Suggestions for the new Ontario sex-ed curriculumTuesday July 3rd, 2018
Doug Ford’s victory was in some measure due to his promise — I believe a heartfelt one — to repeal the sex ed curriculum in Ontario schools. I assume there’s a replacement program in the works. A sex-ed vacuum is not politically tenable, or even what most conservative parents want.
What principles will undergird a Doug Ford inspired curriculum? I’d suggest four gu...
Progressives support Racist Policies targeting Asian-Americans to Protect the Big Lie at the Heart of MulticulturalismSunday July 1st, 2018
New York’s super-progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio has pledged to get rid of the Specialized High School Admissions Test, the rigorous entrance exam that has, up to now, been the sole determinant for entry into New York’s elite high schools.
De Blasio is concerned that the current demographics in elite schools like Stuyvesant High and Bronx Science, previously mostly white, is ske...
UBC had a #MeToo bloodletting. It was a disaster for everyoneTuesday June 26th, 2018
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson’s macabre 1948 tale illuminating the human tendency to conform with evil, ranks high amongst American short stories. The ending is unforgettably shocking: as the ritual climax to a harvest festival, a lottery “winner” is stoned to death by the victim’s fellow townspeople.Jackson’s cautionary tale sprang to mind with the cultural ston...
In Their Own Voices: Former feminists Explain Their Rejection of FeminismSaturday June 23rd, 2018
Last week in this space I reviewed the recently published, Sons of Feminism: Men have their say, an anthology of essays and narratives by men from all walks of life and provenance, describing the various ways in which feminism had negatively impacted their lives. As promised, this week I am reviewing Daughters of Feminism: Women supporting men’s equality, its companion volume, edited by gender...
In Their Own Voices: Feminism’s Invisible VictimsSaturday June 16th, 2018
“Why Can’t We Hate Men?”, authored by academic feminist Suzanna D. Walters, contains many falsehoods. But Walters’ most ridiculous assertion therein was “The world has little place for feminist anger.”
This is arrant nonsense. For on the gender file in the western world, at least, there is little room for anything else but feminist anger.
In fact, the welcome given to Walters’ sexist di...
The male crisis that’s ruining our boys and no one cares aboutWednesday June 13th, 2018
Father’s Day approaches and with it the opportunity to consider the importance of fathers to their children.It is difficult to overstate both the positive effects of growing up with a father and the negative effects of father absence, especially for boys. These myriad benefits and perils are on record, undisputed and easily accessible. But in this gynocentric era, what is good or bad fo...
Is Motherhood Mainly Motivation for Misery? The New York Times seems to Think SoFriday June 8th, 2018
Last month, the New York Times marked the occasion of Mothers Day with “Stories of Motherhood, Told by Six Women.” Women readers had been solicited to share their experiences of becoming a mother, and 1300 submissions came in, from which the editors chose six. All were thematically united in dissatisfaction or suffering, as the titles make clear: “The World was Hers. Then She Became a Mom”; “Wh...
Sarcasm is the Jewish swordFriday June 8th, 2018
Two American giants exited the literary world in May: Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth. Apart from their brilliance in mapping America’s social and cultural landscape, they could not have been more different in temperament and style. Roth’s writing was intensely personal, mordant and Jewishly obsessed; Wolfe’s was detached, exuberant and cosmopolitan. It is not by coincidence that Wolfe was a gentile ...
A celebrated figure today could well be the condemned sinner of tomorrowTuesday June 5th, 2018
It was a happy day for the Winnipeg Pakistani community at the recent official opening of a park named for Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan in 1948. The ceremonies were presided over by Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Canada, Tariq Azim Khan, in company with MPs Terry Duguid and Iqra Khalid, who congratulated everyone present on this milestone.Thirty years ago, such an even...
In its Obsession with Silencing Tommy Robinson, a Pusillanimous Establishment Abandons Treasured British Ideal of ‘Fair Play’Thursday May 31st, 2018
May 25 will be marked as a day of infamy for British justice. On that day, political activist Tommy Robinson was arrested outside a Leeds courthouse, where, as a citizen journalist employing normal journalistic strategies, he was livestreaming commentary to Facebook, as several Muslim defendants involved in infamous grooming gangs arrived for their trial proceeding.Robinson was doing nothing il...
