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Where is ‘reconciliation’ really taking us and is it compatible with our collective well-being?
Is mass immigration really the only solution to our demographic challenges? And what effect does it have on our sense of cohesion as a society?
Is one’s ethnic background such a determinant of one’s future that individual responsibility is no longer a thing?
What is the role of the education system and what do we do when it conflicts with what parents see as in the best interests of their children?
Are cultural issues really the antithesis of economic discourse, or are they, in fact, an essential aspect of any discussion aimed at a prosperous economic future?
Let’s explore these and many other questions in a genuinely curious way. Source
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Search ArticlesKate Marland & Sam Dagres: Feminism, progress, and the market’s grip on motherhood
In the latest episode of the Without Diminishment podcast, Deputy Editor Kate Marland speaks with contributor Sam Dagres about her article ‘Why Do We Send Our Kids to Jail?’ and the broader critique of feminism, progress, and market logic. The conversation explores how women’s work, daycare, schooling, contraception, and abortion have been shaped by economic incentives and cultural assumptions about personhood, productivity, and freedom.
Geoff Russ: The right road runs through Quebec
The Conservatives came up short in three by-elections on Monday. One in particular stands out. Chicoutimi—Le Fjord had been blue since 2018, held by Richard Martel, a famous and respected hockey coach who was born and raised locally. After Martel was appointed to the Senate by Mark Carney in July, the Conservative candidate selected to replace him fell to third place in the by-election.
Alexander Brown: ‘Terrain, terrain, pull up’
(A seaplane flying above the Port of Vancouver. Photographer: Ben Jackson.) The federal byelections were a clean sweep; B.C.’s provincial picture just as fraught. If, for ‘grassroots’-brand conservatism, ‘The road on which internet conjecture starts was broad and easy—the Coquihalla Highway of inflated crisis’, what say we now, from 5000 ft. above, of the mountainside that draws ever closer from the cockpit window?
Caroline Elliott: That’s it? ‘Free enterprise and nothing else’ will not fix B.C.
In British Columbia, the idea of a new ‘free enterprise’ party is being floated as an alternative to both the NDP and the Conservatives. My concerns with this approach go beyond the more commonly stated risk of vote-splitting. They come down to whether such a party would be equipped to reverse the deep and lasting damage the NDP has done to our province at a fundamental level.
Geoff Russ: Yes, Montreal is the great Canadian city
‘Among these fields is situated and seated the said town of Hochelaga, near to and adjoining a mountain…we named this mountain Mont-Royal’, wrote the explorer Jacques Cartier in 1535. The value one places on history as essential to a country’s present and future is one of the great divisions among civilised people, Canadians included. Another division peculiar to Canada is the fierce debate over whether Montreal or Toronto is superior, which may never truly die, and hopefully it does not.
Michael J. Ruttan-Stokes: Tradition, heritage, and the interpreters of Old Canada
(Boys Fishing, by Manly Edward MacDonald.) Born in the ghost village of Point Anne, near Belleville, Manly E. MacDonald (1889–1971) was known as the ‘Interpreter of Old Ontario’. The son of a Bay of Quinte farmer-fisherman, MacDonald left over 2,000 works that capture the beauty and spirit of local Canadians and their lifeways.
Michael Bonner: Liberalism cannot justify its own assumptions
(John Stuart Mill by George Frederick Watts, 1873.) Imagine that the elites of the old Soviet Union had known nothing about communism. What if they had never heard of Marx or Lenin and had known nothing of Das Kapitalor What Is to Be Done? Versions of such questions have been asked before, and they sound absurd. And yet, the same kind of absurdity may now be found in the West.
Jonathan Barazzutti: Crushing the campus consensus
(Graduates at the University of Toronto. Photo credit to Can Pac Swire.) The past decade has seen the cultural ascendancy of social progressivism within the cultural ecosystem of the West. This ascendancy has spread across the cultural landscape of Canada, including, most importantly, the academy. With this change has come a homogenisation of the views of academics, 88 per cent of whom vote for left-leaning parties according to a 2025 Fraser Institute report.
Caroline Elliott: The secret NDP plan to give away British Columbia's public land
In the latest episode of the Without Diminishment podcast, W.D. co-founders Alexander Brown and Caroline Elliott expose the NDP’s non-transparent ‘land back’ agenda. They discuss the controversial transfer of prime downtown Victoria real estate, the end of local municipal zoning, and the potential loss of more access to more provincial parks. Watch and subscribe to Without Diminishment on YouTube.
Geoff Russ: Out of the smoke, among ghosts
At the height of summer, Osoyoos looks like a theme park based on New Mexico or Arizona. You might call it Fauxrizona, with Pueblo-style, ageing accommodations like the ‘Spanish Fiesta Resort’ and a nearby theme park called ‘Rattlesnake Canyon’. Osoyoos is gathered around a dark blue lake, with palms and patios near the shore. The green of the vineyards is painted upon the ochre-coloured hills that surround the town.