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Rooming House Options In Regina

Last week the city of Regina held a public meeting about Rooming Houses in the city. The meeting is part of a wider process the council is going through to try to address the dramatic housing shortage the city faces. There have been concerns from some communities,...

Taxis’ Fare Road to Profit: Restricted supply has inflated value of vancouver licence to $800,000

Gary Tarantino owns arguably the most valuable taxi in Vancouver, in an industry already known for its breathtakingly high licence values. Tarantino’s Licence 70384 could easily command more than $1 million in a business where the average Vancouver taxi costs $800,000. That’s because he is the last holdout of independent taxi owners in an industry where all of the other 687 licences are held by the city’s four taxi companies.

Mr. Suzuki’s Baseless, Irresponsible Immigration Claims

Imagine there was a policy that could reduce global poverty, conserve natural resources and help alleviate the coming retirement crisis, all while also fostering domestic economic growth. You would have to be either misinformed or malicious to oppose this policy, right? Well, this policy exists, and it’s called immigration.

Ironically, “progressive” hero David Suzuki has come out in favour of reducing immigration levels, only to be met with opposition from Conservative Minister of Immigration, Jason Kenney, who defended the value of immigration to Canada.

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Canada Racist? Only its Government

Canada has always prided itself on being one of the most open and least racist countries in the world. This view may not have always been true, particularly with regard to our past immigration policies, which only became colour neutral in the 1960s. But since then,...

Murderous London is like old New York

It was James Q Wilson’s now legendary “broken windows” hypothesis which stated that when a neighbourhood, or a city, had become rundown and uncared-for – when its buildings and trains were covered in graffiti, its streets strewn with rubbish, and its youth allowed to indulge in flagrant displays of delinquent bravado – a climate was created in which serious crimes such as murder and robbery could run amok.

Public Education – a National Asset We can Exploit?

Manitoba and other Canadian provinces are working with international students and their governments to bring Canadian education to developing countries and other nations. PDF
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