Welcome to Canada, Where Everyone’s a Génocidaire Canadians are being told that they’ve perpetrated multiple genocides. So why aren’t their leaders being tried at The Hague? Jonathan Kay 31 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Exalting an ‘Anti-Colonial’ Gender Identity In a new report, Canadian educators are instructed about a Two-Spirit LGBT subcategory that, even the authors admit, lacks any real definition. Jonathan Kay 3 Oct 2022 · 7 min read
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ A new book examines the trucker-led protests against Canadian vaccine mandates. Andrew Lawton 1 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
The Line Between Anti-Racism and Racism Keeps Getting Fainter How an antisemitic bigot named Laith Marouf built a lucrative career as a Canadian government-funded ‘anti-racist’ Jonathan Kay 25 Aug 2022 · 12 min read
Next Year in Provence After my parents’ divorce, my mother complained a lot about small-town life in Cobourg, Ontario. For many locals, I learned, the feeling was mutual. Leah McLaren 25 Aug 2022 · 9 min read
Podcast # 194: Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong? Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter (and popular Substack author [https://therealstory.substack.com/]) Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html] that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process Quillette 3 Aug 2022 · 1 min read
A Media-Fueled Social Panic Over Unmarked Graves Not a single body has been unearthed. But Canadians wouldn’t know it from the false information reported in The New York Times. Jonathan Kay 22 Jul 2022 · 16 min read
The Opposite of Junk A dozen journals left to us by my wife’s Scottish grandmother were destined for the recycling bin—until we took a look at what was inside. Herman Goodden 2 Jul 2022 · 11 min read
The Case Against Hate-Speech Laws: a Canadian Perspective It is not science fiction to imagine that Section 319 and other as-yet-undrafted Canadian “anti-hate” laws will metastasize. Jonathan Kay 4 Jun 2022 · 5 min read
Canada’s Racial Balkanization With their newfound fixation on race and bloodline, Canada’s WASP elites are channelling a mindset that I thought I’d left behind in the former Yugoslavia. Lydia Perović 12 May 2022 · 8 min read
The Ottawa Trucker Protest Was Disruptive. The Hysterical Reaction to It Was Worse In some cases, drawing the line between permissible and impermissible forms of public protest can be difficult. But the Canadian “Freedom Convoy [https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/meet-the-truckers]” that occupied downtown Ottawa until Sunday wasn’t one of those cases. Thousands of anti-vaccine-mandate protesters, many of them driving trucks, took Jonathan Kay 21 Feb 2022 · 11 min read
Next Year in Simla: Thirty years After Its Defeat, the Khalistan Movement Fights on in Cyberspace The death threats have definitely gone upscale. Fifteen years ago, they were quite uncouth. As one put it: “time to find out where Milewski lives and put his head on a stick.” Over time, though, they’ve become a little more polished. Okay, the little gun needs no translation [https: Terry Milewski 26 Jan 2022 · 18 min read
‘We Never Looked Back’: Ruth Wisse on the Jewish Refugees Who Built New Lives in Montreal Ruth R. Wisse 27 Nov 2021 · 14 min read
History Lessons from the Toronto Mob Targeting a 19th-Century Gay Icon Allan Stratton 26 Nov 2021 · 15 min read
Confession and Conspiracism in the Church of Social Justice “Indigenous peoples have been stewards of this planet since time immemorial,” tweeted [https://twitter.com/s_guilbeault/status/1459258437179789312?s=20] Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault from the Glasgow Climate Change Conference earlier this month. “The fight against climate change is not possible without their knowledge and leadership.” It was Jonathan Kay 22 Nov 2021 · 15 min read