Should Omar Khadr—or his mother—be tried for treason? In a past issue, C2C Journal commissioned several authors to look at treason in Canada and how the concept declined. See https://c2cjournal.ca/past-issues/ and scroll down to Volume 4 Issue 1 – Whatever Happened to Treason?
That a liar and fraud such as the late Jason Arday has become a martyr to “progressive” academics is evidence enough of how thoroughly universities have been captured by wokism. But all is not lost. Jonathan Barazzutti recently travelled to England for the annual conference of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science and spoke to those fighting back. Their weapons? Courses and workshops encouraging open inquiry, a push for policies enshrining political neutrality in institutions of higher learning and the creation of brand-new centres or entire universities dedicated to academic freedom. Much more needs to be done if universities are to rediscover the one form of diversity that really matters in higher education – diversity of thought.
In these “Elbows Up” times, when so many Canadians act so eager to tout Canada’s resilience and potential, veteran business leader Gwyn Morgan points to a troubling list of economic woes that tell a different story. Canada is indeed among the world leaders – in food costs, taxation, government debt, the regulatory burden on business and the crippling shortage of affordable housing. Meanwhile, the private sector is neglected and trade talks prioritize political goals. All that, and a government that lacks the ability or courage to take effective action. It is a veritable web of woe – one in which each strand worsens the other.
Catherine Kronas joined the school council at her son’s Hamilton, Ontario high school for the same reason most parents do – to have a say in their children’s education. Having read the relevant provincial legislation, Kronas thought she knew how the council was supposed to work. But rather than giving parents a voice in the school system, it turned out to be one more way for Canada’s education bureaucracy to impose its woke worldview on kids, staff and parents, including via compelled speech. In a soul-baring first-person account, Kronas reveals the many deceptive, manipulative and punitive ways in which school administrators tried to shut down her efforts to hold them to account.
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.
