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The Enduring Cruelty of Canada’s Residential Schools

In a new, meticulously sourced book, two authors use personal case studies to illuminate the injustices inflicted on Indigenous peoples by Canadian governments and churches.

Andrew Stobo Sniderman / Douglas Sanderson

3 Dec 2022 · 11 min read

Extraordinary Destiny

In a newly published book, a motivational speaker who works with female prisoners reflects on the life lessons she’s learned behind bars.

Phyllis Taylor

17 Nov 2022 · 10 min read

Co-Opting Toronto’s Public Education System in the Name of Social Justice Activism

Why Canada’s largest school board is seeking to administer an ideologically skewed census to its students.

Ian Cooper

15 Nov 2022 · 14 min read

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 · 9 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 · 13 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) Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process by which that story began to unravel in the year that followed, and what the

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 · 6 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 · 9 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” that occupied downtown Ottawa until Sunday wasn’t one of those cases. Thousands of anti-vaccine-mandate protesters, many of them driving trucks, took over a large portion of Canada’

Jonathan Kay

21 Feb 2022 · 12 min read

Next Year in Simla: Thirty years After Its Defeat, the Khalistan Movement Fights on in Cyberspace

Even if the referendum turns out to be a complete failure, though, the Khalistanis seem unlikely to fade away.

Terry Milewski

26 Jan 2022 · 19 min read