“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people." — Naturalist, Broadcaster and Honorary PIC Patron Sir David Attenborough populationinstitutecanada.ca…

Short and (maybe not so) sweet: Gad Saad tells Sean Hannity what the Canadian tax burden is. He’s talking about Quebec, and provincial and consumption taxes vary a giant across provinces, but there’s no escaping a big tax burden anywhere. And, despite that, Canada is dead last among the G7 in terms of per capita output. Are we doing something wrong? youtube.com/shorts/SnGHJDEyH…

British historian Simon Schama slammed US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s D-Day speech in France as “a special kind of loathsomeness.” Hegseth contrasted the Allied landing on June Beach in Normandy, France, with the mass arrival of illegals in small boats and asked, “When will European capitals do something about that invasion?” At the same time, Schama dismissed concerns about mass immigration and denigrated those who hold them. “As if the little people's rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war against the 3rd Reich…” Interestingly, Schama was teamed up with our newly minted Governor General Louis Arbour in favour of the resolution, “Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free,” in the Munk Debate of April 1, 2016. They lost to Mark Steyn and Nigel Farage who opposed the resolution and argued for more restrictive immigration policies. Before the debate, 77% of the audience agreed with the resolution and 23% disagreed. After the debate, it was 55% for and 45% against, a shift of 22 points to the Con side. yahoo.com/news/politics/arti…

A recent study published in Nature says that financial markets undereste the economic risks of biodiversity loss, potentially exposing countries to sovereign debt crises and higher borrowing costs. Failing to incorporate environmental degradation leaves $83 trillion of global assets vulnerable to mispricing. Biodiversity losses included wild pollinators, marine fisheries and tropical forests. As these and other losses undermine economic performance, it becomes harder for countries to service their debt, raising borrowing costs and fiscal strain. The additional debt servicing ​costs would represent almost three-quarters of global annual overseas development aid. The authors urged regulators, central banks and rating agencies to integrate nature-related risks into financial models, saying the cost of protecting biodiversity is far lower than the economic consequences of ⁠its loss. reuters.com/legal/litigation…

A majority of Canadians are deeply unhappy with their country’s much-vaunted healthcare system. Not a surprise when 5.9 million adults do not have a family doctor or primary care team. A recent Nanos poll shows that 91% of Canadians want to see immediate and extensive changes to healthcare and 70% are worried or frustrated by existing conditions. Just 14% think healthcare is moving in the right direction and only 12% say they were hopeful. All of which reflects an overstressed healthcare system, which is part of the flock of chickens coming home to roost from Canada’s deliberately driven population growth that started in 1990 with Brian Mulroney and was turbocharged by Justin Trudeau. Per capita hospital beds are one indicator, falling from 6.9 per 1000 people in 1976 to 2.6 per 1000 people in 2020. And those numbers are from before the out-of-control immigration of 2022 and 2023, during each of which over one million newcomers (permanent and non-permanent residents) were brought to Canada. nanos.co/why-canadians-want-…

Today Canada gets a new governor general, Louise Arbour. When Prime Minister Carney appointed her in early May, he said Canada’s history, institutions, and enduring traditions matter more than ever. However, the traditional changing of the guard at Rideau Hall, the governor general’s residence, was cancelled last year. Streets, schools, universities, public squares, and buildings are being renamed because the people they honoured don’t meet all the specs of today’s politically sensitive standards. Historical plaques are being removed from national parks for the same reason. Even Canada’s founder, Sir John A. Macdonald, is being cancelled, including at the law school that once bore his name. Macdonald Hall of Queens University in Kingston, where Macdonald practiced law, is now simply “the Law Building.” Some of the views that Louise Arbour has expressed and her leading role in creating the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (which essentially gives the United Nations control of national borders) suggest she’s very much open to a “postnational” Canada. There is also no evidence that either Carney or Arbour intend to do anything about the erasure of Canada’s past, suggesting that they may be more interested in directing Canada toward globalism than in preserving its history, institutions, and traditions. ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…

Concerns are being raised about Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s omnibus Bill 60, which contains the Water and Wastewater Public Corporations Act, allowing local water systems to be removed from municipal control and reorganized as corporate entities. Legitimate concerns are being raised that this creates opportunities for making profits at the expense of public safety and rate affordability. What kind of leverage will citizens have if their water supply is owned by profit-seeking corporations? carleton.ca/news/story/ontar…

Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested that the reduction in immigration may have been a factor in creating a “technical recession” (two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction) and this was part of a “settling-in” period during a broader economic transformation. Indeed, the GDP was growing as population growth ran amok when Trudeau brought in over one million people in each of 2022 and 2023, exacerbating a housing crisis, homeless crisis, and foodbank crisis, from all of which Canada is still suffering. This only shows what a totally inadequate measure of actual well-being the GDP is when used as a stand-alone metric. Boosting immigration to “grow the economy” is not what Canada needs. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ca…

In a move to reduce both immigrant and non-immigrant visas, crack down on people who enter on temporary visas but overstay, improve screening and vetting, and operate more efficiently, the Trump administration reducing the number of US embassies and consulates in Africa that can process visas form almost 50 to 20. msn.com/en-ca/news/world/us-…

"If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years," says an impoverished Afghan in Ghor province. The situation in Afghanistan is beyond dismal, and the Taliban regime is making things much worse. But so is the neglect of family planning. Afghanistan still has a total fertility rate of almost 5 children per woman, and its population has grown from about 20 million in 2000 to over 45 million today. Its current annual growth rate is 2.74%, which translates to a doubling time of under 26 years. bbc.com/news/articles/c0q25d…

