The Canadian Museum of History promises an excruciatingly woke experience, including the website accosting you with bright red “traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg. This land has held, and continues to hold, great historical, spiritual and sacred significance.” Instead, as with MAID generally, Canadian history is anaesthetized and sedated before being dispatched.
A brief walk from the relatively new Pioneer Village subway station in northern Toronto lies the Village at Black Creek, a living history museum showcasing life in Victorian Ontario. The two landmarks used to share the same name, until the museum announced last year that it was dropping the word “pioneer,” because it was believed to be a “barrier to efforts related to reconciliation and engagement.”
BRITAIN is not ready to defend itself from attack, says the Commons Defence Committee. Their report details the lack of missile defence, a Royal Navy depleted of ships and available submarines, an Army shrunk to its smallest since the Napoleonic Wars with only slightly more than 70,000 fully trained soldiers, not enough even to protect some of the UK’s most sensitive military bases.
The question that needs answering is why? Why has the armed forces ability to defend our country crumbled? Why are more personnel leaving than joining, and why do those left behind over-represent the lowest-capacity personnel?
Museums are Canada’s greatest stewards of public history. But in the past decade, increasingly overbearing cultural policies have rewritten their mandates. Once dedicated to simply telling the truth, they now have an agenda to push.
It’s subtle, but a lot of museums are open about it nevertheless. The federal Canadian Museum of History’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan states that it will “allocate resources strategically to bridge gaps” to “ensure better representation of equity-deserving groups.” Calgary’s Glenbow Museum announced its new land acknowledgement in September: “Blackfoot land, your territory.”
Alberta lawyer Roger Song moved to Canada 25 years ago from China to distance himself from a regime he says he could no longer live under.
Having witnessed the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre–when government forces opened fire on unarmed students demanding democratic reform–he says he saw Canada as a place of freedom where he and his family could start over. He was a law professor at Peking University at the time, and says he witnessed how the regime used its authority to suppress students’ “legitimate demands” for democracy.
Have you noticed how nowadays, whenever you visit a museum, you get hit by a clunking giant ideological hammer? Once upon a time, we went to museums to feed our curiosity and sense of wonder. Today, the people in charge of them seem to believe their job is to make us feel as guilt-ridden and tormented as possible.
With a spring in his step, senior lecturer Jeroen Ensink left his home in Holloway, London, to send cards to his friends and family, announcing the arrival of his baby daughter. Seconds later his life was over. A young black male (the relevance of which will soon be clear) suddenly pounced on him, and in a state of frenzy savagely stabbed his random victim. Femi Nandap, a psychiatric patient, was arrested and sent to a high-security institution.
Tuesday’s budget wasn’t like those of the high Trudeau years, encrusted with identity politics at every turn. But the spirit of the old regime lives on under Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has opted for a deficit of $78.3 billion along with the continuation of social justice programs and diversity mandates.
This year, one-time “investments” are numerous. The federal anti-racism secretariat — the entity that spurred a government-wide clampdown on forced diversity and hiring quotas in Ottawa in 2021, in response to the Black Lives Matter movement — is getting $2 million in 2025-26, and nothing else after that. The Canadian Heritage program for DEI in sport is getting $8 million in 2025-26, and, again, nothing afterwards.
Woke is fading here, but alive and well in Canada. The latest example comes from an apology, yes, another apology for whatever someone dead and buried did too many years ago.
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Disney has pulled out of its Doctor Who partnership with the BBC after just two series following what critics called the show’s “woke” rebrand.
The US streaming giant has confirmed it will not be involved in the next series of the sci-fi favourite following reports of lacklustre viewing figures.
The break-up means Doctor Who will not return to TV screens until Christmas 2026, with a special episode written by original showrunner Russell T Davies.
Canada’s practice of Indigenous land acknowledgements, viewed by many as a pivotal component of reconciliation, is not without its critics, including some Indigenous leaders and scholars who see them as a performative token gesture.
Andrew Schulz: "I think it's funny when governments try to enforce care… like anytime I'm performing in Canada if it's on an indigenous area they make me do like…"
Joe Rogan: "Land acknowledgement?"
Andrew: "I said that kinda seems like bragging."pic.twitter.com/CC5VFR57cc
— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) October 22, 2025
The centerpiece of a new exhibit in Los Angeles is a mangled junkyard of a statue, with horse and human limbs glommed together like some kind of zombie Ichabod Crane. Now dismembered beyond recognition, the piece was once a statue of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
Is there a cure for the civilization-ending woke mind virus?
I was all set to write a column weighing in on the excellent Helen Andrews piece at Compact about the feminization of our institutions and the damage that’s done — though what I would say is that Alla Margolina did an excellent job expounding on that subject in a post we picked up at RVIVR.
And then something else came up, which really deserves a bit of treatment.
The Metropolitan Police has said it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents to end the practice of officers having to police “toxic culture war debates”.
Scotland Yard today announced that the comedian Graham Linehan would face no further action after he was arrested last month over three tweets.
OH, the BBC. The front cover of Radio Times for the week beginning yesterday draws our attention to a season of FEMALE-LED shows. Of course it does. The viewing public wants nothing more than another tranche of hard-boiled, resourceful, compassionate girl-bosses leaving their male colleagues trailing helplessly in their wake. After all, who could possibly object to a female boss?
