It is hard to overstate the illiberal nature of Ontario’s Bill 67, the Racial Equity in the Education System Act, now headed for third reading and certain passage. The ostensible purpose of ...
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Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive cluster of notions that reduces human beings to cogs in an identity wheel, segregates them according to DNA, and strips them of individual agency a...
This episode was recorded on 03/09/202
Canadian Bill 67, which purports to be nothing but an "anti-racist" bill, is in fact the most pernicious and dangerous piece of legislation that any Canadian go...
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Canadian commentators have been scathing in their assessment of the disparity between Justin Trudeau’s lofty Ukraine-related rhetoric—“unwavering and steadfast support&rd...
"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Samuel Johnson’s famous dictum may also be applied to the war in Ukraine. The stu...
I see in my neighbourhood weekly paper that girls’ registration at the Westmount Soccer Club has dropped “significantly.” Girls have not been registering at the soccer club at the sa...
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...
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...
The Freedom Convoy’s sojourn in Ottawa, culminating in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “Just watch me (Daddy)” moment in proclaiming the Emergencies Act, revealed a huge iceber...
During a comedy tour 10 years ago, Quebec comedian Mike Ward mocked a child by the name of Jérémy Gabriel with specific regard to Gabriel’s rare medical condition, Treacher Collins...
Grandmotherhood turned out to be quite different from my fantasies.
One fantasy I entertained was that I would pass along my love of reading books by reading ...
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In March, West Virginia passed legislation entrenching a “rebuttable presumption” that, following separation, parents will enjoy equal time with their child(ren). Tha...
In March I (remotely) attended an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal hearing. This was the culmination of a story I have followed since a complaint of sex-based discrimination against the Ottawa-Carl...
The ugly war in Ukraine has forced a long-overdue reckoning with the pathetic state of our military. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered Ukraine’s President Zelensky “unwavering and stea...
My readers are well aware of the contempt in which I hold forced DEI programs, equity quotas for minority groups, and compelled speech that reifies commitment to inclusivity. But that ...
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Misleading language is a friend to tyrants, for whom it works as a placebo against public unrest. In Russia, the charged words “war against Ukraine” are forbidden. Russians mus...
On Pipers and Paying them (Apr 2022)
Trigger warning: this post’s theme necessarily puts me in a good light that may seem like humble bragging. I guess i...
Passover is a joyous holiday in Judaism, but historically, it is also associated with tragedy wrought by antisemitic blood libels.
Amongst the most notorious is the medieval libel that matzo ...
On Oct 4, 2017, Parliament’s House of Commons voted 277-0 to pass the Canadian version of the Global Magnitsky Act.
This historic human rights act, first passed in the U.S. in 2012, allows gove...
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A 2021 report on Canadian women and girls in sport found that one in four girls who had participated at least once a week in sport before COVID-19 had not returned when restrictions ...