OTTAWA – As conservative premiers change the rules around pronoun use in schools, members of the federal Conservative grassroots want Pierre Poilievre to wade further into the debate around gender.
A submission advancing to a policy convention next month proposes discussion of a Conservative government prohibiting “life altering medicinal or surgical interventions” for those 18 and younger who are looking to transition.
The pitch is similar to ones found across the United States, including in Florida where Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill in May banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
A university branch of a right-wing Dutch student organisation has returned to its daily activities after being attacked by left-wing militants earlier this week. Members of the Groot-Nederlandse Studentenvereniging (GNSV), a Dutch fraternity for students with “national feeling” were forced to defend themselves after being set upon by a large gang of ‘antifascists’ at an introduction week at Radboud University in the city of Nijmegen in southern 
“Not being able to govern affairs, I govern myself.” That was the view taken by the 16th-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne, who lived at a time when France was wracked by civil war. He was unable to influence what was going on in politics, he reasoned, but he could cultivate his own character and 
