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By Mata Press Service Canadian families are handing over a larger share of their income to governments than they spend keeping a roof over their heads, putting food on the table and buying clothes, according to a new analysis of the country's tax burden. The Fraser Institute's 2026 Canadian Consumer Tax Index estimates that the average Canadian family earned $121,111 in 2025 and paid $50,721 in…
Commentary By Franco Terrazzano Taxpayers shell out about $200 million a year on bonuses for government executives, even as departments routinely fail to hit their own targets In the real world, bonuses happen when you do a good job or your organization has a great year. In Ottawa, bonuses reward D- performances, bailouts and billion-dollar losses with taxpayers’ money. Let’s start with Canada…
Commentary By Sylvain Charlebois Canada’s chicken market is sending a signal Ottawa can no longer afford to ignore: supply is not keeping pace with demand. Chicken Farmers of Canada reported recently that production during the first four months of 2026 was 5.6 per cent higher than during the same period last year. That sounds reassuring. But the same organization also acknowledged that…
By Mata Press Service Canada’s campaign to reduce international student numbers is rippling beyond colleges and universities, with the country’s language education sector reporting another sharp drop in foreign enrolment. A new annual survey by Languages Canada found its member programs enrolled 81,636 students in 2025, down 13 per cent from a year earlier among schools reporting in both years.…
By Catherine Sas, K.C. Special to The Post As immigration lawyers, we see many of our clients repeating mistakes and one of the most common is to not keep a full copy of their complete immigration application history. It is a common misconception amongst the majority of our clients that their immigration representative keeps copies of all of their immigration records so that they don’t have to.…
Commentary By Sylvain Charlebois Every summer, Canadians are reminded that fresh produce, while essential to a healthy diet, can also pose food safety risks. This year’s Cyclospora outbreak in the United States has already sickened at least 1,644 people, making it one of the largest in recent memory. Yet despite its scale, investigators have not conclusively identified the source. The U.S. Food…
By Mata Press Service When Super Typhoon Rai tore across Batasan Island in the central Philippines in December 2021, Trixy Elle fled her home with her husband, two children and father as the storm closed in. The family waded through rising water, holding tightly to one another as winds equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane battered the island. By the next morning, their home was gone. The disaster,…
Ask what a government should do when a housing market finally begins to correct, when prices soften and buyers finally regain bargaining power. The answer is simple. Let it happen. British Columbia’s premier has chosen the opposite. David Eby, with Prime Minister Mark Carney beside him, proposes to buy more than 2,200 condominiums that private developers built and cannot sell, then convert them to…
Commentary By David Leis Canada’s housing crisis wasn’t inevitable. It was built one government decision at a time It is tempting to view Canada’s housing crisis as the inevitable result of population growth, immigration, global investment and higher interest rates. Those factors matter but do not explain why some Canadian cities remain comparatively affordable while others have become among the…
By Mata Press Service When Rupinder Gill immigrated to Canada, she imagined raising three children, much like the family she had grown up in India. Today, the Surrey resident has one child and says the rising cost of housing, groceries and childcare has forced her family to reconsider whether they can afford another. “We always thought we would have a bigger family, but every year the cost of…
