Canada - Quillette (Page 8)

By Seeking ‘Safer Spaces’ for Actors, We’re Creating a Hostile Environment for Art

I honestly have no idea why any actor would want to appear in a serious play featuring protagonists who are not, in some way, “screwed up.”

Sky Gilbert

7 Feb 2020 · 8 min read

Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic

In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists.

Jonathan Kay

31 Oct 2019 · 12 min read

Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? This Week's Election Proved the Opposite

Even if one accepts the Star’s generous tally of right-wing protestors at the pictured event—“about 15 people”—the conceit that “hate fills Edmonton’s streets” is ludicrous.

Jonathan Kay

22 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

Trudeau’s Government Tried to Block My Election Reporting. (Thankfully, It Failed)

In recent days, the Liberals escalated their campaign against Lawton, by seeking not only to block him from covering the Liberal campaign, but also seeking to deny him accreditation to cover the National Leader’s Debates.

Candice Malcolm

8 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

The Political Excommunication of Erin Weir Betrays the Face of Modern Political Cowardice

Under the Canadian political system, party leaders are free to unilaterally block candidates, no matter the views of voters or the rank-and-file.

Eric Cline

9 Sep 2019 · 15 min read

The Campaign to Destroy Equal Voice

The conflict between management and the young staffers at Equal Voice is not only an ideological divide, but a generational one, and the younger cohort employs a particularly dramatic lexicon.

Lona Manning

16 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

Trudeau’s Shameful Gambit: Smearing Conservative Opponents as Neo-Nazis

He is hyping the problem for political gain, rather than contextualizing it as a challenge to democratic liberalism that should be managed within our existing political framework.

David Jacobs

13 Aug 2019 · 11 min read

Canada's Treatment of Indigenous Peoples Was Cruel. But Calling It an Ongoing 'Genocide' Is Wrong

The crime of genocide is typically investigated and litigated with the goal of holding genocidaires accountable for their crimes.

David Mount

11 Jul 2019 · 19 min read

The Ultimate ‘Concept Creep’: How a Canadian Inquiry Strips the Word ‘Genocide’ of Meaning

All societies lie to themselves about genocide. But the nature of the lies change over time.

Jonathan Kay

3 Jun 2019 · 9 min read

The Circular Firing Squad Is Destroying the Left's Political Brand: A Case Study from Canada

Some of the sharpest blows delivered against Canadian progressives over the last month have been the result of poisonous civil wars within the progressive community itself.

Jonathan Kay

15 Apr 2019 · 10 min read

How Our Little Humanist Club Got Taken Over by Social Justice Dogmatists

It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.

Baz Edmeades

6 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

How Ideologues Captured the Canadian Publishing Industry

Publishing is not a career one chooses for the money.

Tara Nykyforiak

26 Jan 2019 · 12 min read

Quand le 'Bye Bye' Éloigne les Deux Solitudes

Ils y ont vu un sketch qui tournait en ridicule le fait que le premier ministre avait lui-même folklorisé, voire caricaturé les coutumes indiennes lors de son périple. Alors que certains anglophones y ont plutôt vu une moquerie…de la communauté indienne.

François Cardinal

21 Jan 2019 · 7 min read

Entering the Mind of an Inuit Whale-Hunter

Klarmann and Eklund didn’t care about getting players to admire Indigenous peoples, even if that is what they achieved. They were just two nerds trying to make a good game.

Jonathan Kay

21 Jan 2019 · 16 min read

Why Quebec Isn't Interested in Anglo Lectures About Cultural Appropriation

The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it.

François Cardinal

17 Jan 2019 · 8 min read