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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

‘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