Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Do political elites have the ballot-box question of 2019 wrong? By all accounts, our political and media elites would have us believe that the ballot-box question for this fall’s federal election will be a toss-up between “climate change” (the Liberals) and the need to punish leaders who have not performed “as advertised” (the Conservatives). Do you really believe that these issues have the capability of driving your vote on

Editor's Note: As Giulio Meotti asks in this article, where is the pushback against the censorious term “Islamophobia” and the ever-present threat of violence by offended Muslims? We have come a long way since Ayatollah Khomeini’s death fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses, but not in the right direction. The examples of self-censorship by authorities and artists are becoming too numerous to all be included in a single article, but Meotti has compiled

Remarque : La version française suit un peu plus bas Is "free speech" politically inexpedient? Last week’s “update” noted that Canada had become a slave to several “pseudo-realities”. One of these was the mistaken belief that “offensive” speech needed to be “quelled” to better accommodate diversity and keep from bruising the thin-skinned sensibilities of “identifiable groups”. The example given came in the form of the expungement of MP Cooper’s true, but “hurtful”, rebuke of

Editor's Note: In her article "Hiding behind 'Islamophobia'," Eileen Toplansky describes how the term ("a neoligism coined by the Muslim Brotherhood") is used to shield Islam from scrutiny and valid criticism. Because the term has no precise definition and means "whatever Muslims say it is," it is a backdoor way of establishing Islamic blasphemy law. In the words of Soeren Kern, "no one would be sure which forms of words could land them in court. It is precisely such uncerta

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas The "pseudo-realities" take charge in Canada Recent observations in these same “update” pages have noted the rise of a host of “pseudo-realities” that have come to displace “traditional truths long understood to be ‘self-evident’”. They were seen to be dangerous distractions as they sapped the will of representative authorities to protect the right of the individual to express contrary views that offended the sensibilities o

Editor's Note: As this article by Soeren Kern makes very clear, it’s not just in Canada that the “Islamophobia” narrative is being relentlessly promoted in order to silence criticism of Islam. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims is not accepting “No” for an answer with regard to their proposal for an official definition of Islamophobia that defines it in racial, rather than religious, terms. Defined in religious terms, Islamophobia would offer the reli

Remarque! La version française suit Note! Does curtailment of the abortion debate abrogate your free speech rights? If you think so, consider this government “e-petition” The contempt of the elites The last few “updates” have analysed the ways in which both state and non-state actors have used their respective powers to control just what you can see and hear in the public square. These entities operate to progress an agenda that is post-nationalist, post-industrialist and po