Canada - Quillette (Page 5)

‘We Never Looked Back’

Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.

Ruth R. Wisse

27 Nov 2021 · 15 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

A true and sincere confession of one’s actual sins and cruelties is a courageous act that leaves one vulnerable and exposed.

Jonathan Kay

22 Nov 2021 · 16 min read

Watching My Great Nation Lapse Into a Cult of Self-Abasement

I wasn’t a patriot until it had all gone; then I would have sold my soul to buy it back. ~Tanya, in Malcolm Bradbury’s Eating People Is Wrong For more than 20 years, from the mid-’70s to the late-’90s, Morningside, a three-hour daily broadcast that mixed

John E. MacKinnon

11 Nov 2021 · 14 min read

Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache: Quebec’s Too-Perfect Police Officer

Detective stories are so popular in our culture that those of us lacking experience of the real life variety sometimes have difficulty telling fact and fiction apart

John Allore

4 Oct 2021 · 9 min read

The Canadian Historical Association’s Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide

The campaign to label Canada a genocide state isn’t an isolated phenomenon, but is playing out as part of a larger effort to destroy any publicly displayed symbol of national pride.

Christopher Dummitt

10 Aug 2021 · 11 min read

Life as a Stand-Up Comic Can Be Brutal. ‘Safe Space’ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable

“Cancel culture” has become a trendy term in recent years. But public shaming has always existed. It’s a social tool, and like all tools can be used for good or ill.

Jessica Pigeau

1 Aug 2021 · 35 min read

The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba

Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence.

Yvon Grenier

2 Jul 2021 · 13 min read

What Are Dads Good For?

The sadly deflating truth of the matter is that it can take a good few years before children begin to apprehend what fathers are good for.

Herman Goodden

18 Jun 2021 · 8 min read

Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them

Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.

Karin Litzcke

19 May 2021 · 16 min read

When Journalism Blurs Into Activism—A Canadian Case Study

This all began with an imaginary teachers’ manual. It ended with us challenging Canada’s self-described “national newspaper” about a range of stories in which ideologically-driven narratives seemed to trump fact. We are two long-in-the-tooth Canadian journalists who began our careers in the 1980s. We’ve written investigative pieces about

Paul Benedetti and Wayne MacPhail

3 May 2021 · 12 min read

Weaponizing Social Justice to Protect School Administrators and Discredit Whistle-blowers: A Canadian Case Study

Two hours to the west of Montreal, the University of Ottawa is now in the midst of its own racism-free anti-racism social panic.

Jonathan Kay

1 Apr 2021 · 18 min read

The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America's Indigenous Peoples

In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia.

Bruce Bourque

29 Mar 2021 · 20 min read

We Can Revisit (And Even Replace) the Classic Books We Teach Children—Without Cancelling Them

Allan Stratton

18 Mar 2021 · 15 min read

With Theatres Shuttered, I Tried to Stage a 'Zoom Play.' (It Didn't Work)

I once directed a classical musical—Anything Goes—at Canada’s Shaw Festival. But that’s the only play I’ve directed that was seen by a large audience.

Sky Gilbert

9 Mar 2021 · 8 min read