As people line up to try to cancel the Great One, the hockey legend has Grapes in his corner.
It’s kind of fitting the man voted in a CBC poll as the 7th greatest Canadian has the back of the person from that same poll who was voted the 10th greatest Canuck.
I blame the Liberal Party and their media.
Late last month, Townhall reported how Karla Sofía Gascón, who is from Spain, became the first openly transgender actress” to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Gascón plays the lead in the musical “Emilia Pérez,” which is about a Mexican cartel boss who undergoes “gender-affirming surgery” to live as a woman.
The Netherlands’ Leiden University is one of the top-ranked in the world, so when one of its senior law professors takes the trouble to offer an international perspective to a science committee of the Canadian House of Commons, we should pay attention to his words.
Professor Yuan Yi Zhu’s advice to Canadian students who are not left wing is to keep their views to themselves until they secure funding: “[w]ithin Canadian academia there is a monoculture where, if you deviate even very slightly from what is fashionable and what is commonly accepted by your peers, not only will you be ostracized, but often you will not be able to have an academic career in the first place.”
When Canadian progressives talk about “inclusion,” you can be sure that Christians are about to be excluded.
When the Canadian Armed Forces issued a directive instructing chaplains that they must be “inclusive” at Remembrance Day ceremonies, for example, they meant that Christian prayers and traditional symbolism were to be excluded, especially because — as a 2022 report from the DND noted — Christianity is “a source of suffering and intergenerational trauma” for many Canadians, with this being “especially true for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirited members of Canadian society.”
The French media regulator has fined the conservative channel CNews €100,000 for, during a Catholic programme, saying that abortion is the world’s leading cause of death. The episode reveals the extent to which the debate on abortion is deadlocked in France.
In February 2024, presenter Aymeric Pourbaix, during the Catholic programme “En quête d’esprit,” broadcast every Sunday on the conservative channel CNews, showed an infographic on the causes of death, ranking abortion as the leading cause, with 73 million deaths each year worldwide. That translates to 52% of annual deaths, far ahead of cancer (10 million) and smoking (6.2 million).
Three in five Canadian university students say they fear expressing their honest views on contentious political issues due to potential backlash from peers and instructors, a campus free speech survey says.
Participants in a survey of 1,548 university and college students were asked if they felt comfortable discussing “controversial issues” in the classroom, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, transgender issues, and other politically charged subjects.
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.
