Iconic American intellectual Norman Podhoretz died earlier this month, peacefully at 95. Reading this news, I recalled a luncheon conversation with my then collea...
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One of Trump’s first executive orders (EO) was the “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” act. But EOs are only tenure-long. Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill (51 to 45) ...
Roger Foley is a leading activist for the rights of the disabled, including his own. A hero to associations for the disabled, he is often considered a thorn in the side of health bureaucrats. Recently...
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...
Universities are ground zero for the most virulent strains of antisemitism that plague the West today. But within them, some clusters are more problematic than others. Above all, the widespread antise...
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...
Last week, some 4,000 participants from over 40 countries demanded humanitarian aid access to Gaza, via Egypt’s heavily fortified border crossing at Rafah. An advance group of 200 (including a n...
Islamism — defined most benignly as “the belief that Islam should influence political systems”— is, according to Joe Adam George, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Nation...
It’s fine for political leaders to project general visions of Canadian excellence in a future that’s suddenly shorn of American friendship and protection. But national excellence, prosperi...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
“Sugarcane,” an award-winning Canadian documentary billed as an investigation into “a pattern of infanticide” in a B.C. residential school, has been short-listed for a 2025 Aca...
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...
Well, I admit I didn’t see that one coming. I’m referring, of course, to Mark Carney’s gaffe at a Calgary campaign stop, where he responded to a protester’s yell that there was...
What constitutes true leadership? The lowest bar, it seems to me, would — following a horrific event abroad (October 7) that sparked knock-on mayhem at home, fomented by hate-messaging, terror-s...
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...
In February, the western world was shocked when a TikTok video exposed two Australian nurses, Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, openly reviling Jews and Israelis, insinuating they...
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...