Memorial Daze Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil. George Case 14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
My Experience Working With Justin Trudeau: Quillette Cetera Episode 43 Zoe interviews her colleague Jonathan Kay, who once ghostwrote for Trudeau, about his time working with the Canadian soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister. Zoe Booth / Jonathan Kay 13 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
Keeping BDS Out of Academia: A Canadian Case Study Recordings from a recent Brock University faculty union meeting illustrate the tactics that anti-Israel activists use to co-opt ostensibly neutral academic institutions. Jonathan Kay 7 Jan 2025 · 10 min read
Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot whoâd unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state. Jonathan Kay 7 Jan 2025 · 8 min read
Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and âDecolonizationâ University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student whoâd asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliationâuntil a UWO tribunal concluded theyâd violated her rights. Jonathan Kay 29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read
DEI Without the Dogma A business-communications coach reflects on the connections between her college-era Marxist beliefs and the identity-based fixations that have come to dominate her industry. Evelina Silveira 28 Oct 2024 · 13 min read
In British Columbia, Censorship Wears a Pronoun Pin Even by Canadian standards, the province has become a hostile environment for women seeking to advocate for their sex-based rights. Meghan Murphy 2 Oct 2024 · 10 min read
When Will The New York Times Correct Its Flawed Reporting on âUnmarked Gravesâ? The same reporter who helped spark Canadaâs 2021 social panic has published a new article walking back his original errorsâbut those mistakes remain uncorrected on the Timesâ website. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 8 min read
Canadaâs Faltering âUnmarked Gravesâ Narrative Goes to Court When lawyers asked the Law Society of British Columbia to correct the false claim that âthe bodies of 215 childrenâ were discovered in Kamloops, the legal regulator accused them of bigotry. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 11 min read
I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You) A veteran of British Columbiaâs public-sector workforce explains how DEI enforcers forced him to choose between keeping his job and honouring his values. Nick Osmond-Jones 16 Sep 2024 · 23 min read
Podcast #243: The Freedom to Blaspheme Jonathan Kay speaks to fellow podcast host Kushal Mehra about the âeerie similaritiesâ between censorship campaigns in India and Canada. Quillette 17 Jul 2024 · 18 min read
When Anti-Racism Training Becomes âVexatiousâ Abuse On the anniversary of Richard Bilksztoâs suicide, a Quillette investigation explores how Ontarioâs public school system was radicalised by âequity thought leadersâ such as Kike Ojo-Thompson. Ari David Blaff 13 Jul 2024 · 32 min read
Podcast #239: Justin Trudeauâs Ominous Online Harms Act: âMinority Reportâ Comes to Canada Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about a censorious government bill that would allow officials to investigate Canadians for things they havenât done yet. Quillette 19 Jun 2024 · 14 min read
Canadaâs Elusive Unmarked Graves: a Third-Anniversary Update Many of the public figures who stoked the countryâs morbid 2021 social panic are now doing their best to change the subject. Jonathan Kay 29 May 2024 · 11 min read
The Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy Charlie Wenjack has come to symbolise the deadly horrors of Canadaâs Residential Schools. Unfortunately, many details of his tragic story have been misrepresented in the process. Robert MacBain 23 Apr 2024 · 19 min read