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Jonathan Kay

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@quillette editor/writer/podcaster. Author. Advisor @fairforall_org & @FSU_Canada. Ex-lawyer -engineer -coder. Disc golf, 3D-printing, boardgames, baseball etc.

Toronto Katılım Eylül 2008
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Jonathan Kay@jonkay·
@geonuine @Quillette @BarbaraRKay Once we started up our newsletters, people didn’t have to just randomly google us to get our content. It’s delivered right to their inbox. Speaking of which, please let me know if you’d like to renew your subscription!
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Jonathan Kay@jonkay·
that CBC-funded “prank” didn’t just target pundits. In @Quillette, I report on their efforts to mock a humble 82-yr-old Brockville granddad who enjoys 19th-c historical re-enanctments. Producers repeatedly lied to him for months, then exploited his trust quillette.com/2026/05/15/a-d…
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WDI Québec@WDI_Quebec·
If someone had told me, 15 years ago, that the taxes I pay to the federal government would one day be used to try to prevent women’s groups from advocating for the rights of incarcerated women NOT to be held in the same facilities as murderers, rapists, and femicides, I would have thought they were out of their minds. But the canadian government tried it. This shameful canadian government tried to silence a group of women to protect their sisters incarcerated with convicted men while this group is their only voice. Please donate🙏 You ARE their voices. jccf.ca/federal-court-…
Linda Blade@coachblade

Fantastic news!! All systems are GO! The @cawsbar women of Canada are deemed to have official standing to represent imprisoned females re the Charter Challenge on allowing males in women’s jails and prisons. There is NO EXCUSE to put any male convict (irrespective of how he identifies) into a locked cell with a woman! Let’s see Corrections Canada try to justify this misogynistic practice in court. Let’s see Canadian MSM outlets - especially the @CBC - give women fair coverage on this matter. #KPSS #cdnpoli

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Linda Blade
Linda Blade@coachblade·
Fantastic news!! All systems are GO! The @cawsbar women of Canada are deemed to have official standing to represent imprisoned females re the Charter Challenge on allowing males in women’s jails and prisons. There is NO EXCUSE to put any male convict (irrespective of how he identifies) into a locked cell with a woman! Let’s see Corrections Canada try to justify this misogynistic practice in court. Let’s see Canadian MSM outlets - especially the @CBC - give women fair coverage on this matter. #KPSS #cdnpoli
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms@JCCFCanada

The Justice Centre announces that the Federal Court has dismissed the Federal Government’s motion to strike a constitutional challenge brought by Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CAWSBAR) and has also granted CAWSBAR public interest standing to proceed with the case on behalf of federally incarcerated women. The constitutional challenge concerns Correctional Service Canada’s Commissioner’s Directive 100: Gender Diverse Offenders, which permits the transfer of trans-identifying male inmates into women’s federal prisons. Lawyers funded by the Justice Centre filed the claim on behalf of CAWSBAR in April 2025. Read the full story here: jccf.ca/federal-court-…

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Quillette@Quillette·
.@RoyKAltman: “There is no home empire for Israel.” If settler colonialism requires a metropole extracting wealth, labour, or resources from a colony… what exactly is Israel the colony of?
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Cosmin Dzsurdzsa@cosminDZS·
This is so crazy from emails obtained by @ClayDeMaine: The fake producers behind "Counting Coup" tried to trap @AaronGunn by lying that CBC was "under pressure" to provide a "balanced view" on Sir John A. Macdonald and they wanted to reclaim his legacy. junonews.com/p/cbc-linked-s…
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Jonathan Kay@jonkay·
I don’t know anyone who says that Canadians shouldn’t be free to try to prank journalists. What I see are people who don’t think the federal heritage department and CBC should be bankrolling it
The Breakdown@TheBreakdownAB

It’s absolutely wild watching the free speech absolutists lose their minds over a sketch comedy show that committed the unforgivable sin of… Letting someone speak their own views with their full chests. Allegedly. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Jonathan Kay@jonkay·
Pranks can be fun (even if this one was a humiliating failure). what ppl are angry at is that this was done with govt cash, both from CBC & Cdn heritage dept. I.e. it wasn’t a subversive mischievous prank. It was a govt-approved propaganda gambit to attack ideological heretics
Chris Berthelot 🇨🇦@DebatingChris

The pearl-clutching over a prank show being publicly funded continues. This is a prank show where Indigenous activists turn the tables on people who have worked to whitewash Canada's anti-Indigenous history. No wonder Conservatives are freaking out. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

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Jonathan Kay@jonkay·
I love Alejandro Kirk to death but I think Valenzuela is the new @BlueJays starting catcher ….even when kirk comes back. He’s throwing out 37% of base stealers. League average, last time I checked, wasn’t much above 20%
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Jonathan Kay@jonkay·
Holy crap: CBC & Cdn Heritage both bankrolled that amateurish attempt to humiliate ppl who pointed out those 215 “unmarked graves” were never found. The bizarre thing is that on 4/17/2025, CBC *itself* admitted no graves were found. Did they also target CBC’s own public editor ?
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Clayton DeMaine@ClayDeMaine

Following outrage over a media set up, academic Frances Widdowson exposed on X, the CBC has confirmed that the public broadcaster was behind the media sting on notable political commentators. The project also received grants from Canadian Heritage. junonews.com/p/exclusive-cb…

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Chris Berthelot 🇨🇦@DebatingChris·
@AdamZivo Oh my fuck, please stop with this whining. It's incredible. What happened with Lindsay Shepherd was done by Sacha Baron Cohen 20 years ago. This isn't weaponization, it's Conservatives needing safe spaces and demanding their own version of censorship. Stop crying.
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Colin Wright
Colin Wright@SwipeWright·
A recent “systematic review” claiming transgender women show no meaningful strength differences from women after hormones went viral in progressive circles, but it should never have been published. It included studies that didn’t even meet its own criteria, and excluded relevant studies that did but contradicted its preferred conclusion. It made sweeping claims based on limited (and flawed) data, and one outlier study drove the headline result. This did not pass even basic expectations for scientific rigor, and yet it passed peer review in a top journal. Exercise scientist @JamesLNuzzo does the rigorous, line-by-line review this paper should have received before publication, breaking down exactly where it went wrong and why the conclusions don’t hold up. Read the full article below. 🔗realityslaststand.com/p/how-a-flawed…
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Jonathan Kay@jonkay·
@cselley @macleans If you check their feed, they have like four articles this month so I guess everything’s on heavy rotation
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Aaron Pete
Aaron Pete@Aaronpete_·
What the hell is going on? I work so hard, every week, to create a show that addresses the hardest issues facing our country. I invite on guests from all backgrounds and political views, and I get insulted from all sides while doing this. And no doubt, I fall short of my own aims at times. Then you have this clown show trying to make light of this and mock Frances? When are left-leaning people going to get it. You’re not morally superior. You’re not more advanced than the rest of us. You’re not more well informed. You’ve just picked the same team as the government of the day. I find this incredibly disrespectful to those of us trying to engage thoughtfully, carefully, and mindfully. No doubt this whole thing cost a lot of taxpayer dollars to play gotcha journalism with Frances Widdowson. You can see in that guys eyes that he underestimated his guest and this all went terribly for him. Good. We need more civil discourse and less nonsense.
Frances Widdowson@FrancesWiddows1

My interrogation of "Mr. Smarmy" (Igor Vamos) - a set-up by a made up company called "Forge Media", which pretended that I would be doing an interview for a "docuseries". This outfit is evidently connected in some way to @CBC.

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