Culture & Society Articles
Age of Anxiety: The online rewiring of youth
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements There was a point, nearly a quarter century ago, when the [...]
Unhappy days: defending the movies of the ’50s
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Two years ago at a Munk Debate about public trust in [...]
Ontario requires participants to provide their pronouns
Interim Staff: On April 11, Sharon Nicklas, Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, issued a directive requiring all [...]
And then there was this, April 2024
By J.M. Glover: World Down Syndrome Day: One mother’s story Ten years ago, Natalie Wood, a British pregnant mom, was [...]
Canadian intelligence agency concerned about parental rights movement
Paul Tuns: A branch of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) says that “the anti-gender movement” could “inspire and encourage” [...]
Calling persons with vaginas’ is Supreme Court’s latest foray into judicial activism
Joanna Alphonso: Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin, writing for the unanimous R v Kruk decision rendered on March 8, 2024, [...]
Transgender medicine exposed a medical malpractice
Paul Tuns: Leaked files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) show that medical professionals routinely practice medical [...]
Imperium of lies
Deuteronomy, the Biblical patriarch distills his injunctions about the moral life into a single binary choice: “I call heaven and [...]
STI rates explode in Canada
Joanna Alphonso: “Diseases of the past” re-emerged vigorously over the past decade, leaving doctors astounded. Cases of sexually transmitted infections [...]
The fascism behind the Online Harms bill
John Carpay: In his masterful work The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert Paxton surveys fascist movements and parties in Europe in [...]
Online Harms Act threatens free speech in Canada
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 26, federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General Arif Virani introduced Bill C-63, the Online Harms [...]
Bad Therapy
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up Abigail Shrier (Sentinel, $39.99, 297 pages) Abigail Shrier was the subject of [...]
It’s okay to not watch the Super Bowl or Oscars
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Having worked as a movie critic on and off for over [...]
Peterson’s ordeal imperils us all
Rory Leishman: Toronto’s world-famous psychologist, Jordan Peterson, has warned Canadians: “Your much-vaunted Charter of Rights isn’t worth the paper it’s [...]
The new morality
The exchange always sounds quite reasonable. In so many different spheres of modern life, we are called upon to make [...]