I Chaired Canada's Human Rights Tribunal. Here's What I Saw.
During my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring.
David Thomas
· 13 min read
Canada
A collection of 178 posts
First Nations Chief, Podcast Pundit, Indigenous Gadfly
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Aaron Pete, Chief of the Chawathil First Nation, about reserve governance, residential schools, ‘unmarked graves,’ and intra-Indigenous politics.
Quillette
· 33 min read
How Canada Jumped the Rails on ’Gender-Affirming Care’: A Quillette Investigation
The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-identified children.
Jonathan Kay
· 24 min read
The Great Canadian Unmarked-Graves Social Panic (2021–2026)
Mia Hughes and Stella O’Malley of the ‘Beyond Gender’ podcast interview Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the progressive ideological manias spawned during the Justin Trudeau years.
Jonathan Kay
· 35 min read
The Last Canadian Politician I’d Trust to Police the Internet
Marc Miller spread misinformation about unmarked graves and supports the criminal prosecution of residential-school ‘denialists.’ Why would Mark Carney use him to front his new plan for regulating online content?
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
A Tale of Two Settlements
In the 29th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the birth of Montreal in 1642; and the Indigenous town of Sillery, where a new kind of native-born Christianity took root.
Greg Koabel
· 28 min read
Preventing Canada’s Next Unmarked-Graves-Style Social Panic
Journalists should resolve to treat their Indigenous sources as real-life human beings—as opposed to mystic savants who channel sacred and unfalsifiable ‘knowings’
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Canada’s Newspaper of Record Asks: ‘What If They Ultimately Find Nothing?’
Five years after it helped promote a nationwide social panic over ‘unmarked graves,’ the Globe & Mail admits those graves might not actually exist—while also suggesting that it doesn’t really matter anyway.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
A Deceitful Propaganda Campaign Marketed as a ‘Prank’
CBC-funded TV producers using fake names are ambushing Canadians who take a positive view of their country—including an 82-year-old Ontario grandfather who invited the film crew into his home.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
British Columbia’s UNDRIP Fiasco
By enacting the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into provincial law, B.C. effectively handed veto power over policy-making to First Nations lobbyists.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Canada’s 215 Imaginary Martyrs
How will Canadian journalists cover the five-year anniversary of the 2021 ‘unmarked-graves’ social panic without admitting their complicity in promoting a fake story?
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
The Tragedy of Murdered Indigenous Women is Real. So How Did Activists Turn It Into a Punch Line?
Leah Gazan’s use of the absurd term ‘MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+’ to describe female Indigenous homicide victims is a case study in progressive linguistic self-sabotage.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
The IOC Is Protecting Female Athletics. Canada’s Secretary of State for Sport Isn’t Happy About It
On his Facebook page, Adam van Koeverden accused the IOC’s defenders of channelling ‘stupid conservative pseudo fantasies.’
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
The Tragicomic Death Throes of Canada’s (Former) Workers’ Party
The New Democratic Party, which once championed the country’s unions, is now in the hands of a radicalised anti-Israel activist who wants to nationalise grocery sales and shut down oil production.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Treating Myths as Science
Indigenous “Ways of Knowing” have no place in British Columbia’s school science curriculum.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read