“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people." — Naturalist, Broadcaster and Honorary PIC Patron Sir David Attenborough https://t.co/G4kauJ1Vi1

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This seems sick. Chinese billionaires having dozens of US-born babies via surrogates. One billionaire wanted to have 20 boys (because they’re superior to girls) to take over his videogame business and another hired US models as egg donors to have 10 girls, with the aim of

The panel of the Alberta Next province-wide consultation chaired by Premier Danielle Smith is recommending referenda on several issue, including immigration, which emerged as a priority in town hall meetings. Concerns over federal mismanagement of immigration have led to

“Poets’ Pathway” in Ottawa is threatened with development and lots of people are unhappy. Yet another development project that the local community doesn’t want. Funny how even when people profess that “growth is good” (because that’s the propaganda they’re relentlessly bombarded

Anti-immigration sentiment in Canada is rising rapidly and the government has no one to blame but itself. In a survey conducted in late November, Innovative Research Group found that a clear majority (54%) of Canadians now believe that immigration threatens traditional Canadian

Statistics Canada reports that the country’s population fell by about 76,068 people or by 0.2% between July 1 and October 1, which it attributes mainly to a reduction in the number of non-permanent residents. There was a record number of outflows reflecting expired permits

Frank Götmark and ​​Malte Andersson ask a great question: why is there so much hand-wringing about declining birth rates in some countries when the real concern should be about the continuing high birth rates in much of Africa. Africa’s population doubled in the past 30 years,

Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million 387-foot diesel-powered yacht Launchpad kind of makes you wonder if his concerns about climate change are sincere. In 2017, he told Harvard graduates that we needed to stop climate change before it destroyed the planet. But this past year he logged

Guest author Alan Danesh describes how mass immigration is changing Canada in PIC’s latest mailing. He argues that it is time to change citizenship and immigration laws based on ideology to ones based on realities for the benefit of all Canadians.

In 2023, there were 25.7 million motor vehicles in Canada. In 2024, there were 26.8 million registered vehicles. That’s an increase of over one million. Gasoline-powered light-duty vehicles accounted for 92.1% of registrations for 2024. Whatever the green rhetoric, more people

Food prices are 27% higher than in 2020, says Canada’s Food Price Report. And they could increase by 4-6% next year. The cost of beef expected to rise by up to 7% as the size of cattle herds shrink and more ranchers leave the industry. One quarter of Canadians households live in

A lot of working but struggling and unemployed Canadians would be grateful to get a fraction of what the government provides to refugees under Canada’s Resettlement Assistance Program. The government helps pay for furniture, linen, household needs, transportation support, dietary

Iran’s capital Tehran (pop > 10 million) is having a severe water crisis and Iran’s reservoirs are running dry. 80-90% of Iran’s water is used for agriculture and much of that water is lost through inefficient irrigation and leaky infrastructure. But sustainable water use was

FAO says 1.7 billion people live where land degradation reduces harvests. (Are they counting Canada’s built-over farmland?) It mentions deforestation, overgrazing and unsustainable farming. They forgot population growth. https://t.co/CxT33OwKjy

The devastation wrought by Cyclone Senyar on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, was greatly exacerbated by decades of deforestation and land-use changes. The degraded soil no longer acts as a sponge, and the runoff can become torrential. Sumatra’s population has nearly tripled

Another high-tech solution that ignores the underlying problem of “too many people” hits a snag. A cradle-to-grave assessment of the environmental impact of lab-grown meat as currently manufactured shows that it is massively more resource intensive than just eating cows. This

According to a recent report by the think tank https://t.co/CsFW6XCH0x, at least 23,746 patients in Canada died while on waiting lists for surgeries and diagnostic procedures between April 2024 and March 2025. The total number of wait list deaths since 2018 is over 100,000.

About that falling quality of life we mentioned yesterday: The Institute for Canadian Citizenship, a shill for mass immigration, reports that immigrants are leaving Canada at near-record rates, and the highly skilled are leaving at twice the rate of the low-skilled. “Canada’s

Canada tried to raise its GDP by using the shortcut of just increasing its population, without regard to any other parameter, including per capita GDP. And how did that work out? According to this Quality of Life Index, Canada fell from 9th place in the world in 2015 to 27thplace

More than 40% of the babies born in Canada in 2024 were born to mothers who were born outside of Canada, reflecting the high immigration that occurred in Canada after Covid. In 1997, that number was 22.5%. The number of births to foreign-born mothers increased 3.4% in 2022, 8.9%