this thing where academics & Cdn journalists tweet idiotic things about assassinations…It boggles the mind. They’ve seen other ppl lose their careers & reputations over this sort of thing. But they do it anyway. It’s like some kind of self destructive tic they can’t suppress there’s got to be something else going on psychologically aside from the ideological component. Most of us think things that we don’t say, because we realize it’s inappropriate. But in this case, you have sophisticated people making the same obvious mistake over and over….

Your annual Canada Day reminder that Trudeau & his govt “celebrated” Canada Day 2021 by peddling the lie that the “remains” of 215 dead children had been dug out of a field in BC. He never admitted the falsehood, nor have most of the media that uncritically reported this nonsense
I realize that there is a polite, unstated social contract in Canadian political circles that says we should all just pretend the 2021 unmarked graves social panic never happened. We should all just forget about it. It’s rude to bring it up. Erase it from your mind. I refuse to do that

In light of the endless Canadian nationalist chest-thumping that dominated this election, it’s ironic that the main long-term effect may well be to tip Canada into something resembling a US-style two-party system. (Can’t say this is a bad thing given what an absolute joke the NDP & Green parties have become under Singh and May) I don’t really write about partisan politics (except for random barbs on social media) and have no deep thoughts to offer about the election results. If Kamala Harris had won the US election, and the Libs hadn’t been able to cynically reinvent themselves as red-and-white face-painted jingoists, Poilievre would now be PM. But politics is full of this kind of randomness. It’s part of the business….

I’m not sure there is any real equivalent to Canada‘s Liberal party in any other country. It more or less just transforms itself into whatever voters want. As recently as a few years ago, Trudeau‘s idealized successor was a genderfluid BLM supporter and environmentalist who agonized hourly about indigenous genocide. Then they were like, “oh no, that’s not what anybody wants at all, so let’s just elect a serial G7 banker white dude who flushes all that crap down the toilet.” And it’s working ! The insane thing is how short everyone’s memory in this country is. In 2021, all anyone could talk about was how Canada is a genocide state. In fact, we were a double genocide state! MMIWG and those unmarked graves no one seems to be able to find. You’d think that ending this supposedly ongoing genocide would be the first order of business for any new Prime Minister. Nope. No one cares. Yesterday’s news. Let’s get on with smashing US liquor bottles and trashing Wayne Gretzky.

so it turns out that @Nathanielle_Qc, Canada’s $140K/year “advisor to the Minister of Women” who claims male runners have no biological athletic advantages over female runners …. is a biologically male failed Liberal candidate who “wins” 5Km road races in the female category

https://twitter.com/nathanielle_qc/status/1887485470138847315

In this race, the stunning and brave advisor came in first, beating out a 12-year-old girl by 36 seconds

much of the leaked info I get is from federal bureaucrats, who spend half their time in DEI sessions, learning about how genocidal their employer is.
E.g. these docs concerning an especially disastrous Oct 10 "Indigenous Voices" session at @TransportCA’s Ont office...(thread...) on 10/10, deputy mins Arun Thangaraj @Transport_DM / Brigitte Diogo brought in a woman named Sandra Bender to do a canned talk on unmarked graves etc. To Bender’s shock, the audience pushed back, noting that those 215 “unmarked graves” don’t seem to exist. So things got wild...

I do a weekly shift at a Toronto food bank, where we serve almost 400 people per week, at least a third of whom are recently arrived Muslim immigrants (we’re near thorncliffe park). You know how many keffiyehs/palestinian-themed symbols I see every week? Zero. None. Nada. While many of these clients no doubt have geopolitical views very different from my own, they have the good sense & manners not to alienate those around them. (The food bank in question is a church, and many of the volunteers are Jewish. We would never deny anyone entry based on whether they were wearing a keffiyeh, needless to say.) This aggressive anti-Israeli (and sometimes antisemitic) radicalism u see in these “all out for [demonizing Israel|” hate jamborees should *not* be taken as an excuse to vilify the Canadian Muslim community as a whole. By my observation over the past two years at the food bank, the majority of Canadian muslims are focused on the same basic (Canadian) challenges we all face. The performative cadres u see in these videos are very much (though admittedly not exclusively) an extension of upper middle class campus protest culture, fueled by institutionally ensconced (non Muslim) hatebags such as Fred Hahn. This is something I’d ask my followers to remember before they give vent to Islamophobia in their comments. By the way, I got to know some of these residents of Thorncliffe Park pretty well when I took the city of Toronto taxi course for a blubbertusk cover story I did on the growth of Uber and the demise of taxis. The vast majority of the people in the class were Muslims, and I used to give some of them a lift back to their apartment complexes along Overlea blvd (near what was then my favourite Wendy’s). we talked about all sorts of things, but I really never heard them bring up the Middle East or anything like that. They are mostly just pissed off that it’s so hard to get their professional accreditations back home recognized in Canada.

