A surreal tale of one man’s campaign against an academic field
An online war, led by a British national named Oliver D. Smith, has targeted the field of intelligence research. His campaign, abetted by a user-controlled website’s negligent policies, has led to devastating professional consequences for a number of academics working in this area. Most people are accustomed to online disinformation and cancel culture, but Smith is unique for combining both weapons against his perceived enemies.
Opposition MPs have raised questions about a meeting in April 2016 between the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and senior government officials in the building that houses the Prime Minister’s Office. It turns out the foundation had two more such meetings in the building, according to records seen by The Epoch Times.
Along with the April 2016 meeting, which was first reported by Montreal’s La Presse newspaper in April 2022, documents obtained through access to information indicate the foundation held another meeting in the building in January 2016 and a subsequent one in March 2017.
Given that he died in 1891, the facts of Sir John A. Macdonald’s life are unchangeable. The story of his life, however, has changed dramatically. For most of Canada’s history, Macdonald was considered a nation-builder worthy of celebration and veneration. Today he is a war criminal, at least to hear some tell it. But a proper and balanced consideration of Macdonald’s life reveals that, through his own actions and policies, Canada’s first prime minister was directly and deliberately responsible for saving the lives of untold numbers of Indigenous people. Given the temper of our times, this is not likely to be a popular notion. But that does not make it any less true.
When moving around London this week, it’s been impossible not to notice a symbol adorning the premises of many of our corporations, including the banks: the multicoloured Pride flag. We are living through the politicisation of our corporate sector. Woe betide you if you do not conform with its worldview.
This was brought home to me when I was recently told by my bank that it is closing all my accounts without explanation. It is impossible to function without a bank account. It should alarm everybody that a bank has the power to punish those it considers to have erred or strayed.
Censors cut out writers’ tongues and obliterate worlds
Avid readers are a small and dwindling minority of the population. But even they can’t be expected to understand what it means to have one’s book locked away by literary wardens, or manhandled by fat-fingered editors who rifle through typescript like policemen conducting a search — something that’s happening with alarming frequency in the US today.
On June 21, in a hot, crowded courtroom at Old Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto, the fight between Dr. Jordan Peterson and the College of Psychologists of Ontario played out.
The fight stems from an investigation by the regulator for clinical psychologists into statements Dr. Peterson had made on Twitter and on the Joe Rogan Podcast. The regulator ordered him to participate in a coaching program about professionalism in public comments, at his own expense, and for an indeterminate amount of time. He is now challenging that order for training (or as Dr. Peterson calls it, “re-education”) in a judicial review, which took place in the hearing this week. (A judicial review is when a court reviews an administrative decision, like the college’s decision to order training.)
St Paul’s Cathedral has provoked uproar by describing Sir Winston Churchill as an ‘unashamed imperialist’ and ‘white supremacist’ in an online post about Britain’s great wartime leader.
The cathedral, which was the venue for Sir Winston’s state funeral in 1965, removed the highly derogatory descriptions only last week after receiving complaints that they vilified a man voted as the greatest-ever Briton.
The Mail on Sunday understands the insulting description appeared on St Paul’s website for more than a year – but it remained unclear last night who was responsible for writing it.
Ernest Hemingway’s work has been given a trigger warning by publishers over concerns about his “language” and “attitudes”, the Telegraph can reveal.
The Nobel Prize-winning writer’s novels and short stories have been reissued by Penguin Random House with a new cautionary note.
Would-be readers of Hemingway are now warned about the “language” and “attitudes” contained in his writing, and alerted to the novelist’s “cultural representations”.
If you’ve ever engaged with a proponent of radical leftist ideology, you’ve probably experienced having your opinions dismissed because you’re a “cisgendered” person. It’s an awful lot like how, once upon a time, men’s opinions on abortion were summarily dismissed by the pro-abortion crowd because “men can’t get pregnant.”
Reconciliation statue at Arlington National Cemetery set to be destroyed
In the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement sparked in 2020 by the murder of George Floyd, Congress required the Department of Defense to create a commission to evaluate the ways the military continued to honor the Confederacy.
The duties of the “naming commission” were to assess the “cost of renaming or removing names, symbols, displays, monuments or paraphernalia that commemorate the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.”
h/t Mauser
“Monty Python” star and British comedy legend John Cleese has lashed out at the press in recent days for allegedly reporting that he will be removing a politically incorrect scene from future adaptations of his movie “Life of Brian” to avoiding offending the trans community.
Ever since Fox News took Tucker Carlson off the air last month, there has been widespread speculation about his future plans. Networks like Newsmax quickly offered a home to him and his show, though it was later revealed that Tucker is still technically employed by Fox News, and thus, still under contract. Carlson is reportedly suing the network for breach of contract and to achieve his release, and he has since revealed his intention to bring his show directly to Twitter.
Jamie Sarkonak: Egale, the Liberal-funded charity trying to ban Fox News
The rights organization that asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to ban Fox News gets the majority of its money from government.
It’s an awfully lucrative funding stream for an organization that happens to call for the silencing of the federal government’s ideological opponents. While federal funding certainly isn’t a death sentence for credibility, it’s something to be mindful of — especially when that money is new, and especially when the recipient seems to align with government on many issues.
Grade 11 student Josh Alexander of Renfrew, Ont., has received international attention for an ongoing struggle with his Catholic school board over his belief that God made only two genders. His parents, who are teachers in a separate board, have recently been put on leave and are under investigation. They suspect it’s because of the attention their son has gotten.
“From the beginning, I understood the consequences my actions may have and I was willing to take that stand and face the consequences,” Alexander told The Epoch Times. “But I must admit, I’m pretty disappointed to see that since they haven’t been able to get to me, they’re now attacking my family.”
Toronto Beach school called out for posting ‘mega exclusionary’ Mother’s Day message
Some parents in Toronto’s east end are calling out a local school for posting what they claim was a “harmful” and “exclusionary” Mother’s Day greeting on its outdoor message board.
