At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second
We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Canada
A collection of 155 posts
The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity
Even historians, who have many years to consider the object of their study, inhabit “the twilight of probability.” How can those journalists tasked with writing “history’s first draft” imagine that they know which way true “harm” lies?
Lorraine Clark
· 7 min read
Keeping Male Bodies Out of Women's Rugby
World Rugby had to come to terms with reality: Irrespective of hormonal intervention, male athletes are, on average, 40 percent heavier, 15 percent faster, 30 percent more powerful, and 25–50 percent stronger than their female counterparts.
Linda Blade
· 8 min read
Don’t Listen to the Outrage. ‘Cuties’ Is a Great Film
Allan Stratton
· 12 min read
The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism
By 2014, Homo sapiens had, by the reckoning of the World Wildlife Fund, destroyed an incredible 60 percent of the wild mammal, bird, reptile, and fish populations that were in existence as recently as 1970.
Baz Edmeades
· 10 min read
Exploiting a Woman’s Deadly Fall to Smear Toronto's Police
But instead, progressives such as Singh are far more interested in polluting Twitter with lazy lies and protest applause lines that erase any distinction between policing methods.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Neglecting At-Risk Children in the Name of Cultural Sensitivity
She has more than 20 years of experience working with families and children in true crisis, including with issues ranging from rape, to drug addiction, to terminal illness
Hal Niedzviecki
· 8 min read
On This Day in 1945, Japan Released Me from a POW Camp. Then US Pilots Saved My Life
These were veterans of the long Pacific campaign. They’d survived many terrible encounters with the Japanese in their westward campaign across the Pacific, and they looked the part.
George MacDonell
· 9 min read
In Canada's Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno's’
Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
To Be Useful, Health Data Must Go Deeper Than ‘Black’ and ‘White’
In the case of COVID-19, we know that diabetes, hypertension, and obesity all are significant comorbidities.
Amr F. Hamour
· 5 min read
From South American Anthropology to Gender-Crit Cancel Culture: My Strange Feminist Journey
Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it.
Kathleen Lowrey
· 13 min read
I Run a Family-Owned Construction Firm. Here’s What COVID-19 Did to My World
Our business model is simple: We build and fix things so that other people have a place to live and work, and so that we can pay our own bills and live our own lives.
Jocelyn Burzuik
· 10 min read
Canada's Epic Rail Crisis Offers the World a Cautionary Tale on Indigenous Mantras
All countries must do right by their own Indigenous populations in their own way.
Jonathan Kay
· 5 min read
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
· 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
· 12 min read