Appreciate @Noahpinion sharing my @Quillette piece far & wide. But a few refinements in regard to this tweet.
1) even indigenous groups didn’t claim there was a “mass grave.” That was an invention of @ianrausten of the @nytimes (which, inexplicably, still hasn’t run a correction on his hideously botched 2021 articles) …. 2) the far more common claim (which caused the 2021 social panic in Canada) was that 215 *individual* “unmarked graves” had been found. This was also completely untrue. What was found were GPR anomalies, which, even 3 years later, have yielded zero graves. Some sites have been dug up & there was nothing there (to the enormous disappointment of the justly mortified Canadian media corps)…

A group called Mohawk Mothers has been seeking to delay/block McGill U’s “New Vic” project in Montreal—based on claims of secret burials & unmarked Indigenous graves on the site. Today, @mcgillu’s provost reported that no graves were found, including in areas identified by GPR... (no word yet on whether McGill's leadership team will be indicted on charges of "denialism")

cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…

I spoke to Richard a few times. He was publicly denounced by an equity consultant hired by TDSB to tell white ppl how racist they are. Richard questioned her absurd claims, & the woman used him as a case study in evil "whiteness"
This is what's become of TDSB under @TDSBDirector

https://twitter.com/SOSTDSB/status/1682132102106497024

There's a recording of this equity consultant hysterically attacking Richard for his supposed racistness. In the fullness of time, it should all be made public. This tragic episode gives us a window into the sadistic mindset of the fanatics who've taken over our school boards

What a pity that this ridiculous CBC hit job on @AbigailShrier can't get the massive ratio it deserves

cbc.ca/news/canada/no… Like clockwork

a lot of parents are now telling me that their teenagers' social media feeds, especially TikTok, have started to shift 180 degrees on genderwang. the once-revered (bio-male) trans "influencers" & athletes are becoming figures of ridicule. pendulum seems to be swinging back hard Teenagers aren't dumb, but they do move in herds. The genderwang stuff was fun when it felt vaguely transgressive and daring. Now that they hear their dinosaur teachers and parents mumbling pronoun checks (not to mention the Bud Light & Hershey's fiascos), it's time to move on

I've been struck by this too. Most Canadians are sensible. But then u find surreal college-town clusters of wealthy white paranoiacs convinced they all have long covid & that we inhabit a white supremacist genocide state (whose sins must be expiated by baby-jesus drag queens)...

https://twitter.com/BiffordDarren/status/1651967573896863744

Since these people don't leave campus or their homes to mix with commoners (shopping is done online, & they often work from home), they've been left to create a bizarrely cultish sub-society that exists, in electronic form, in a way that's completely detached from real life....

This person ("they/her," naturally) is the Associate Director of the Centre for Learning & Teaching at @DalhousieU .... This is their/her reaction to the lifting of mask mandates at the university

This story gets weirder...That @uOttawa prof (and "queer legal historian") who claimed today that RBC bank employees started randomly taunting him homophobically and then threatening his life (because yeah, that always happens at the bank).... He's a former RBC employee

https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1651675762599030805

He also worked for desjardins and... Surprise, surprise.... Claims to keep witnessing racism at desjardins !

The claim that staff at a Canadian bank told one of their customers they were going to "take him out" "with their own hands" seems extremely doubtful.

https://twitter.com/jonathandicarlo/status/1651366366027317248

Yes this all definitely happened

Insurrection alert !

https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1650900135386177537

Can't wait for the government to freeze the union members' bank accounts.... then when labor supporters raise money for the strikers, @TorontoStar will do a big splash on the doxxed donor list. Stay tuned. Big show coming up folks.

thestar.com/news/canada/20…

hey, speaking of pampered lifestyles, the Mexican resort I stayed at earlier this month was full of Canadians. That included a guy who became my tennis partner, who's a child psychiatrist here in Canada. Naturally, I had some questions for him about current trends among kids ... like everyone else, he worries about all the kids (girls mostly) showing up claiming they're trans. But interestingly, that wasn't his main concern... bcuz he says they usually age out of the gender stuff once they find something that interests them besides their own ennui ...

It's been almost two years since we were told that hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of unmarked graves have been discovered across the country. In that time, precisely zero graves have been identified. Now an @NDP MP wants to make it illegal for anyone to point this fact out.

https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1626997483241984003

The contention is that GPR-detected anomalies signal the remains of children murdered in cold blood, or hastily & secretively buried after expiring of neglect. It's an extraordinary claim that, in any other context, wd immediately be investigated. But in two years... nothing ....

"Two Spirit Studies"
Last year, an Ontario teachers union wrote up a document purporting to instruct its members what two spirit actually means. They admitted they had no idea, except to such extent you have to be indigenous & "anti colonial" to qualify...
quillette.com/blog/2022/10/0…

https://twitter.com/JohnDSailer/status/1622679543260581902

best thing about this job is that any claim about what "two spirit" means is unfalsifiable. Read this EFTO report: Two Spirit means gay, or not gay, trans, or not trans, or none, or all. You're not allowed to ask. Whoever gets this job can study their navel until they get tenure

February 23 will be a professional-development day for Ottawa-area @OCDSB teachers. Let's check in to see what kind of valuable pedagogical training they'll be getting from @ETFOeducators ... Then it's time to "Get REAL" !