Watching My Great Nation Lapse Into a Cult of Self-Abasement I wasnât a patriot until it had all gone; then I would have sold my soul to buy it back. ~Tanya, in Malcolm Bradburyâs Eating People Is Wrong For more than 20 years, from the mid-â70s to the late-â90s, Morningside, a three-hour daily broadcast that mixed John E. MacKinnon 11 Nov 2021 · 14 min read
Louise Pennyâs Armand Gamache: Quebecâs 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 Associationâs Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide The campaign to label Canada a genocide state isnât 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. âSafe Spaceâ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable âCancel cultureâ has become a trendy term in recent years. But public shaming has always existed. Itâs 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 countriesâ 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 Columbiaâs Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them Under this policy, declaring oneâs 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 ActivismâA Canadian Case Study This all began with an imaginary teachersâ manual. It ended with us challenging Canadaâs self-described ânational newspaperâ 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. Weâve 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 ChildrenâWithout 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 musicalâAnything Goesâat Canadaâs Shaw Festival. But thatâs the only play Iâve directed that was seen by a large audience. Sky Gilbert 9 Mar 2021 · 8 min read
For Our Own Good, We All Need a Glimpse of the Evil Queen I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue. Jordan Peterson 7 Mar 2021 · 11 min read
How a Single Anonymous Twitter Account Caused an âIndigenizedâ Canadian University to Unravel The main beneficiaries are more likely to be privileged administrators who burnish their bona fides by filling alumni magazines and email blasts with Indigenous photo-ops. Jonathan Kay 6 Mar 2021 · 17 min read
The Problem With âIndigenizing the Universityâ Supporters of Indigenization, on the other hand, believe that Indigenization can yield positive, even utopian, dividends. Frances Widdowson 24 Feb 2021 · 14 min read
