Peter MacKinnon: York University’s faculty hysterics expose desperate need for post-secondary reform
Observers should pay no heed to the non-confidence motion brought by York University’s faculty association on March 19 against their university president, provost and board chair, for it is only another reminder that Canadian university governance is sorely in need of reform.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening abolishing union rights at more than two dozen federal agencies and offices, in a major expansion of the administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government.
The White House cited national security concerns for terminating workers’ ability to bargain collectively, but the order applies at agencies with both direct and indirect links to national security. Those include the entirety of the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, State and Justice, and parts of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Interior, Energy and Commerce, among others.
Welcome to Xi Jinping’s Gulag Archipelago for Christians.
For decades, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China has fervently worked to control and restrict Christianity within its borders, with the ultimate aim of abolishing it altogether. Believers have bravely persisted in the face of this vicious persecution. Today, the danger and threat they face is as dire as ever – and a new report from International Christian Concern warns, “There is no longer a safe place to be a Christian in China.”
Canadian researchers are being asked politically charged questions when trying to secure U.S. grants
Academic researchers are used to filing out forms when applying for grants, but Canadian scholars have expressed shock over a new questionnaire they are receiving when applying for funding issued in part or wholly by the U.S. government.
“Can you confirm that this is no DEI project or DEI elements of the project?” asks one question, with an accompanying link to U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to nix funding from government programs dealing with diversity, equity and inclusion.
“Can you confirm this is not a climate or “environmental justice” project or include such elements?” asks another.
Trump is owed thanks for this.
Canadian media have been trying for nearly 2 weeks to spin this as some sort of assault on academic integrity etc.
It’s not it’s just an effort to restore integrity and common sense to the toxic academy.
The ‘crisis’ among men and boys is another symptom of the elite’s neglect of the working class.
Male privilege. Toxic masculinity. Smash the patriarchy. A thousand dumb slogans have shaped our debate about the respective lot of men and women for the past decade or more. But this past week, the agreed-upon narrative – that essentially nothing has changed since Victoria was on the throne; that women remain as stifled and disenfranchised as ever, while men continue to lord it over them – has begun to collide with reality.
In an advertisement currently running on TV, a young white male kneels on his front lawn, trimming the grass one blade at a time with a nail clipper. Next door, a slightly older black male sits comfortably on his porch, scanning his automated payroll accounts with an air of confidence and superiority as he looks askance at his foolish neighbor.
In another ad, a large, middle-aged black woman dances and sings her way through the supermarket aisles, waited upon entirely by whites. At one point, she stands still, looking doubtfully at a middle-aged white male who has taken a break from mopping the floors. In the end, she breezes out of the store, her cart filled by white employees overjoyed to serve her.
You don’t need a read-between-the-lines dictionary to figure out where Prime Minister Mark Carney could well be heading.
On Thursday, Carney is talking about U.S. President Donald Trump and how the Americans are hitting the Canadian auto industry with tariffs.
Carney is talking about April 2 when Trump is scheduled to take other swings at Canada.
Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s HHS has slammed California for teaching children as young as 10 about sex toys and role playing.
In a letter shown exclusively to DailyMail.com, the Department of Health and Human Services warned the state’s health agency it was not showing ‘age appropriate’ or ‘medically accurate’ materials to students.
In a statement, the HHS said it would ‘not tolerate’ the use of federal funds for programs that fail to meet its requirements.
We all think we know what is causing the breakdown of the planet’s climate: burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide, change the chemistry of the air and trap more heat from the sun, leading to rising temperatures.
But Tao Leigh Goffe, an associate professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York, wants us to visualise a far more specific cause: the shunting of a ship’s prow on to the sandbank of a paradise island in 1492.
In Dark Laboratory, her groundbreaking new book, Goffe argues that it was the colonisation of the Americas by Christopher Columbus that set off the chain of events that has led us to where we stand today, on the precipice of global catastrophe.
A new controversy has erupted over CTV News recent choice for election “fact checker.”
Critics allege that Rachel Gilmore, who gained notoriety online, is more of a conspiracy theorist than a journalist.
Last summer, as I lay awake awaiting a forecasted storm, I left my windows open to feel the warm breeze.
As the first lightning strike lit up the night sky, I heard the boom of thunder. Then, like an echo, I heard screams from the homeless encampment on the river bank — the terror of those without shelter who were exposed to the storm and its potential dangers.
That terror hit me close to my heart, aching with the memory of how close my eight-year-old child and I had been to living on the streets ourselves.
An American businessman who lost $26 million in a cryptocurrency investment scam is asking British Columbia’s courts to help find his money — and the people who stole from him.
For four months, LW believed he was in an online romantic relationship with a Vancouver woman named Qian Xin who enticed him to invest millions of dollars in cryptocurrency-based trading platforms.
But a private investigator’s report said that Xin likely never existed, and the exchanges where LW invested his money turned out to be bunk. Canadian authorities say it’s an increasingly prevalent type of scam where fraudsters forge romantic or platonic relationships with their victims online, then push them to invest as much as they can in a phoney scheme.
So rich but so dumb.
Canadians have a right to know before election day how Mark Carney’s past work life could intersect with his role as prime minister, and not four months from now, when the ethics commissioner finishes his report.
There are several potential issues that could arise under a Mark Carney government. Most are connected to his time at Brookfield Asset Management. These include potential conflicts of interest with investments tied to the firm’s performance, his former business relationship with China, and his net-zero work, which calls into question his commitment to Canadian energy. These could be potential issues for any government leader, regardless of party.
Does everyone in Hollywood have a trans or non-binary child? pic.twitter.com/cNP0aSO7JR
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 24, 2025
The $270 million invested by Quebec in Northvolt’s parent company in Sweden is now worthless, confirmed the provincial government.
“We estimate that the value of this amount is lost,” said Christine Fréchette, Minister of the Economy, Innovation and Energy, on Wednesday.
The amount was part of a $2.9 billion investment by Quebec and Ottawa.
