The Ultimate ‘Concept Creep’: How a Canadian Inquiry Strips the Word ‘Genocide’ of Meaning
All societies lie to themselves about genocide. But the nature of the lies change over time.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Canada
A collection of 164 posts
The Circular Firing Squad Is Destroying the Left's Political Brand: A Case Study from Canada
Some of the sharpest blows delivered against Canadian progressives over the last month have been the result of poisonous civil wars within the progressive community itself.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
How Our Little Humanist Club Got Taken Over by Social Justice Dogmatists
It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.
Baz Edmeades
· 9 min read
How Ideologues Captured the Canadian Publishing Industry
Publishing is not a career one chooses for the money.
Tara Nykyforiak
· 12 min read
Quand le 'Bye Bye' Éloigne les Deux Solitudes
Ils y ont vu un sketch qui tournait en ridicule le fait que le premier ministre avait lui-même folklorisé, voire caricaturé les coutumes indiennes lors de son périple. Alors que certains anglophones y ont plutôt vu une moquerie…de la communauté indienne.
François Cardinal
· 7 min read
Entering the Mind of an Inuit Whale-Hunter
Klarmann and Eklund didn’t care about getting players to admire Indigenous peoples, even if that is what they achieved. They were just two nerds trying to make a good game.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
Why Quebec Isn't Interested in Anglo Lectures About Cultural Appropriation
The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it.
François Cardinal
· 8 min read
Thoughtcrime and Punishment: A Year Of Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian University
No one at Wilfrid Laurier University would give me a straight answer about anything. It was a climate of evasiveness and secrecy.
Lindsay Shepherd
· 7 min read
Denial and the Free Speech Crisis
In fact, freedom of speech has been repeatedly repressed at the University of Guelph, and this has been going on for at least a decade.
Rose Clark
· 11 min read
The Flawed History and Real Torment of Canada's Residential Schools
Brian was just one of thousands of Indigenous children who were subjected to horrendous abuse at Canada’s Indian residential schools.
Robert MacBain
· 14 min read
The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing — But No One Has Been Held Accountable
The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
An Academic Mobbing at McGill
In true mobbing fashion, the extreme and racist allegations that Ibrahim was a typical Arabic misogynist and sexual predator simply do not add up. In fact the opposite is true.
Barbara Kay
· 25 min read
Righteous Among the Nations — The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Castellanos
With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 6 min read
The Implosion of Canada's Music Industry
Now that they are channeling the self-censoring spirit of our times, the soul is being sucked out of the business, and the art, that I love. This essay is my attempt to explain how we got here.
Neil Gray
· 24 min read
When Censorship Is Crowdsourced
The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read