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The Union of Concerned Scientists Has Been Captured by the Left
A factual assessment In 1992 — coincidentally the same year that Population Institute Canada was founded — the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a nonprofit science advocacy organization, issued a...
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Sultan shocks climate community with reality-based question
Did the emperor just point out that the science has no clothes? One week before the start of COP28, the latest UN climate conference that ran from November 28 to December 12, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber of...
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Recent Polls Show that Canadians Are Getting Exactly What They Don’t Want
Canadians are frequently told that continuous growth is just what their country needs. But when surveyed, they have never expressed a craving for it. They want safe communities, access to nature,...
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Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto: A nonviable solution to a misidentified...
An obscure Japanese philosophy professor produces a surprise best seller, urging the world to slow down and shrink consumption via economic “degrowth.” Population Institute Canada’s president provides...
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YIMBY: An Alchemy to Turn Lead into Gold
NIMBY: selfish parochialism or rational self-interest? The term “NIMBY” (Not In My Back Yard) refers to the opposition by local residents to any new infrastructure project, such as a housing...
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Will the State, Once Again, take an Interest in the Bedrooms of the Nation?
“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau famously said in 1967 while discussing his omnibus bill with reporters, which included changes to the criminal...
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The Century Initiative: a Blueprint for a Bigger, Broken Canada
Why is growth in your city exploding? Most Canadians have probably never heard of the Century Initiative. It operates behind the scenes and has received a measure of public scrutiny only in the past...
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Canada’s Immigration System: An Invitation to Scammers
Immigrants share stories from their community Not long ago, I was contacted by an immigrant from a developing country that I’ll call “Pangea” who had seen one of my articles republished on a Canadian...
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We report on the negative human and environmental consequences of population growth, whether it occurs by natural increase or through immigration.
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The Lie that Won’t Die: Immigration Is the Solution for Canada’s Aging...
In 2001, I attended some sessions at a demographic conference in Ottawa. I was astonished when a speaker from Statistics Canada said that immigration had essentially no impact on the Canadian age...
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