Canada - Quillette (Page 8)

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

Thoughtcrime and Punishment: A Year Of Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian University

No one at Wilfrid Laurier University would give me a straight answer about anything. It was a climate of evasiveness and secrecy.

Lindsay Shepherd

8 Jan 2019 · 7 min read

Denial and the Free Speech Crisis

In fact, freedom of speech has been repeatedly repressed at the University of Guelph, and this has been going on for at least a decade.

Rose Clark

17 Dec 2018 · 11 min read

The Flawed History and Real Torment of Canada's Residential Schools

Brian was just one of thousands of Indigenous children who were subjected to horrendous abuse at Canada’s Indian residential schools.

Robert MacBain

4 Dec 2018 · 14 min read

The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing—but No One Has Been Held Accountable

The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.

Jonathan Kay

17 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

An Academic Mobbing at McGill

In true mobbing fashion, the extreme and racist allegations that Ibrahim was a typical Arabic misogynist and sexual predator simply do not add up. In fact the opposite is true.

Barbara Kay

17 Oct 2018 · 25 min read

Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras

With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.

Geoffrey Clarfield

11 Oct 2018 · 6 min read