Articles / Media

Rex Murphy was the people's intellectual

  • May 13, 2024
Robert Rex Raphael Murphy was a great Canadian. His profound erudition could have led to a career in academia, but, fortunately for us, Rex chose journalism because he hated footnotes. In voice and pr...
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National Post

Leninism Is Alive and Well Among the West’s Multitude of ‘Useful Idiots’

  • January 23, 2024
An old Soviet joke opens with a set-up question: What was the world’s most significant historical event in 1875? Punchline: Vladimir Lenin turned 5. As the joke implies, Lenin was held in awe t...
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The Epoch Times

To Uphold the Preferred Narrative, Media Will Go to Any Lengths to Demonize Israel

  • January 10, 2024
The news story of the year in 2023 was indubitably Hamas’s Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel and its aftermath. Hamas’s monstrous achievement stunned the world. Equally stunning was what th...
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The Epoch Times

The Christian organization that is a true friend of Israel's

  • December 24, 2023
Since Oct. 7, I have been writing columns about alarming spikes in antisemitism and the revival of Jews’ historical fears. But in this, my pre-Christmas and final column of 2023, I feel bound to...
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National Post

Silenced teacher becomes a hero of the anti-woke resistance

  • December 3, 2023
The most inspirational hero stories are about people who never aspired to the role, and never dreamed that heroism was their destiny. Carolyn Burjoski, a lifetime resident of Kitchener, Ont., was, un...
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National Post

How Quebec turned into a hotbed of antisemitism

  • November 19, 2023
On Sunday night, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante stated the obvious: “At this moment, the Jewish community is under attack in Montreal.” Bullets had been fired at two Jewish religiou...
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National Post

We Should Honour Leaders Who Defend Their Nation’s Cultural Terrain, Not Cancel Them

  • November 13, 2023
Events around the world, arising out of the Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel, have exposed multiculturalism’s core weakness, namely that ancient hatreds prevalent in certain cultures do not diss...
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The Epoch Times

The Bullying of Late Toronto Principal a Feature of DEI Training, Not a Bug

  • July 24, 2023
The untimely death by suicide of school principal Richard Bilkszto, 60 years of age, came as a shock even to observers closely engaged with his workplace difficulties and their multi-faceted fallout o...
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The Epoch Times

Breaking the ideological logjam over transgender youth health

  • July 23, 2023
For years it was possible for a politically neutral, reasonably well-informed Canadian or American to believe that prescribing puberty blockers to “pause” natural physical changes in gende...
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National Post

Finally, resistance to the woke anti-Canada narrative

  • July 8, 2023
On Canada Day, near St. Sauveur, Quebec, we were treated to torrential rain, hail, nearby tornado warnings, and continually flickering power. Not a day for fireworks. Just as well, since fireworks are...
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National Post

Lametti considers illiberal cone of silence over residential schools

  • June 25, 2023
In 2021, the Governor General assigned Kimberly Murray the role of special advisor to Justice Minister David Lametti on “Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Ind...
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National Post

"Doomography": The Trend of Plunging Fertility Rates Is Eroding Societal Well-Being

  • May 2, 2023
With an estimated 1.4 billion people, India’s population has drawn even with China’s, and will soon surpass it, as China’s population is in decline and aging, while India’s is ...
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The Epoch Times

Despite What Activists Claim, There’s No ‘Islamophobia Industry’ in Canada

  • December 23, 2022
In 2017, the Canadian Parliament voted in favour of Motion 103, a resolution which called for a committee to study a path to development for a “whole-of-government approach” to combating I...
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The Epoch Times

The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes

  • September 14, 2022
The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime companion illustrates the special burdens faced by royalty—and Elizabeth’s fitness to bear them The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime compani...
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Quillette

Parents in Every Province Should Be Badgering Politicians for Charter Schools

  • August 9, 2022
Commentary Growing old has its compensations. One is institutional memory. Having been educated in an era when “Western civilization” was not a trope to be spat out like a bad oyster, I w...
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The Epoch Times

The Governor General Is Supposed to Be Above the Political Fray

  • June 13, 2022
Commentary   The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee was both joyous and poignant. At 96, though still in general good health, the occasion’s honouree was herself unable to partake in some of ...
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The Epoch Times

Barbara Kay: Will Smith wasn't wrong to smack Chris Rock at the Oscars

  • March 28, 2022
One of the few TV constants in my life has been watching the Oscars. I never missed them, even when they got preachy. I still wanted to see the gowns. Except for this year. I decided I wasn’t up...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: Ukraine invasion and the forgotten virtues of duty and honour

  • March 27, 2022
At midday on Jan 20 1943, a little girl skipping on the playground of Sandhurst Road School in southeast London waved at what she thought was an RAF bomber. It was a German plane, whose pilot “s...
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National Post

Behind the Worrisome Promotion of Antisemitism in Communist China

  • February 23, 2022
Commentary There are approximately 3,000 Jews in China. In a population of a billion people, that’s a statistical rounding error. The overwhelming majority of Chinese people will neve...
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The Epoch Times

The high priests of woke hijack the hijab debate

  • January 2, 2022
Quebec’s Bill 21, which proscribes visible religious symbols in many public-sector jobs — popular with Quebec francophones, unpopular with Quebec and Canadian anglophones — was passe...
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National Post