The complicated truth about transwomen in women’s prisonsMonday June 21st, 2021
For five decades, thanks to feminism and The Pill, women’s cultural standing and fortunes advanced steadily. At long last respect! Then, gender ideologues decreed that men who identify as women “are” women, with all the attendant rights due to them such an affirmation implies.
Astonishingly, without demur, in the name of “inclusion,” our cultural and political elites fell in with this self-e...
Transgender weightlifter may expose the unfairness of trans athletes in TokyoMonday June 7th, 2021
There are nine trans athletes hoping to compete at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer. All of them — whether born male or female — are seeking spots on women’s teams (transgenderism is a non-issue in men’s sport).
Only one of the nine is assured a berth: New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, now 43, who made her first lift in international women’s sport in March 2017, and ...
Antisemitism: The Haters Have Changed, but the Hatred Hasn’tTuesday June 1st, 2021
Commentary
It has been a difficult time of late for Jews everywhere. Combatantisemitism.org (CAM) reports that antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom have increased 600 percent, while “dozens” of alarming incidents have taken place in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Vienna, and across North America.
Canadian Jews have been profoundly shaken by a level of expressive antisemitism—geno...
Anti-Semitism: The Haters Have Changed, but the Hatred Hasn’tTuesday June 1st, 2021
Commentary
It’s been a difficult time of late for Jews everywhere. CombatAntiSemitism.org (CAM) reports that anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have increased 600 percent, while “dozens” of alarming incidents have taken place in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Vienna, and across North America.
Canadian Jews have been profoundly shaken by a level of expressive anti-Semitism—genocidal ...
Let’s stop pretending the left’s disdain for Israel has anything to do with politicsWednesday May 26th, 2021
Public Jew-baiting is out of control in the United Kingdom and Europe. And in Canada’s big cities, unprecedented displays of anti-Semitism, including physical violence that has been well documented in these pages, has given Jewish-Canadians a taste of the rage that European Jews have faced for decades.
Nobody with eyes to see can press on with the myth that this is a political conflict. The ...
Head of Canada's progressive 'Anti-Hate' network warns of 'sick rumours of violence aimed at Jews' after recent antisemitic violenceSaturday May 22nd, 2021
Hamas can't win a military war against Israel, but every time they start one, the virus of antisemitism, for which there is no vaccine, and whose ever-more vicious strains spread farther and faster by the day.
In every major city of North America and Europe, last week's anti-Israel rallies turned ugly in a way we in Canada have not seen before, with rock-throwing, Israel flag burning and...
Mobbing of medical resident reveals double standards for social justiceMonday May 17th, 2021
Zachary Kuehner began his medical education in Thunder Bay and moved to St. John's in 2018 to specialize in family medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). There he fell victim to a ruthless mobbing campaign that put him through a bruising "remediation" wringer, and came close to ending his career in medicine.
Kuehner's case interested me particularly because of a common th...
America is not a racist country and critical race theory is bunkMonday May 10th, 2021
On April 28 U.S. president Joe Biden gave his first address to Congress. It will be remembered less for its content than for Black South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott’s charged words in response to it.
“Hear me clearly,” Scott said. “America is not a racist country.” He didn’t say there is no racism in America. Scott himself has encountered racist be...
The divisive politics of COVID lead to vaccine hesitancySaturday May 8th, 2021
For the life of me—and it could be the life of me at stake—I am amazed at how many people are balking at COVID vaccination.
I am not talking about anti-vaxxers in general, with whom it is futile to debate. I am talking about the specific vaccines for this specific virus and its variants. Normally I am all for individuals enjoying the greatest liberty possible. But the evidenc...
O’Toole Has a Real Chance in Election if He Can Get the Support of WomenMonday May 3rd, 2021
Commentary
Justin Trudeau has proved himself incompetent in a crisis and lurches from scandal to scandal. And yet his poll numbers point to a 93 percent likelihood of a majority (50 percent) or minority (43 percent) Liberal government in the next election. How to explain it?
My Liberal-voting friends—including those who are presently alienated from Trudeau for his multiple failures of l...
