A collection of 147 posts
Getting oneself labelled ‘conservative’ in this country typically has little to do with ideology. It’s more about one’s willingness to state unpopular facts and break unspoken rules of political etiquette.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’
In 2021, Canadians were told that the remains of 215 Indigenous children had been found at a former school. The story turned out to be false—but no one in authority seems to know how to walk it back.
Legions of Canadian university students are now required to mumble fatuous platitudes about decolonisation as a condition of graduation. It’s effectively become Canada’s national liturgy.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape.
Many Canadian conservatives were warming to Donald Trump—until he threatened to destroy their economy with crippling tariffs.
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.
Zoe interviews her colleague Jonathan Kay, who once ghostwrote for Trudeau, about his time working with the Canadian soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister.
Recordings from a recent Brock University faculty union meeting illustrate the tactics that anti-Israel activists use to co-opt ostensibly neutral academic institutions.
Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.
University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.
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.
Even by Canadian standards, the province has become a hostile environment for women seeking to advocate for their sex-based rights.
The same reporter who helped spark Canada’s 2021 social panic has published a new article walking back his original errors—but those mistakes remain uncorrected on the Times’ website.
When lawyers asked the Law Society of British Columbia to correct the false claim that ‘the bodies of 215 children’ were discovered in Kamloops, the legal regulator accused them of bigotry.