The forces of “decolonization” took one more historical victim last week in Oshawa, Ont. That’s where the city council moved to change the name of Bagot Street, which it believes — but isn’t even entirely sure — was named in honour of Charles Bagot, the governor general of the united Province of Canada from 1841 to 1843.
These rapists of history should be tossed headfirst down an outhouse.
It’s not Canadian bubble tea company Bobba that should be apologizing for the nonsensical allegation of cultural appropriation.
I don’t think I’m going to encounter much difficulty boycotting Simu’s movies.
An elderly school trustee who questioned trans ideology has been subjected to a legal witch-hunt.
Under other circumstances, former school trustee Barry Neufeld may have retired as one of your curmudgeonly, albeit amusing, elderly neighbours, equipped with a brash sense of humour, a glass of wine and a cigarette. Had he not introduced himself at a recent panel event I spoke on in Victoria, British Columbia (BC) about the harms of gender-identity ideology, I would never have pegged him as a supposed hate-monger. He seemed rather jovial, in fact. Yet the Canadian media and some of Canada’s most powerful unions see things differently. They have made Neufeld their nemesis.
A few blocks from the US Capitol, Union Station has for years been a hotspot for homeless encampments. The contrast between the enormous Beaux-Arts train station and the men sleeping beneath its awnings has been the punchline of many a joke about elite hypocrisy. The men and women whose policy decisions are blamed for such public disorder consider it unkind, even gauche, to discuss the problem.
It’s here that one of America’s most controversial writers, Steve Sailer, spoke Thursday evening, the latest stop on his long journey back toward the conservative mainstream.
The city council of Pickering, Ont., has voted to sanction one of its members for the third time in just over a year.
Coun. Lisa Robinson was given a 90-day pay penalty last month, which comes after she was given a 60-day penalty in October 2023, following a previous 30-day suspension in September 2023. It is the most severe penalty the council can impose.
Mount Royal University’s decision to fire a controversial tenured professor in 2021 was disproportionate, even if her conduct did warrant discipline, an arbitrator has ruled.
The decision, which runs more than 300 pages, was delivered in July. It concerns 10 grievances filed by the professor, Frances Widdowson, and the Mount Royal Faculty Association, tied to Widdowson’s dismissal on Dec. 20, 2021.
The hearing’s main focus was not on comments from Widdowson that made headlines in 2020, when she suggested there were educational benefits to Canada’s residential school system and complained the Black Lives Matter movement had “destroyed” MRU — though she now says the statement about BLM was intended to be hyperbolic.
The only controversy here was the insane reaction of the university and her colleagues.
The fact that I have been required to undergo an open-ended course of re-education in social media use by the body that regulates my profession in Ontario, the College of Psychologists and Behavioural Analysts, is both a matter of public record and something that has become relatively well known. Recently, however, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that I had no right to appeal that decision. That decision exhausted the legal avenues open to me concerning this matter.
A church is embroiled in a free speech row after sacking a vicar who ran an anti-woke YouTube channel.
Breakaway Anglican denomination, the Free Church of England (FCE), dismissed the Rev Brett Murphy last month after ruling that the “nature and tone” of videos he posted online had brought the church “into disrepute”.
The FCE took issue with the vicar using the term “witch” to refer to female priests.
“It is almost four years old now. The madly insane efforts to silence the album are somehow indications of its power,” Morrissey tells me. “Otherwise, who would bother to get so overheated about an inconspicuous recluse?”
“The album” in question is Bonfire of Teenagers, the former Smiths singer’s 14th solo album that he completed back in May 2021, when Britain was emerging from its third Covid lockdown, but has yet to see the light of day. The lost album was set to feature contributions from craggy rocker Iggy Pop, half of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and, tantalisingly, Tennessee pop superstar Miley Cyrus. The “inconspicuous recluse” is Morrissey himself. He’s being disingenuous, of course.
Bellevue House has regrettably become one more battlefield in the Liberal government’s endless war on Canada’s past. It also reveals the apparent requirement under the Trudeau government’s reconciliation policy that indigenous opinion be inserted into all possible government activities and institutions, regardless of relevance or factual accuracy. It makes for a rather odd visitor experience.
Former Abbotsford School District (ASD) teacher Jim McMurtry, who was fired for challenging the narrative about unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, encouraged people to order an orange T-shirt asking about them.
McMurtry had purchased one of the orange T-shirts, which can be worn to commemorate children who died in residential schools.
It appears that freedom of speech is under attack all across the western world. One only has to look at Britain or Ireland to see draconian crackdowns by governments against speech they don’t like. As is typical in these times, it is “woke” leftist governments that are mainly engaging in this behaviour.
A U.S. comedian forced to end his show early in Regina by a diversity advocate has promised a “Banned in Canada Comedy Special” soon as an “American middle finger” to the “cold weather dictator” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The refusal of the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the appeal of Jordan Peterson against the outrageous aggregation of injustices that have been inflicted upon him by academic and professional authorities and the lower courts neatly completes the self-exposure of the bankruptcy of our system of protection of civil rights — everyone’s civil rights. This treatment of Professor Peterson, Canada’s leading public intellectual and probably the most famous and esteemed Canadian in the world, is extremely important for what his case reveals and its implications for all Canadians.
Not so long ago, I left my phone behind in a taxi late one night. Drink had been taken and it took me a while to notice my loss, by which time the cab in question was many miles away. I phoned my phone more out of form than hope that it wouldn’t already have been re-SIMmed and heading to an exciting new life. To my surprise and delight, a very well-spoken young man picked it up, and invited me to come to collect it the next morning from Walthamstow in east London.
