Splendid Isolation

The Grassy Narrows First Nation was given $3.1M to investigate 114 anomalies found via Ground Penetrating Radar. Now the First Nation can't explain the work undertaken and account for where the $3.1M went. Now they are want more money. cbc.ca/news/canada/th…

In this post, @Ant1Duval and I assess the IOC's justifications for its new genetic sex testing policy and show that its claims of scientific consensus, consensus among female athletes, and compliance with human rights laws are completely unsubstantiated. verfassungsblog.de/ioc-genetic-se…

I reviewed Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age" for @nytimesbooks nytimes.com/2026/03/17/boo…

In this post, @Ant1Duval and I assess the IOC's justifications for its new genetic sex testing policy and show that its claims of scientific consensus, consensus among female athletes, and compliance with human rights laws are completely unsubstantiated. verfassungsblog.de/ioc-genetic-se…

BREAKING! Wilfrid Laurier University @laurier @LaurierPres is once again promoting the sexual grooming (psychosexual molestation) of Canadian children in plain sight! wlu.ca/academics/facu… #goldenhawks

@SwipeWright That’s a mere 16 letters. New Zealand laughs at Canada’s poor efforts. I give you the 2 dozen glorious letters of: LGBTQIATakatapuiMVPFAFF+. nz.jobrapido.com/jobpreview/750…

Canadian here, with four (count em) points of clarification on the “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” thing, which has now escaped its absurdist Canadian genderwang containment chamber, and gone viral internationally: 1) the speaker here is @LeahGazan, a fringe minor-party politician. She’s not in the government. She regularly calls for dumb things, such as criminalizing anyone who dares talk candidly about the 2021-era unmarked-graves social panic. CBC types treat her as a serious person because she’s indigenous and because she always talks in the tear-drenched idiom of white-settler colonial evilness. But she’s not. 2) MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is a mashup of two acronyms (each unique to Canada). Her decision to run them together is hilarious, which is why this has gone viral, but it’s not a common practice, even in rarefied leftist circles. 3) MMIWG refers to “Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls.” The problem of violence against indigenous women is a real and tragic issue. Unfortunately, a couple of years ago, a bunch of activists produced a ridiculous report on the subject that called it a “continuing” (!!!) “genocide,”and demanded that we all call it that. The whole movement collapsed when it was pointed out that something like 80% of the indigenous women who are killed are killed by indigenous men, which is very much off-message from the whole white colonial G-word thing. But the acronym still gets name-dropped when people are indicting Canada for all its infinitely genocidey genociding of everybody 4) “2SLGBTQetcetc…” Americans always ask me what “2S” stands for. It stands for “2 spirited,” a term that white academics popularized 50 years ago to give expression to their mystical reveries about sacred indigenous elf-people living in some precolonial eden-like genderwang Nirvana where everyone has three penises and five vaginas. No one is allowed to ask what the term even means, but our government made it official policy to use ridiculous words like this under Trudeau, so we’re stuck with it. Basically, if you’re an indigenous guy who likes to wear eyeliner, or an indigenous woman with blue hair and sensible shoes, you call yourself “2 spirited” on your govt grant applications. No one is even allowed to ask whether it’s a gender identity or a sexual orientation. It apparently exists in some exalted state that defies this kind of rigid colonial typology, or something like that. Back in 2022, I read a whole report about how to teach two spirited concepts to Canadian students, and it turned out that even the authors of the report admitted they had no idea what the term meant. I wrote about it for @Quillette: quillette.com/blog/2022/10/0…

An unusual case in Ontario is putting the "good character" standard to the test, raising broader questions about how Canadian law societies regulate entry to the profession. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/41qSLGB

CBA president decries media criticism of Ontario Superior Court of Justice judge. Comments suggested that the judge was biased in exercising his judicial functions. Read more from Canadian Bar Association president Bianca Kratt. hubs.la/Q049_bxj0