Yes, Trump was gloating when he recently posted on Truth Social that “…the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!”, but it seems to us that the mainstream media handed him the ammunition by presenting the worst case scenario (known as Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 or RCP8.5) of the various scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2011 as where we were actually headed unless we took extremely draconian action. This scenario has now been dropped. We at PIC are always struck by the disconnect between the media’s frantic coverage of climate change and its almost complete silence on population growth. carbonbrief.org/factcheck-tr…

Check out PIC’s latest newsletter! We do not share our soon-to-be governor general’s enthusiasm for essentially free migration across borders. And we wonder, is the fact that Canada slipped from 7th place in 2017 on the University of Oxford’s World Happiness rankings to 25th place in 2025 a reflection of government policies? The US policy of birthright citizenship (which Canada also has) has given rise to a birth tourism industry and has resulted in possibly one million or more “US citizens” being raised in the People’s Republic of China. How many “Canadian citizens” are being raised in China and around the world? Also, why is the Canadian government cutting funding for homeless veterans? All this and more at: mailchi.mp/5d768fb241fc/mzq6…

News outlets are reporting that Tim Hortons will stop lobbying to lift the cap on temporary foreign workers and will aim to hire more Canadian youth, where unemployment is high, up to 10,000 people across Canada. Of course, there was no need for the massive increase in foreign workers in the first place and Tim Hortons is no doubt responding to public pushback. But Tim Hortons’ parent company, Restaurant Brands International, which first registered as a lobby group in 2019, reregistered on May 18, with CEO Joshua Kobza as the Responsible Officer. And the government’s website for temporary foreign workers is still advertising jobs in the food industry. So it might be best to take everything with a grain of salt for now. ctvnews.ca/business/article/…

PM Mark Carney says the world is facing an energy crisis and Canada must help solve it. He wants to “fill the global energy void and in turn grow the economy here at home” as though he doesn’t understand that the only path to long-term sustainability is to contract the global population and the global demand for resources, including energy. In addition, although Canada, because of its climate, is among the world’s highest per capita consumers of energy, the Liberal government’s immigration targets remain high, thereby not only increasing energy consumption but also putting enormous pressure on the farmland, greenspace and wildlife habitat in the southern strip of Canada where 90% of the population lives and where virtually all newcomers settle. Advocating for using “renewable energy” to promote “sustainable growth” reflects cognitive dissonance. ca.news.yahoo.com/carney-say…

Dr. Jane O’Sullivan of Sustainable Population Australia argues for reduced immigration before the Joint Standing Committee on Migration of the Australian Parliament on May 15. She wants to end “Australia’s huge experiment in mass immigration since 2005,” which has brought no benefits to the Australian people but created many problems (same as in Canada). “Low migration is pro-migrant” and it provides better chances of success for migrants and residents alike. youtube.com/watch?v=VasjFNwg…

This interesting graph is from an article by Peter Uetz in Free Inquiry (“Myths about Overpopulation,” Free Inquiry vol. 44(3): 36-41). It shows that there is a negative correlation between the total fertility rate (TFR) and the number of patents per TFR. “Cornucopian” economist Julian Simon said people were the ultimate resource so the more the better, but the reality is that when population exceeds the environmental, infrastructure, and social capacity, more people does not mean more innovation and wealth but more poverty and conflict and reduced access to education. uetz.info/wp-content/uploads…

Riley Donovan of @DominionReview has a proposal to restore some sanity to Canada’s immigration system: the “tap on, tap off” system that we employed in decades past. And when the tap is on, it doesn’t have to be full blast. Also, being an international student or asylum seeker shouldn’t be seen as a shortcut to permanent residency. frontiercentre.org/2026/05/1…

Ten years after the 1984 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the area was still too contaminated for human habitation, but wildlife had returned – deer, bears, lynx, moose, foxes, wolves, many kinds of birds, frogs… But the living things bear still bear the hallmarks of radiation damage – mutations that affect the appearance and functioning of organisms. Yet some of the mutants are thriving in the still radioactive “nature preserve.” Nature always bats last, but must we humans present it with so many challenges? msn.com/en-ca/news/world/bea…

A new film is coming out about Herman Daly, who introduced the concept of “ecological economics” – a foreign idea to mainstream economists. It’s called “ECONOCLAST: Herman Daly and the Gospel of Growth.” Whereas nature is an afterthought in traditional economics, Daly understood the economy as a subsidiary of the biosphere. Without taking our dependence on nature into account, the entire economic edifice is a house of cards, doomed to collapse. kickstarter.com/projects/133…

Bill C-22 does seem invasive. China should not be our model for surveillance. Maybe if the federal government were a bit more selective about whom it lets into the country (i.e., adopted a saner immigration policy), it wouldn’t have to be so concerned about what each of us are doing and when. If Bill C-22 is passed, some of Canada’s leading entrepreneurs say they will leave the country. But don’t worry – no doubt the federal government will balance the numbers with asylum seekers and temporary workers. instagram.com/reel/DYXFyxTMJ…

It seems to us that if there is an organized ring for stealing meat, things are looking pretty grim in the Metro Vancouver area. It aligns with an unprecedented level of food bank use in Canada. In our opinion, it is government policies that helped get us there by spiking our population and helping to crash the economy. cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…