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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

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 ‘Indigenized’ 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 ‘Indigenizing the University’

Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises.

Frances Widdowson

24 Feb 2021 · 13 min read

A (Failed) Campaign to Smear a University of Toronto Scholarship Student as a Bigot

The problem, he notes is that there is always going to be a required balance between our trusting inclination of accusations from an apparent victim, and everyone’s inviolable right of due process.

Michael Humeniuk

8 Feb 2021 · 12 min read

Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later

North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.

Barbara Kay

21 Dec 2020 · 14 min read

An 'Anti-Racist' Mob Set Its Sights on Humble ‘Squampton.’ Here’s How the Town Fought Back

Though the population is largely white, Squamish has steadily become more diverse in recent years, and now boasts a thriving Sikh community.

Brian Vincent

20 Dec 2020 · 18 min read

My Journey from Born Again Christian to the Church of Woke—And Halfway Back Again

How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?

Will Johnson

6 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist

What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.

Theodore Pennington

29 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard

The need for secrecy was therefore paramount. But as he began to plot his sabotage, Clark realized he’d need at least one trusted accomplice.

George MacDonell

11 Nov 2020 · 10 min read

R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear

We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.

Sky Gilbert

6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read