“Peak Woke”

Seventeen Pride organizations in B.C. are calling on a member of the legislature to resign, citing a bill she introduced to repeal the province’s Human Rights Code as the latest example in a troubling pattern.

MLA Tara Armstrong rose in the legislature last month to introduce the Human Rights Code Repeal Act. The code protects people from discrimination based on characteristics including sex, race, disability, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, political belief, and religion.

A quick test for whether our institutions have lost the plot: if a clumsy booking form becomes a human-rights case, something has gone wrong upstream.

That is what recently happened in Quebec. A Montreal hair salon’s online booking process required clients to select either “man” or “woman” to book an appointment. A customer, Alexe Frédéric Migneault, who identifies as non-binary, objected. The dispute ended up before Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal, which ordered the salon to pay $500.00 dollars.

A human rights tribunal has ordered a salon just outside of Montreal to pay a non-binary customer $500 because its list of services lacked a gender-neutral option. The tribunal’s ruling: discrimination based on gender identity. If the salon doesn’t pay, it risks being sued.

Apparently, everything is discrimination now.

Serial complainer.

OFFS. 🙄@fancypants_s https://t.co/PbxdNnP0Tl

— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) February 19, 2026

h/t Auntie Polly

Job candidates required to describe how they would advance “decolonization.” A video that suggests starting meetings by identifying oneself as a “settler” on unceded native lands. A political scientist who says he was instructed to teach game theory “from an Indigenous perspective.”

Each, a practice at the University of British Columbia, is now evidence in a lawsuit brought against the school by a group of professors who claim such social-justice efforts violate a provincial law requiring universities to stay out of politics.

The suit, filed last spring and currently under review by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, has set off a major legal and cultural battle at one of Canada’s top universities, in which each side accuses the other of trying to push an activist political agenda in the name of free speech.

Hypocritical, purely performative land apologies from leftists have become a boring trope from coast to coast.

I will happily admit that I know almost nothing about the current pop music scene. My former range stretched from Ritchie Valens to Tyrone Davis to Ronnie Spector to Bob Dylan, and the Kinks (See, e.g., this.) When California singer/sensation Billie Eilish made a splash at the Grammys two weeks ago—“No one is illegal on stolen land”—I could only wonder, “Who?”

Billie Eilish got me deported from the US

I spent 30 hours in custody at LAX trying to explain to the agents that my shitposts about moving into her mansion on stolen land were just a joke

Her lawyers seem to have actually compiled a dossier on me because the agents were asking… pic.twitter.com/y38z3EEBRH

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) February 15, 2026

WHEN the University of Washington began requiring academics to issue ‘land acknowledgements’ in a shamelessly politicised attempt to suggest indigenous ownership of the land on which the campus stands, one professor responded by tucking a witheringly satirical version into his course syllabus. You may not have heard of Stuart Reges, but his small act of intellectual resistance led ultimately to a significant First Amendment ruling that strengthens protections for all public-university academics who refuse to turn themselves into ciphers for progressive pieties.

It has been a longstanding gripe of the Welsh that they exist on the political as well as geographic fringe of the UK. A debate on BBC Radio Wales at the start of the year seemed to offer proof of this complaint: here were the senior figures from the major Welsh political parties (except Reform UK), having it out in the first formal, official debate before May’s Senedd election – theoretically one of the most significant domestic political events of the year. And not a soul in Westminster appeared to notice.