Getting to the heart of what M-103 was always all aboutWednesday March 14th, 2018
On Feb. 1, the National Heritage Committee submitted the report called for by the passage of M-103 last winter.M-103 surprised its backers when it turned out not to be the slam dunk they thought it would be, given that its founding predecessor document, Petition e-411, which called for a “whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religion, including Is...
P is for Progressivism: also for Posters, Privilege, Parents and PushbackMonday March 12th, 2018
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There’s no safe space on campus to debate bathroom politicsTuesday March 6th, 2018
Heather Brown, a third year Business student at Trent University, is no transphobe. She takes a live-and-let-live approach in gender matters.But Trent has instituted a policy of gender-neutral washrooms, and Brown balks at sharing intimate space with members of the biologically opposite sex. She discovered that expression of her discomfort is more than unwelcome on her campus; it has literal...
What Elephants Can teach us About Gun Violence and “Toxic Masculinity”Monday March 5th, 2018
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Collapse of basic fact-checking helps feed the fake-news narrativeWednesday February 21st, 2018
Fake news is a big problem. Increasingly, serious citizens look to mainstream media for responsible reportage. When media betrays the public’s trust, it’s scary. And the media does fall short, sadly, both in matters large, which arouse public ire, and in matters that are only apparently small, and don’t. Not by publishing purposefully fake news, but by publishing “new...
Delaware students can now choose their own race. This should end wellTuesday February 13th, 2018
The state of Delaware is poised to adopt what is known as “Regulation 225.” Approved both by the Delaware State Education Association and Gov. John Carney, Regulation 225 would safeguard children’s “protected characteristics,” such as gender, age, race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Section 7.4(1) of 225’s Prohibition of Discrimination Code state...
Progressive Jews should respect the opinions of othersTuesday February 13th, 2018
The Feb. 8 issue of The CJN featured an irate letter to the editor signed by 26 readers, including several rabbis (including my own), who were incensed by my last column, which argued that basic Torah principles on hot-button gender issues – unfettered abortion, gay marriage and gender fluidity – have been sacrificed by progressive Jews on the altar of political correctness. By “principle...
Trans Pronouns are more than the sum of their parts (of speech)Wednesday February 7th, 2018
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The #MeToo court of public opinion needs some ground rules, fastTuesday January 30th, 2018
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s courtship of his wife, Chirlane McCray, has all the makings of a Hollywood romcom. They met in 1991 when she started working at New York City Hall. He — according to a 2013 New York Times profile on the story, a “lanky, bearded operative across the building” — was instantly attracted to her, but she had “zero interest”...
Raheel Raza is fighting against Islamic ExtremistsTuesday January 30th, 2018
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Forget “Be fruitful and multiply”. Today it’s “Be fruitless and subtract” – or elseWednesday January 24th, 2018
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B.C. school official protests ‘transgender education’ — and pays the priceWednesday January 24th, 2018
Barry Neufeld, a long-time trustee of British Columbia’s Chilliwack School District, hadn’t planned to find himself at the centre of a legal battle, whose outcome could have far-reaching consequences for gender-related teaching programs across Canada.But on Jan. 22, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF, on whose board I sit), announced it will be defending Neufeld...
THE TORAH AND TRANSGENDERISMFriday January 19th, 2018
In our liturgy, the Torah is referred to as the “tree of life.” But although it’s rich in general guiding principles, the Torah is paradoxically terse or mute on several of our era’s hottest issues: abortion, gay marriage and transgenderism.
These issues share two common denominators: all reverse or thwart natural procreation, and all have become litmus tests for left-wing ideologues. As a resu...
Canadians don’t need a ‘National Day’ scolding us for being IslamophobicWednesday January 17th, 2018
The federal government has been asked by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) to declare Jan. 29, the first anniversary of a murderous attack on a Quebec mosque that left six dead and several others injured, a “National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia.”
The word Islamophobia is something of a trigger to some of us, as NCCM knows well. The group was in...
Fighting off the chill (no pun intended) against skeptical climate scienceTuesday January 16th, 2018
Yes, the Earth is warming. How much and how fast is so far all hypothesis. It is therefore imperative that scientists be free to debate each other’s theories
Baby, it was cold outside. I’ve felt grateful the past few weeks that I live in a draft-free house with a reliable furnace. Another reason for gratitude: the recent record-breaking low temperatures served to embarras...
The Left’s Siege of Our UniversitiesTuesday January 9th, 2018
Below is Barbara Kay's review of David Horowitz’s new book, “The Left in the Universities" which is volume 8 of The Black Book of the American Left, a multi-volume collection of David Horowitz's conservative writings that will, when completed, be the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to define the Left and its agenda. (Order HERE.) We encourage our ...
Getting to the heart of what M-103 was always all about
Wednesday March 14th, 2018
P is for Progressivism: also for Posters, Privilege, Parents and Pushback
Monday March 12th, 2018
Progressive Jews should respect the opinions of others
Tuesday February 13th, 2018
The Left’s Siege of Our Universities
Tuesday January 9th, 2018