↩ Accueil

Vue lecture

‘Work, then go home forever’: Inside the thoughts of the temporary foreign worker program

This week, the Conservatives called on the federal government to permanently dismantle the temporary foreign worker program, saying that it’s become a system that undermines Canadian jobs. In this, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was quickly joined by B.C. Premier David Eby, who said Thursday it should be “cancelled or significantly reformed.” Read More
  •  

Opinion: Campaign to bar Israeli athletes from Davis Cup is un-Canadian

Throughout history, and across the ideological spectrum, terrorists, extremists and racists — often under the guise of some righteous campaign or cause — have sought to suppress open Jewish life and identity. One of the spaces they’ve repeatedly targeted is international sport — an arena meant to harness the universal language of athletic competition, sportsmanship, equality, team building, and excellence. Sadly, this trend is once again rearing its ugly head in Halifax, where some are calling for Tennis Canada to bar Israel from participating in the Davis Cup later this month. For a variety of reasons, these calls should be treated as anti-Canadian, anti-sport, and of course, antisemitic. Read More
  •  

Conrad Black: The derangement over Trump marches on

Andrew Coyne is an intelligent man and a victim of the recently discovered mental affliction which is caused by the lawful elevation of Donald J. Trump to the office of President of the United States twice. Unfortunately, Andrew’s column in the Globe and Mail on Aug. 29 is demented rubbish. He wrote that “the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.” He accuses Trump of accumulating powers “illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution.” He cites the appropriately approved addition of a ballroom to the White House as indicative of his determination to remain there after the end of his term, and suggested he might simply remain in the White House, either having taken it upon himself to cancel the 2028 presidential election, or to allow it to proceed and ignore its results, both of which he would be able to do, despite the post-Roosevelt prohibition of a third term as president, because the senior officials of the armed forces at that point will be his appointees. He concludes: “That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt.” It is well-established that the U.S. has a non-political military. Read More
  •  

Jamie Sarkonak: The TFW program came for youth jobs. Now Poilievre is coming for it

The “immigrants are taking our jobs” line used to be dismissed as a xenophobic trope, stigmatized in Canadian politics with such intensity that it lulled the population into a decade-plus sleep even as wages stagnated. But it’s turned out to be completely true — and only the Conservatives are coming up with solutions to the problem. Read More
  •  

André Pratte: Quebec prayer ban would render freedom of religion meaningless  

The government of Quebec announced last week that it would soon introduce legislation to ban prayers in public spaces. "The proliferation of prayers in the street is a serious and sensitive issue in Quebec," said Jean-François Roberge, the minister responsible for secularism. The announcement comes a few weeks after a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators held a public prayer in front of Montreal’s most famous Catholic Church, the Notre-Dame Basilica in old Montreal.   Read More
  •  

Michael Murphy: Britain now exists to protect gender dogmas against all else

Dystopian fiction often brushes over the most chilling part of the road to madness, which is the road itself. Authors hint at some great calamity or war that sets things in motion, and describe in vivid detail the hulking bureaucracies that grind all courage or curiosity from human beings. But rarely do they place readers in the pot with the frog, watching freedoms dissolve one by one. Read More
  •  

Matthew Lau: The unrelenting growth of Canada’s wealth-destroying public service

The federal government spent $71.1 billion on personnel costs in fiscal year 2024-25, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has estimated, up from $69.6 billion the year before. Unfortunately, even though the number of public service jobs fell by about three per cent in 2025, the count of full-time equivalents, which accounts for whether those jobs were full-time or part-time, continued to grow, helping drive the cost increase. And despite the slight decline in the count of public servants in 2025, last year still capped off a decade of significant growth: from 257,034 in 2015, the federal public service expanded by more than 100,000, or over 39 per cent, to 357,965 by 2025. Read More
  •  

Leslie Roberts: Concordia’s rabidly anti-Israel student union must be dissolved

It’s time to disband the Concordia Student Union. This year’s CSU student handbook doesn’t look like a guide to academic life. It looks like a political manifesto. Plastered with slogans such as “Stop Genocide” and “Free Palestine,” it positions Concordia not as a university for all students, but as a staging ground for militant activism. For Jewish students, the message is unmistakable: their presence and perspectives are unwelcome. Read More
  •