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@BettsCaro 'I used to be friends with her.'

my weekly @Quillette column explains Canada’s political melodramas, social panics, identity cults & tragicomic genderwangery to intl readers. This week: how activists turned the tragedy of murdered indigenous women into a farce called “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA” quillette.com/2026/04/14/the…

Teacher goes to court over Quebec policy that demands secrecy over pronoun changes, writes Michael Higgins nationalpost.com/opinion/michae…

It's just incoherent.

“The government is now deciding who gets to be a journalist” - me in @TheHubCanada thehub.ca/2026/03/10/the…

On International Women’s Day, the Justice Centre reminds Canadians that our federal government allows men who identify as women, including men with fully intact male genitalia, to transfer into women’s prisons. Our donors are funding the constitutional challenge to this federal policy, which subjects female inmates to sexual harassment, physical assault, and psychological trauma resulting from these transfers. Follow the latest development in this court action here: jccf.ca/court-affidavi…

if you’re wondering why a generation of Canadian academics has been encouraged to identify as “gender fluid” or “non-binary,” completely meaningless terms that are basically astrological signs for upper middle class neurotics, it’s because it’s the only way they can get a job

“The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas—even if they are sincerely held beliefs—is one of the fundamental freedoms of society.” Hear, hear! 👏

John Cleese says he's now avoiding B.C. because of crackdown on gender identity criticism vancouversun.com/opinion/john-c…

FACT: Not a single adolescent on the face of this planet is capable of consenting to being sterilised. Everything we know about adolescent development tells us that this life stage is defined by experimentation and change. It is a period of identity exploration, when young people try on different selves — when beliefs are held with passionate conviction one day, only to be discarded the next. And because we know that adolescents do not have fixed, stable identities, we should also know that permanent, irreversible medical interventions that imprint adolescent identities onto the body could never be appropriate or ethical. Paediatric gender medicine is a terrible medical crime. In my opinion, it's the worst medical scandal in history.

Well, this is completely insane hrreporter.com/focus-areas/di…

Yesterday, the BC Human Rights Tribunal once again ruled that ORDINARY laws protecting Canadians against discrimination and "hate" speech outweigh the CONSTITUTIONAL law protecting Canadians’ freedom of expression. Mr. Neufeld, a school board trustee, was ordered to pay the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association a sum of $750,000. He has 6 months to pay. His crime? According to the BC HRT, it was "denying the existence of trans people" (mostly on his time and not specifically in his role as trustee). The BC HRT ruled that if you say that gender identity is a belief system and not objectively verifiable, you are essentially denying the existence of trans people – and this is discriminatory erasure. This is an untenable precedent and creates a legally enforceable hierarchy of beliefs. Your deeply and sincerely held belief can be discriminatory – which in turn makes it unlawful (and extremely expensive). We’ve walked into a new Canada. Your constitutional right to free speech means very little.

So many potential hate speech scenarios are now possible. If a detransitioner compares his or her own "gender affirming" medical interventions to child abuse, is that hate speech? Is aking this question hate speech?

@_CryMiaRiver @HJoyceGender Yeah. This isn’t going to work out if we value living in a liberal democracy. They're trying to contruct a kind of secular equivalent of a theocracy. People will not be ordered to believe metaphysical ideas without serious social unrest. What a time. What a place B.C. has become

Did you see this part of the ruling? “A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.” Absolutely astonishing. But at least they're now being completely open and honest about what trans rights really means.

This is absolutely wild. I'm so glad there are no kangaroo "human rights courts" in the UK.

I was on @RealTimers, where Bill Maher gave me the chance to explain why the social media execs are worse than the Tobacco execs in the 1990s: They all lied by claiming that their products were not addictive. But the tobacco execs never had to watch children suffer. youtube.com/watch?v=d1xCD9… At the trial last week in Los Angeles, Adam Mosseri claimed that Instagram is not addictive. He said a kid compulsively watching 16 hours of Reels a day is no different than when he watches too much Netflix and stays up a bit too late. But he knows that gambling is a DSM addiction, he knows that slot machines are addictive, and he knows that his product was designed using behaviorist principles that were perfected on slot machines and that are not relevant to watching movies. Also, he and his researchers have used the word "addiction" in many internal memos and studies. My team has organized the evidence on 31 studies carried out by Meta, and culled from internal documents that have come out in the many lawsuits against Meta. See for yourself: metasinternalresearch.org See study 3.1, which found that “the majority of clinicians believe that social media can be addictive,” with fully 85% of U.S. clinicians endorsing this proposition. Or see this quote from a Meta senior data scientist with a PhD in neuroscience who once taught a university course on addiction: “It seems clear from what’s presented here that some of our users are addicted to our products. And I worry that driving sessions incentivizes us to make our product more addictive, without providing much more value. How to keep someone returning over and over to the same behavior each day? Intermittent rewards are most effective (think slot machines) reinforcing behaviors that become especially hard to extinguish—even when they provide little reward, or cease providing reward at all.” So, they know. To quote Sean Parker, discussing how social media apps were designed to give users "a little dopamine hit every once in a while" to hook them: "The inventors, creators — it's me, it's Mark, it's Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it's all of these people — understood this consciously. And we did it anyway." youtube.com/watch?v=d1xCD9…

The shooter was male. It's a dereliction of duty for police and media to say otherwise. My column: nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-…

@sarkonakj Great article. Thank you!

A human male cannot "transition to female" any more than he can transition to a squirrel. We need to stop playing these ideological word games and get back to reality.

@CBC and the @RCMP have (a day late) confirmed that indeed the horrific murder in #TumblerRidge was not perpetrated by a woman. We need accurate crime reporting to understand how male violence works, and accurate description to recognize attackers cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

On Fox Varian, by @HadleyFreeman in @thetimes 'This is big because while nothing else - common sense, science, politicians, even public opinion - could stop the gender gravy train among American liberal institutions, money is a language all Americans understand. And money is why gender ideology spread like Japanese knotweed across the US. It was boom time for grifters and monsters' Great column. Journalists who are shocked at the Fox Varian outcome - take a look back at the number of times you ignored the story. Those who paid attention saw it coming with a telescope. thetimes.com/comment/column…