In Jonathan Swift’s satirical 18th century masterpiece, “Gulliver’s Travels,” his sea-faring protagonist visits various fictional lands, whose inhabitants represent facets of h...
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Whatever else happens when the dust settles on the war against Iran, one certain casualty will be the Palestinians’ delusion that Iran’s terrorist “ring of fire” would vanquish...
The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us t...
Now in its second reading, Bill C-223, an Act to amend the Divorce Act, also known as the “Keeping Children Safe Act,” is a private member’s bill tabled by Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner. E...
In his widely-praised Davos speech, Mark Carney paid homage to a renowned 1978 essay by Czech dissident Václav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless.” In it, Havel tells the parable of...
In April, 1996, newly-graduated biologist Patricia Wyman was mauled to death at her “dream job,” tending captive wolves at the Haliburton Forest Wolf Centre Sanctuary. Commenting on the fa...
The Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration massacre, Australia’s deadliest terrorist incident, which resulted in 15 dead and 40 wounded, continues to dominate my thoughts. One particular witness accou...
Iconic American intellectual Norman Podhoretz died earlier this month, peacefully at 95. Reading this news, I recalled a luncheon conversation with my then collea...
Canada’s post-October 7 antisemitism crisis mirrors Australia’s. It’s small wonder that the Bondi Beach Hanukkah pogrom is perceived by numerous Canadian observers as a bullet dodged...
In September, public intellectual Helen Andrews caused a stir when she delivered a provocative 17-minute speech, titled “Overcoming the Feminization of Culture,” to the National Conservati...
Since the October 7 pogrom by Hamas in southern Israel, Canada has seen a staggering surge in antisemitism, up 670 per cent in 2024, and in terrorism charges, up 488 per cent from April 2023 to March ...
During Israeli Apartheid Week in 2008, the University of Toronto hosted a conference of a newly formed group called High Schools Against Israel Apartheid. Ominously, the conference room was closed to ...
President Donald Trump set himself a grueling pace last weekend to ensure his fragile peace plan’s opening performance went off without a hitch. His mini-tour began with a twelve-hour flight to ...
A full-page ad in the Sept. 27 issue of the Globe and Mail, sponsored by the NGO Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF), begins with the words, “Doctors can’t...
Even if the notwithstanding clause is required for its execution, the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) is poised to pass a bill “to strengthen secularism in Quebec” — an expansio...
Abraham Lincoln famously said, “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.” Truer words were never spoken.
The Ontario educati...
The Ontario public school network is a systemically polluted ecosystem. This isn’t my opinion. The evidence is in, and it stinks to high heaven.
A recent survey on antisemitism in three Ontario...
Prefaced by the statement, “Antisemitism has reached a point of no return,” popular Israeli commentator Hillel Fuld recently predicted that in less than a month, “A very VERY large s...
Two weeks ago, a Montreal woman was viciously attacked by her stepson’s previously amiable pit bull, losing two litres of blood from some 20 lacerations on both arms. Heavily bandaged victim Mel...
In March 2008, revelations surfaced of past anti-American and antisemitic rhetoric by Barack Obama’s longtime pastor and friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright, including Wright’s accusation that the...