Dominion Review

18/06/2024

Riley Donovan: A school board in B.C. has removed Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird from the recommended reading list - apparently because it is a "white saviour trope".

This is just one example of a much larger wave of book bans depriving Canadian students of the joy of reading timeless literary classics.

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird will no lon ...

18/06/2024

Riley Donovan: When even bank economists are calling for immigration restriction, you know something is seriously wrong with Canada’s immigration policy.

When even bank economists are calling for immigration restriction, you know something is seriously wrong with Canada’s immigration policy. Published on Janu ...

18/06/2024

We are told by politicians, YIMBYs and the media that there is no alternative to densifying our cities. Is this true?

Brian Graff explores the issue in detail.

TINA! When I write “TINA!”, likely the first thought to enter any reader’s mind will be Tina Turner. Mind you, the title above would skew things even more. ...

17/06/2024

People usually blame leaders for a bad economy and inflation. So, are Biden and Trudeau responsible for high prices?

Brian Graff explores this issue in depth.

Most of us have heard the term “It’s the economy, stupid!". It actually comes from a handmade sign that Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist James Carvil ...

15/06/2024

Agnes Macphail, a farmer and teacher, was the first woman to become an MP in 1921.

15/06/2024

More than 3,000 nurses, nicknamed “Bluebirds,” served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps - 2,500 of them overseas.

15/06/2024

A Dominion of Canada $1 bill in 1923. It shows King George V, who assigned Canada’s national colours - white and red.

15/06/2024

Laura Secord was a Canadian heroine during the War of 1812.

She is known for having walked 20 miles out of American-occupied territory in 1813 to warn British forces of an impending American attack.

She is recognized as an icon of Canadian patriotism to this day.

15/06/2024

Sir Donald A. Smith driving the last spike to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway -November 7th, 1885

13/06/2024

Edmund Greggains: In a shameless instance of pandering, Danielle Smith claimed Sikhs "quite literally built the foundations" of Alberta in the early 1900s.

In 1911, there were 23 Sikhs in Alberta - 0.01% of the population.

Brampton, Ontario, is a particularly striking example of the demographic changes brought about by large-scale immigration to Canada in the past several deca ...

13/06/2024

Riley Donovan: The B.C. NDP's move to scrap letter grades from K-9 is driven by ideology, not evidence - and will lead to a serious decline in academic standards.

Starting in the 2023-2024 school year, students from kindergarten to Grade 9 in British Columbia schools will no longer receive letter grades. Instead, ther ...

13/06/2024

A teacher and her pupils in front of a log school house.

British Columbia, 1890s

13/06/2024

Grain elevator in the village of Cadillac, Saskatchewan (2016 population: 92).

13/06/2024

10/06/2024

Who can blame them? That's an important debate😁

10/06/2024

Canada often seems to be at a crossroads, and we certainly seem to be at one now.

Brian Graff looks back at business guru Michael Porter’s 1991 report “Canada at the Crossroads: The Reality of a New Competitive Environment” to see if it is relevant today.

Blues legend Robert Johnson wrote and recorded the song “Crossroads” (Cross Road Blues) – the song he is most famous for and which many people likely know f ...

08/06/2024

Crowsnest Mountain, Alberta.

07/06/2024

Kendall Stavast: The Trudeau government's policy of unsustainable immigration-driven population growth is leading to the densification of quiet single-family neighbourhoods in cities and towns across Canada.

There is nowhere in Canada where you can escape the effects of mass immigration into our country. Everything has become more expensive as an explosion in po ...

07/06/2024

The pronghorn antelope, which roam the Great Plains and can be found in Southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta, is the fastest land animal in North America!

06/06/2024

Riley Donovan: The Trudeau government's proposal to offer a "pathway to citizenship" to illegal immigrants would turn Canada into a magnet for illegal immigration from around the world.

Canada’s population grew by 825,000 in 2022, and then by 1.2 million in 2023, because of mass immigration. To find another year when our population grew by ...

06/06/2024

Brian Graff: When the Canadian Constitution was being repatriated over 40 years ago, there were concerns that the Charter would give too much power to our courts.

This is turning out to be true.

I grew up in Don Mills in the 1960s and 1970s, and frankly I feel lucky to have gone to school in those years, and not today. The education I got through th ...