Enoch Burke has two weeks to launch an appeal after he was dismissed from his teaching post yesterday, following a chaotic disciplinary hearing.
Mr Burke is entitled to appeal within ten working days after Thursday’s ‘stage 4’ hearing to decide if he should be fired.
The teacher, who spent three months in prison for defying a court order to stay away from his school following a row that started over the preferred pronouns of a transgender pupil, was informed of the decision yesterday.
A minor league hockey player is refusing to be silent about the LGBT agenda after getting dismissed from his team for pointing out another club’s embrace of wokeism.
“It’s a full-on mafia. They have organizations under their grasp,” 28-year-old Louie Rowe told LifeSite yesterday. “If it had any grounds in morality, you would not need power to force acceptance.”
“Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,” reads Christ’s eighth beatitude in the Gospel of Matthew. It is perhaps the beatitude most often viewed as a remnant of the ancient world among modern Americans, as persecution of the faithful has been remarkably absent in this country. Every now and then, though, a news story reminds us Christ’s proclamation is just as important as ever.
“As we approach the one-year anniversary of the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy,’ the last thing we need is a spokesperson of the far-right taking centre stage in our city,” said Jaime Sadgrove, manager of communications and advocacy for the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, one of 36 local organizations calling for the cancellation of the event in an open letter.
Last week in this space, I inveighed against the College of Psychologists of Ontario’s assault upon the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of my eminent friend and probably Canada’s greatest contemporary public intellectual, Dr. Jordan Peterson. Continuing in the same theme, I’ve been looking at this creeping and under-publicized phenomenon of professional and craft organizations stifling and regimenting their members, in particular the struggle that has been conducted for the last six years between the supporters of the Statement of Principles, the so-called SOP, and its resisters in the Law Society of Ontario, (the Bar of Ontario), generally known as StopSOP. No one would seriously dispute that these professions and all learned or skilled associations of specialists do require some level of group regulation to oversee admission and standards, and that, in principle, it is better to come from associations led by people elevated by and answerable to those pursuing the relevant occupations, rather than indulging the current ravening public sector ambition to impose its fiat on all of society like an attacking swarm of Sheridan battle tanks.
What to do with Sir John A. Macdonald?
An 1894 statue of the country’s founding prime minister that towers over the top of University Avenue on the grounds of the legislature has been boarded up since 2020 following several incidents of vandalism.
Dozens of small shoes lay it its feet in silent protest over the unmarked graves of Indigenous children at residential schools and Macdonald’s role in creating an education system likened to apartheid and genocide.
Sir John A – Worse Than Hitler! How about unboxing our heritage and arresting anyone who dares deface the statue?
Conservative party Leader Pierre Poilievre defended his decision Friday to speak to a think tank that has come under fire for comments on residential schools and discrimination.
“We speak with groups all the time with which we disagree,” Poilievre said in an interview after his speech to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg.
In 2018, the centre ran radio ads, which were soon pulled, that said it was a myth residential schools robbed Indigenous children of their childhood.
Last summer, the centre posted a commentary on its website that said stories about murdered and secretly buried residential schoolchildren are highly suspicious, if not completely false. And last month, the centre posted an article that said anti-white male policies represent the only systemic discrimination there is.
The music industry is quick to embrace artists who shoot people or sell drugs. Commit those crimes and record companies may still offer a lucrative record deal.
But what’s one action that the industry finds too offensive? Appearing on a conservative podcast, apparently.
For Jordan Peterson, it’s a full circle journey.
The popular speaker and author became a household name while protesting gender pronouns during his days at the University of Toronto. After years of international notoriety and millions of books sold, the educator and clinical psychologist is back to where it all started.
Goodbye quidditch, hello quadball: Why Canadian teams are closing the book on Harry Potter
Quidditch Canada will formally launch its rebranding of “quidditch” to “quadball” at the governing body’s annual general meeting in February, aligning with international counterparts who began the name-change process last year in the wake of controversial comments about the transgender community by author J.K. Rowling.
Cancel culture is in its own way democratic. Woke mobs—social media jackals or institutional flacks—don’t care whether their target for immolation is male or female, famous or obscure, a leading intellectual light or a plodding time-server. All their targets have in common is an audience. A classroom, a Twitter account, a pulpit. The pilot light of their righteous wrath never sleeps. Perceived thoughtcrimes are their tinder.
The latest of a dismal sequence of outrages and oppressive acts officiously imposed upon the very distinguished and widely admired academic, clinical psychologist and public intellectual, Jordan Peterson, is an intervention by the College of Psychologists of Ontario purporting to require Peterson to undergo a lengthy course of “media training,” in order that he might conduct his online communications “more appropriately.” This is a stupefying insolence from a professional body intent on pettifogging and harassing an extraordinarily successful colleague. Jordan Peterson has had an impeccable professional reputation throughout his 20 years as a research psychologist at Harvard University and the University of Toronto. He has immense clinical experience and his pioneering work in bringing psychology to a vast worldwide internet audience, including 15-million people all over the world who follow him on three different social media platforms, has made serious psychology much more accessible.
Jordan Peterson, the renowned or controversial psychologist (the adjective depends on your point of view and, with Peterson, everyone has a view) has embarked on what is destined to be a titanic battle between himself and the Ontario College of Psychologists.
Wokeism has destroyed Canada. We knew the situation was bad when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts of protesters in order to silence political action against his regime’s appalling abuses of human rights. It became unsalvageable when Trudeau followed up this behaviour by speaking about his love of China’s dictatorial powers over citizens.
Long gone are the days of suffocating niceness from our northern cousins. Now, professionals who disagree on social media with Canada’s ruling elite find themselves ruthlessly threatened by institutions that are meant to stand for liberty of thought.
The practice of psychology in Ontario, and in many other North American and western jurisdictions, is subject to regulation by “professional colleges” — essentially governmental organizations with a mandate to protect the public from misconduct on the part of physicians, lawyers, social workers, dentists, pharmacists, teachers, architects and many others, including (and most relevant to me) clinical psychologists.
