Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’ University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights. Jonathan Kay 29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read
When Will The New York Times Correct Its Flawed Reporting on ‘Unmarked Graves’? The same reporter who helped spark Canada’s 2021 social panic has published a new article walking back his original errors—but those mistakes remain uncorrected on the Times’ website. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 8 min read
Canada’s Faltering ‘Unmarked Graves’ Narrative Goes to Court When lawyers asked the Law Society of British Columbia to correct the false claim that ‘the bodies of 215 children’ were discovered in Kamloops, the legal regulator accused them of bigotry. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 11 min read
Canada’s Elusive Unmarked Graves: a Third-Anniversary Update Many of the public figures who stoked the country’s morbid 2021 social panic are now doing their best to change the subject. Jonathan Kay 29 May 2024 · 11 min read
The Placebo Effect’s Evil Twin The Nocebo Effect occurs when we experience pain, depression, or illness based on nothing more than negative expectations. Michael H. Bernstein 11 Mar 2024 · 8 min read