Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’ 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. 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 ‘Unmarked Graves’? 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. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 8 min read
Canada’s Faltering ‘Unmarked Graves’ Narrative Goes to Court 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. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 11 min read
I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You) A veteran of British Columbia’s 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 ‘eerie similarities’ between censorship campaigns in India and Canada. Quillette 17 Jul 2024 · 18 min read
When Anti-Racism Training Becomes ‘Vexatious’ Abuse On the anniversary of Richard Bilkszto’s suicide, a Quillette investigation explores how Ontario’s public school system was radicalised by ‘equity thought leaders’ such as Kike Ojo-Thompson. Ari David Blaff 13 Jul 2024 · 32 min read
Podcast #239: Justin Trudeau’s Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Minority Report’ 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 haven’t done yet. Quillette 19 Jun 2024 · 14 min read
Canada’s Elusive Unmarked Graves: a Third-Anniversary Update Many of the public figures who stoked the country’s 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 Canada’s Residential Schools. Unfortunately, many details of his tragic story have been misrepresented in the process. Robert MacBain 23 Apr 2024 · 19 min read
Investigating the Academy In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities. Jonathan Kay 19 Apr 2024 · 15 min read
A Different Way of Fighting In the eighteenth instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the confusion that resulted when French and Indigenous fighters jointly assaulted an Iroquois village in 1615. Greg Koabel 14 Mar 2024 · 29 min read
Immigrant Song Canadians have had to formulate a new language to address new complications posed by immigration, and no one is quite sure how that language should sound. George Case 6 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
Looking Back at the ‘Unmarked Graves’ Social Panic of 2021 A new book tries to explain how millions of Canadians became convinced that the bodies of 215 ‘missing’ Indigenous children had been discovered in British Columbia. Tom Flanagan / Chris Champion 1 Mar 2024 · 13 min read
