C2C Journal has just released its latest issue: The Last Front Page – The future of journalism and democracy in the post-print world.
Please download the Issue PDF here.
C2C Journal has just released its latest issue: The Last Front Page – The future of journalism and democracy in the post-print world.
Please download the Issue PDF here.

Canada has seen a troubling rise in anti-Semitism in the last two years. Hatred of Jews is now expressed openly, shamelessly, without restraint – and without consequence for those engaged in it. In part one of a two-part series, Lynne Cohen explains why Canada’s political and civic leaders seem unwilling to call out anti-Semitism or take any meaningful action to stop it. Whether driven by bias, cowardice or cold political calculation, the country’s political class is not just failing Canada’s Jewish population. It is choosing to do so. If the brutal massacre of innocent Jews by Muslim terrorists at Bondi Beach in Australia teaches anything, it’s that allowing anti-Semitism to spread has murderous consequences. Canada should take heed.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policy may be chaotic and punitive, but he’s right about one thing: Canada’s agricultural supply management system has to go. Not because it’s unfair to America, though it is, but because it punishes Canadians. The price-fixing scheme limits consumer choice, requires a huge bureaucracy and prevents farmers from producing more in the face of shortages, forcing them instead to dump excess production. Worst of all, writes Gwyn Morgan, it drives up prices for milk, cheese, chicken, eggs and other essential foods — all for the benefit of a few thousand farmers, largely in Quebec. For Canada’s trade negotiators, argues Morgan, ending this mad racket should be job one.

What do children owe their parents? Love, honour and respect seem like a good start. But what of parents who were once political figures? Does the younger generation owe a duty of care to the beliefs of their forebears? In a fascinating study on the nexus of familial responsibility and present-day policy choices, Peter Best examines two recent cases of inter-generational conflict over Indigenous relations in Canada. One concerns Prime Minister Mark Carney and his father Robert. The other is a recent book on the work of noted aboriginal thinker William Wuttunee edited by his academic daughter. In each case, Best finds, the current generation has let down its ancestors – and left all of Canada worse off.

Celebrating the fact of one’s country’s existence, its survival through the adversities of history and its positive or uplifting attributes is a fact of life the world over, even in tyrannies and oligarchies. Nearly everyone can find something to love about the place they call home. Yet this is apparently not the case for many inhabitants of present-day Canada, who claim that what was once the self-described “greatest country in the world” has suddenly become a systemically racist hell-hole. Despite such pressure from the woke mob and their elite enablers, however, the editors of C2C Journal find much that is not merely defensible about Canada, but praiseworthy and downright glorious.

Aboriginal grievance and entitlement stories made a lot of news in Canada in June. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau renamed National Aboriginal Day as National Indigenous Peoples Day. He also renamed his office to erase its historic link to Hector Langevin, an architect of the residential schools system. And he gave the old American embassy in Ottawa to native groups. Still aboriginal activists weren’t satisfied. So they badgered an apology out of Governor General David Johnston for calling First Nations peoples immigrants. Which left the author of this story wondering, where on or off earth do these insatiably aggrieved activists come from?

In 1972 Lou Reed offended conservatives with his hit Walk on the Wild Side, an admiring ode to his transgendered friend Holly, who left Miami as a he and became a she on the way to New York. In 2017 the song has offended progressives as a transphobic example of cultural appropriation. In this article by C2C Staff, the Journal explains what a long, strange trip it’s been from conservative censorship to progressive censorship.


