Culture & Society Articles
CBC heavily promotes drag performer ‘Gay Jesus’
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: Here & Queer, a CBC talk series celebrating LGBTQ artists, interviewed a “nonbinary drag king” on April [...]
Mostly observations about ‘pride season’
From the editor’s desk: This “From the Editor’s Desk” could focus exclusively on pride month events – or “pride season” [...]
CLC lauds fourth annual National ‘Pride’ Flag Walk-Out Day
Kesiah Beere: On June 1, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) held the fourth annual National “Pride” Flag Walk-Out Day. Each year, [...]
Backdoor digital ID
John Carpay: Social media is actually quite anti-social. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp drive many teens and adults into isolation [...]
Ottawa seeks to regulate internet under guise of social media ban
Kesiah Beere and Paul Tuns: On June 10, 2026, Liberal MP Marc Miller introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, [...]
Life at the Bottom
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass: 25th Anniversary Edition Theodore Dalrymple (Bloomsbury, $26.50, 225 pages) British [...]
Rage against the machine
Paul Tuns, Review: Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis, $42, 348 pages) Paul Kingsnorth, a [...]
It’s a mad, mad, mad world
From the editor’s desk: By the way, between his three marriages and various mistresses, Boris Johnson has at least ten, [...]
Privacy a necessity for free people
John Carpay: Having governments spy on citizens is a great way to reduce crime! Consider how many more criminals would [...]
Pornocracy
Pornocracy: Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel (Polity, $36, 183 pages) In their introduction, Jo Bartosch, a journalist, and Robert Jessel, [...]
The war against dependence: women v. women’s bodies
Sarah Stilton, Review: The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto by Leah Libresco Sargeant (Notre Dame University Press, $37.95, 219 pages) Leah [...]
The future arrives with the Great Feminism
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements At the end of last year Helen Andrews (whose book Boomers [...]
Alberta town bans pride flag, painted pride crosswalks
Interim Staff: On March 24, Didsbury, Albera, a town of just over 5000 population north of Calgary, voted to ban [...]
Can’t fix past racism with new racism
John Carpay: Is racism always wrong? In Canada in 2026, asking this question is not only fair, but necessary. A [...]
Transgender facts
Rory Leishman: Over the past decade, physicians have subjected tens of thousands of vulnerable, transsexual teenagers to puberty blockers, cross-sex [...]