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Monthly Archives: March 2017

Is “the Economy” a Good Reason for Immigration?

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:March 8, 2017
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More on the immigration question from The Trouble With Canada …Still! (2010) Many argue that because we have an aging society, a changing ratio of retirees to workers, and falling fertility rates, we need lots of immigrants or the economy…
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A Warming Message from an Old Friend

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:March 5, 2017
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I just received a phone call my first true friend, who lives in Port Hope, and whom I met on my first day as a new-boy at boarding school at age 10. In my graduating year, about 17 yrs old,…
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Immigration and Democracy

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:March 4, 2017
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In the beginning, when Trudeau’s government turned toward multiculturalism as yet another Statist innovation, the question: Does it matter, or not, where immigrants come from? gave a sense of the tension between Canada’s smug elite opinion and the popular wisdom…
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On the Silliness of “Safe Spaces”

  • Post author:William Gairdner
  • Post published:March 2, 2017
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Visitors will enjoy this clip of Van Jones in discussion about “Safe Spaces” at the University of Chicago. My comments follow it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zms3EqGbFOk&t=23s ***************…
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A Paradox: Deep Culture Must Always Be Illiberal

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  • Post published:March 1, 2017
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For thousands of years, rulers, kingdoms, and States – governments large and small – have understood very well how human social-bonding works (affiliation to the maximum number of common cultural denominators). So they have strived to ensure their people share…
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