, then we must escape our tendency for binary thinking along polarized lines. Let’s consider how to best equip youth to be better citizens and improve our civic culture in the long run.
Jordan Peterson is too big to be silenced by the naysayers and regulators—but what about the rest of us?
Despite the many attempts to do so, Jordan Peterson’s message will not be stifled, even when institutional regulators attempt to rein him in. We should worry for the rest of us, though, who do not have the same platform or support to resist progressivism’s pervasive reach.
