Jean-François Lisée Le Devoir, December 15, 2021 I found it long. Two years, before the opponents of the Loi sur laïcité de l’État (Bill 21) put a name, a face and a story to their arguments. It was written: as soon as a case was identified that could be made into a cause célèbre, the […]
“Salah and Mohamed had their chance at school like any other Belgian child. Nowhere in these testimonies is there any mention of racism or discrimination.” Christian Rioux, LeDevoir.com November 5th, 2021 After the scenes of horror, the banality of evil. For the past month, the trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks that continues in […]
Trans-bullies are harming the Trans community with their intolerance of even mentioning that not everyone is ever going to be on board with “Trans-Women are Women”. Contrary to Trans-Bully dogma, there IS a debate on this fanatical position, Trans-Bullies just don’t want to participate in it and prefer to try to bully everyone into acquiescence. […]
(Open letter to the media by two Ministers of Education) As several media outlets around the world have recently reported, children’s books, including Tintin and Lucky Luke, were burned and then buried in Ontario, Canada, in a “cleansing by fire ceremony” because they portrayed a negative and erroneous image of indigenous peoples”. For too long […]
Within English speaking North America, and until the middle of the Twentieth Century, French Canadiens were considered “not quite white” and exploited accordingly. Jason Newton, an American researcher and forest historian, describes the use of pseudo-scientific racism to justify prejudices against migrant workers. By Sarah Champagne, Le Devoir October 20th, 2021 Original French text here : […]
In the 22 September, 2021 episode of the Honestly podcast from Bari Weiss, she interviews Dr. Vinay Prasad where they explore the causes and potential remedies for the politicization of the public health measures intended to reduce the impact and shorten the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic. From the intro to the podcast: So much […]
This is an extremely well argued and written trilogy of articles on a very controversial topic. Is it a mark of bigotry to suggest that there are any differences between Women born as girls and trans-women which should be of concern in writing laws and social policies? Should trans-women be accepted as women based only […]
An important independent Scientific and Technical Commission on the Recognition of Academic Freedom in the University Environment is currently underway (Quebec Ministry of Education). Its report is expected this fall. Freedom of expression is a founding value of a society that wants to come as close as possible to the ideal of a liberal democracy. […]
In this excellent episode of The Godless Spellchecker podcast, Stephen Knight interviews an anti-woke feminist on her new book explaining what is going on with and what is particularly pernicious about the self-contradictory woke dogma around gender identity vs racial identity and why it matters for justice and for the rights of persons who were […]
Maud Maron could be the poster-example of a passionate progressive legal aid lawyer working to keep poor and mainly oppressed minority people out of jail. Nevertheless, because of her disagreement with Wokoharam’s demands for harmful changes to the curricula at her children’s schools and her disagreement with her employer hiring a trainer in woke dogma […]