Gad Saad — the man who’s not afraid to call BSFriday April 23rd, 2021
A keen American observer of the human condition once described his rhetorical vocation as, “Standing off on the sidelines, viewing the various public escapades — political, cultural, social — and calling out with some regularity, ‘Bulls–t! Bulls–t! Bulls–t!’”
Although one could never describe Canadian academic and public intellectual Gad Sa...
Findings that 'systemic racism' doesn't exist in the UK met with fury by anti-racist activistsFriday April 23rd, 2021
In the United Kingdom, a significant mobbing is in progress. If the dignified black man the mob has targeted is discredited and toppled, it will be a setback for all who value disinterested research in support of constructive political action. It will also be a setback for blacks in Britain.
In July, responding to a wave of Black Lives Matter protests in America that had spread t...
Without exemptions to protect women in prison, gender identity laws are unconstitutionalMonday April 12th, 2021
Canada’s federal prisons for women were once like men’s: cells, high security, guards with guns. But following the suicides of seven female inmates between 1989 and 1991 (all but one Indigenous), inquiries led to the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women, culminating in a report, Creating Choices. As a result, six regional women’s prisons were created whose infrastructure and policies reflec...
In Service of Progressive Values, US Military Has Become Detached From RealityMonday April 5th, 2021
Commentary
To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, U.S. President Biden honoured women in the U.S. military. “We’re making good progress designing body armour that fits women properly; tailoring combat uniforms for women; creating maternity flight suits; updating—updating requirements for their hairstyles,” he boasted.
Maternity flight suits? The idea provoked Fox News host Tucker...
Woody Allen is not the enemy—he is a distractionSunday April 4th, 2021
I was happy to read Cathy Young's lucid, thoroughly-researched and persuasive critique of the misleading HBO documentary "Allen vs Farrow." Amongst many other excellent points, Young notes that pedophiles are creatures of pattern. Before former partner Mia Farrow's allegation that Woody sexually abused his adoptive daughter Dylan at the age of seven, Woody had never before been accuse...
In the progressive era, even literary critics aren’t safeMonday March 29th, 2021
In 1981, Toni Morrison wrote, “If there were better criticism, there would be better books.” Better can mean negative — sometimes even harsh — criticism. There was a time when that was received wisdom. No longer.
John Metcalf, a transplant to Montreal from England, has for 55 years toiled in Canada’s various literary vineyards: teaching, editing (300-plus books), publishing (Porcupine Press ...
Government-sponsored erasure of women's rights advances with the word 'female' being banned on International Women's DaySunday March 21st, 2021
According to research on the "cancellation" of conservative thinkers in academia, gender-critical academics are the most beleaguered of all. In his recent Quillette article, "The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data," University of London professor Eric Kaufmann writes, "just 28 percent of American and Canadian academics, and barely a third of British academics, would ha...
Birth of a new resistance: Parents mobilize to tackle woke ideologyFriday March 12th, 2021
Riverdale Country School is one of New York City’s — and therefore America’s — most elite private schools. Last June the school administration sent a memo to parents alerting them to curriculum changes that would reflect “the responsibility to use our privilege to fight for change.”
At the first assembly in September, instead of the school’s traditiona...
Switzerland votes to ban the niqab in publicTuesday March 9th, 2021
Switzerland takes direct democracy very seriously, often putting questions of public policy to the public in the form of a national or regional referendum requiring a 50 percent threshold for passage.
Sometimes the results accord with the government's preferred policy, sometimes not. In 2009, Swiss citizens resisted government advice and voted to ban the building of minarets, agreeing wi...
Quebec, France Resistant to Encroaching ‘Woke’ IdeologyMonday March 8th, 2021
Commentary
Last month, Quebec Premier François Legault took to Facebook to criticize “radical activists” who he said are taking political correctness to extremes. He was in part reacting to the suspension last September of a francophone University of Ottawa professor for using the N-word in class.
“If we don’t defend someone who is a victim of this, we’re playing the game of the radical...
The complicated truth about transwomen in women’s prisons
Monday June 21st, 2021
Antisemitism: The Haters Have Changed, but the Hatred Hasn’t
Tuesday June 1st, 2021
Head of Canada's progressive 'Anti-Hate' network warns of 'sick rumours of violence aimed at Jews' after recent antisemitic violence
Saturday May 22nd, 2021
