Immigration – MSM’s blind spot
Despite ample evidence of the grave harms on multiple fronts caused by excessive immigration, MSM continues to offer long-discredited arguments against reducing the intake of international students.
A decade late & a million dollars short
What our immigration policy needs is comprehensive reform. Instead, we are getting piecemeal changes of a kneejerk nature, and self-congratulatory messaging from the Immigration Minister.
The perils of multiculturalism
The eruption of religious tensions in Brampton, while extremely worrying, is merely the inevitable consequence of our deeply flawed concept – and even more deeply flawed practice – of multiculturalism.
Underground Opinions
As the public debate in the wake of the anti-racism wave sweeps through Canada and other countries, it revived, perhaps briefly, an old issue. Over a dozen years ago, CBC…
Windward Islands
A friend of mine who runs a Facebook discussion group shared my recent article on the issue of defunding police departments to the group’s page. The post elicited very few…
The Camel Critics
CHILDHOOD LESSONS From my days in primary school, I remember one particular poem in our curriculum for Gujarati Language Studies. It was written by Dalpat Ram, a reformist poet in…
Unknown Devils
Social media is often called an echo chamber, and with good reason. However, in reality it is just another tool at our disposal; it is up to our choice how…
Protecting The Protectors
The anti-racism protests that started in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in the US have gone off on two opposing tangents. On one…
Moms Know Best
One of the most remarkable features of the debate in Canada around racism is the near-total absence of solutions, or even proposed solutions. Given how old this issue is, this…
A Race Ahead Of Us
A WATCHFUL EYE On the day I landed in Nairobi, I learned that the ‘work permit’ that had been sent to me was sufficient only to allow me to enter…