What Research Shows About Canada’s Falling Fertility Rate

What Research Shows About Canada’s Falling Fertility Rate

Canada’s families have been shrinking for decades, and we did not arrive at a historic low fertility rate overnight. When birth rates decline year after year, as has been the case in Canada, they reveal something deeper about our society.

As new Cardus research has shown, the decline in fertility is not simply about people wanting fewer children, but Canadians struggling to have the children they say they would like to have. This reflects a complex interplay between economic and social realities. As Canadians consider future family life, they worry about affordability, stable housing, finances, and the tensions between having children and achieving other life goals. These challenges not only affect fertility rates but also the well-being of parents and would-be parents.

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Do the Math: Why Europe May Not Pull Through

Do the Math: Why Europe May Not Pull Through

Europe as we have known it for centuries — a civilization founded on a native majority population, a common culture, industrial prosperity, and a certain idea of liberty and property — appears destined to disappear.

This will happen not in some spectacular cataclysm, but through a slow, inexorable erosion, made inevitable by structural trends now too powerful to be reversed in the time it would take to stop it.

Even if, in the years ahead, several European countries bring to power so-called “right-wing” coalitions that have never yet governed, this can no longer substantially alter Europe’s collective destiny. The problem is no longer merely political; it is demographic, energetic, economic, and institutional. These four processes interlock and reinforce one another in a sinister yet terribly efficient mechanism.


Speaking as a Canadian whose own country has begun to mirror Europe annexation by the US has become a more than reasonable proposition.

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Is Canada Already the 51st State?

Is Canada Already the 51st State?

Canadians have had two main reactions to President Trump’s trade wars and 51st-state threats. Collectively, we’ve responded to them like a declaration of war, as though it demanded nothing less than the mobilization of our entire society to confront the threat of a hostile foreign power. We watch Doug Ford dump a bottle of Crown Royal onto the ground, like the Boston Tea Party in reverse. We commit to spending hundreds of billions to renovate our military capabilities, wary that rhetorical threats of annexation might one day become real. Individually, we’ve experienced this moment more like a divorce. We throw out their things, cancel our vacations. We vow to buy only from ourselves, the economic equivalent of belatedly opening our own bank account. We create an entire movement around the idea of developing sharper elbows. We elect a prime minister who we hope will be the antithesis of Donald Trump: intelligent and boring. With our prudent, even-tempered financial mastermind at the helm, we tell ourselves that everything will be okay. 

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Canada Post paid $30.8 million in bonuses despite $1.57 billion loss

Canada Post paid $30.8 million in bonuses despite $1.57 billion loss

Canada Post paid nearly $31 million in bonuses to managers last year despite posting a record $1.57-billion loss and warning Parliament the Crown corporation was on the verge of insolvency.

Blacklock’s Reporter says financial records tabled before the House of Commons government operations committee show Canada Post distributed $30.8 million in at-risk performance pay to 2,377 management employees in 2025, including 417 executives.

(Incognito)

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Shopify president fears for future of Jews in Canada as families contemplate what was ‘unthinkable five years ago’

Shopify president fears for future of Jews in Canada as families contemplate what was ‘unthinkable five years ago’

The president of Canada’s biggest tech company says antisemitism has been “normalized under the thinnest veil of advocacy,” and many members of the Jewish community are thinking about their future in Canada.

Harley Finkelstein was confronted, again, by an aggressive protester at Montreal’s Startupfest on Wednesday, the third time in two years he has been aggressively challenged in public for his support of Israel.

Mass immigration will make it very difficult to reverse this situation.

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Foreign migrant living illegally in Canada eligible for Ontario welfare, tribunal rules

Foreign migrant living illegally in Canada eligible for Ontario welfare, tribunal rules

Ontario must pay social assistance benefits to a foreign migrant living illegally in Canada a tribunal has ruled in a case revealing that welfare intake workers did not conduct an immigration check of the applicant to avoid jeopardizing his ability to remain in Canada.

The Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal heard an appeal by the man who declared he had come to Canada in 1997 on a temporary work permit. Although his permit expired after four years, he never left.

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Mark Carney won’t let Donald Trump see him sweat, but it comes at a cost

Mark Carney won’t let Donald Trump see him sweat, but it comes at a cost

Watch Mark Carney, not long ago thought to be a political novice, work a press scrum. We’re now used to the half-beat pause before the prime minister answers, the banker’s habit of restating the question in duller language, draining it of drama, and the refusal, almost physical, to take the bait.

That composure can come across as a personality quirk but it’s more likely a construction. This week, a remarkable two-part Wall Street Journal (WSJ) investigation shows us what it was built to withstand.

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Man arrested after telling Muslim family to “get the f— out of the country” at Halifax Costco

Man arrested after telling Muslim family to “get the f— out of the country” at Halifax Costco

A Halifax man has been arrested and charged following a confrontation at a Bayers Lake Costco Saturday, that police are investigating as a hate-motivated incident.

The arrest comes after a video showing the man allegedly directing “anti-Muslim” remarks toward a Muslim family went viral online.


Thank God they weren’t raped or murdered or sold as sex slaves like in Muslim countries.

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Geoff Russ: Canadian voters are aging out of mainstream conservatism

Geoff Russ: Canadian voters are aging out of mainstream conservatism

The Conservative Party faces the problem of a changing country, not a change in ethnic diversity or gender identity, but a change in age brackets. In fact, the electorate is aging out of their preferred conservatism, and they are not getting any younger.

In this changed country, appeals to tax cuts and smaller government simply do not have the attraction they once did. Dependence on the state has grown. Part of that dependence stems from the outsized expansion of the public service since 2015, but that is not the main culprit. The real culprit is the growing share of the population made up of retirees and pensioners.

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Carney’s Davos speech written at 4 a.m., Trump’s volatile call with Trudeau, and other things we learned from a WSJ article

Carney’s Davos speech written at 4 a.m., Trump’s volatile call with Trudeau, and other things we learned from a WSJ article

This week, the Wall Street Journal published a two-part series, with the first part titled “There Is No Going Back: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America.” While it looked at the general situation in Europe, the second was all about Canada’s role, and specifically that of Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Its headline was “The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away From the U.S.,” with the subhead: “Facing threats from Trump, Mark Carney emerged as a central figure in a project to reshape the Western alliance.”


Parts 1 and 2 linked below.

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Three Canadians named in international crackdown on ‘thugs’ running Indian prison-based crime group

Three Canadians named in international crackdown on ‘thugs’ running Indian prison-based crime group

Three arrests have been made in Canada as part of a sweeping international crackdown on an organized crime group — one U.S. authorities say was linked to the killing of a B.C. Sikh activist, a crime that sparked an international uproar.

The Lawrence Bishnoi group was hit with a combined 24 arrests during what authorities called “Operation Hard Ball,” based in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, authorities announced on Tuesday.

Some of the alleged crimes involved shipping drugs into Ontario and the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency have identified Peel region alongside B.C. as primary hubs for Bishnoi’s violence.


Another mess our so called elites created.

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BURTON: Who really built Canada?

BURTON: Who really built Canada?

Few subjects in Canada generate more passion than the question of who built this country. Unfortunately, the discussion often begins with conclusions rather than evidence. Political advocacy, media narratives, educational institutions, and activist organizations frequently present simplified versions of history that emphasize one set of contributions while minimizing another. The result is not greater understanding but greater division.

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