A new documentary gives ammunition to the sugar-is-deadly warriorsWednesday May 30th, 2018
For decades, the low-fat diet has been to health and weight as Marxism to political governance: a catastrophic failure. People are fatter and sicker than ever. Why? Because lowering fat intake results in compensatory carb intake. Especially sugar. And sugar makes you fat and unhealthy. But, like Marxists, lipophobes will never admit their first premises are wrong, even when confronted by inc...
Do Toronto’s Forest Hill Collegiate Institute and the Toronto District School Board have a ‘Jewish Problem’? The Optics Are not GoodFriday May 25th, 2018
I grew up in Forest Hill Village, which was, and is, a posh Toronto neighbourhood. My sisters and I, therefore, spent our formative years in the Forest Hill public school system: first South Prep (“Preparatory”), then West Prep, then South Prep Middle School and ending with five years at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute (FHCI).
I have very fond memories of FHCI, where I felt ...
Hamas will always win the PR war, even as Israel wins the military victoriesTuesday May 22nd, 2018
In his May 16 column, Terry Glavin takes Israel to task for the deaths and injuries of Gazan Palestinians sustained in the border clashes he concedes that Hamas orchestrated.Yes, Glavin understands that “Hamas exists for the sole purpose of doing violence to Israel and to Israelis.” Yes, clearly “what (Hamas) failed to accomplish with its rockets and tunnels, it is now prep...
Israelis hold their fire as long as they can. Hamas writes cheques after mass suicidesFriday May 18th, 2018
There’s an old French proverb which, translated, reads: “This animal is very bad; when you attack it, it defends itself.” There is only one “animal” — politically speaking — that inspires this curious strain of logic, but it does so over and over again. Israel. Alone of the nations, Israel draws condemnation for doing what every other nation in the w...
When Trans fanaticism joins with Political Arrogance, Freedom of Expression is the VictimTuesday May 15th, 2018
Politics makes strange bedfellows, a truism I am presently experiencing in real time as I find myself on social media supporting TERFs – Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists – in their battle against Trans ideologues regarding the charged question(s): Who/What is a woman?
The lines of that battle are pretty simply drawn.
Trans ideologues uphold one entirely subjective cri...
The embassy move only angers the usual suspects. Even the Arab leaders have bigger problems nowTuesday May 15th, 2018
So Israel’s U.S. embassy is where it belongs: Jerusalem, Israel’s eternal capital. It took its sweet time getting there, but, thanks to the last person on Earth most Americans want to credit for any foreign-affairs success, Donald Trump, there it is. Mazel tov.The usual suspects are bruiting their dismay and/or outrage, convinced that the embassy gambit will act as a provocation ...
MP Christine Moore Reluctantly Provides NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh With a Teaching Moment in the Use of the Word “Survivor”Thursday May 10th, 2018
In a man-bites-dog version of the usual #MeToo pattern of male aggressor, female victim, NDP MP for Abitibi-Kamiskimingue Christine Moore has been accused of serious sexual misconduct.
Unusual in itself, the story is particularly noteworthy because Moore has established herself as a righteous warrior in this normally dog-bites-man domain. On to the story momentarily. First, the set-up th...
We’ve forgotten how bad Communism was. Identity politics reminds usTuesday May 8th, 2018
Ten days ago I heard Bill Browder speak at a packed fundraising event. Browder’s bestselling 2015 memoir, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice, is a riveting chronicle of Browder’s investment adventures — first spectacularly successful, then harrowing — in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.Browder spoke eloquently, notably...
Another cultural institution succumbs to Jordan Peterson hysteriaTuesday May 1st, 2018
This Friday marks the 175th consecutive weekly “Free Raif Badawi” vigil in Sherbrooke, Quebec, where the imprisoned Saudi blogger’s family found asylum and have lived as permanent residents for the past three years. Badawi is still serving a seven-year prison sentence for “insulting Islam through electronic channels.”On April 26, to celebrate its 70th anniversar...
Status of Women Canada: Paints a Misleading Portrait of Muslim WomenTuesday May 1st, 2018
At what point do you know that your country is, on the whole, “inclusive”? Would there have to be, say, zero hate incidents for three years before you could say you live in a tolerant country?
But that’s never going to happen except in some hardline utopian’s dreams.
So now we have to settle for what is an “acceptable” hate crime statistic – ...
Suggestions for the new Ontario sex-ed curriculum
Tuesday July 3rd, 2018
Progressives support Racist Policies targeting Asian-Americans to Protect the Big Lie at the Heart of Multiculturalism
Sunday July 1st, 2018
Sarcasm is the Jewish sword
Friday June 8th, 2018
