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Sailing Into Canada’s Great ‘Northern Sea’

In the fifteenth instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Henry Hudson’s tragic 1610-11 voyage to the saltwater bay that now bears his name.

Greg Koabel

11 Dec 2023 · 31 min read

Joseph Boyden Isn’t Indigenous. But his Historical Fiction Is Still Worth Reading

The author’s widely celebrated 2013 novel, ‘The Orenda,’ helped educate Canadians about their country’s colonial roots. It shouldn’t be cast into literary oblivion just because Boyden misrepresented his ancestry.

Andy Lamey

11 Nov 2023 · 34 min read

Hamas Terror Is Testing the Moral Credibility of Canadian Progressives

No movement that excuses the deliberate slaughter of innocent civilians—even under guise of anti-colonial ‘resistance’—can survive as a mainstream political creed.

Jonathan Kay

26 Oct 2023 · 10 min read

Betraying Their Maverick Roots, Fringe Festivals Have Become Ideological Gatekeepers

A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster.

Bryony Dixon

24 Oct 2023 · 10 min read

Podcast #226: Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with political scientist Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration.

Quillette

20 Oct 2023 · 14 min read

Champlain Goes to War

In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609.

Greg Koabel

19 Oct 2023 · 26 min read

Canadian Parents (Finally) Push Back Against Gender Cultism

Many of us are simply tired of living in a society that gaslights citizens with officially sanctioned lies like ‘trans women are women‘

Jonathan Kay

23 Sep 2023 · 7 min read

A Cartographer for the Ages

In the eleventh instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain fundamentally redirected France’s transatlantic colonial project

Greg Koabel

9 Sep 2023 · 22 min read

When Trans Activism Becomes Government Policy

Even as other nations finally move to protect dysphoric youth from disfiguring treatments, Canadian politicians and educators continue to promote state-funded ‘gender journeys.’

Margaret Wente / Jonathan Kay

21 Aug 2023 · 23 min read

Memories of a Childhood Arcadia

For two four-year-old Ontario boys growing up in the 1950s, a backyard creek became the site of unforgettable adventures.

Herman Goodden

16 Aug 2023 · 7 min read

Not a Genocide

Terrible things happened at many of Canada’s Residential Schools. But describing these institutions as instruments of mass murder is inaccurate.

Ian Gentles

2 Aug 2023 · 34 min read

RIP, Richard Bilkszto, a Toronto Educator Who Stood up to Woke Bullying—and Paid the Price

Two years after being falsely smeared as a white supremacist by a diversity trainer, a longtime school principal committed suicide

Jonathan Kay

21 Jul 2023 · 10 min read

In Canada, ‘Decolonization’ Has Become a Profitable Enterprise

British Columbia’s nursing regulator paid consultants almost $100,000 to design a special complaints process for Indigenous patients.

Amy Eileen Hamm

3 Jul 2023 · 6 min read

Celebrating the Legacy of Canada’s First Prime Minister

Far from being an ‘architect of genocide,’ John A. Macdonald championed policies that were humane by 19th-century standards

Greg Piasetzki

1 Jul 2023 · 11 min read

In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’

Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence

Jonathan Kay

20 Jun 2023 · 10 min read