The #MeToo movement has so far concentrated on sexual misconduct by men in politics and the entertainment industry. Minor or major celebrities, most of them. The incidence of male sexual misbehaviour within these demographic cohorts, ranging from criminal assault to unwelcome comments, is said to be “rampant”. And it is, as measured by media coverage and social media reaction. But there’s no actual data on that assertion. Data does exist, however, showing that Aboriginal women suffer rates of sexual abuse much higher than non-Native women. Mark Milke wonders why #MeToo has not yet spread to places where the victims may be even more numerous.

Why does Jordan Peterson drive progressives nuts? Because he refuses to use their made-up pronouns? That hardly seems reason to compare him to Hitler. Clearly it’s something else. According to Mark Milke, Peterson is a proxy for a much bigger fight. It pits the Marxist idea that reality is a malleable, perfectible construct against the classical liberal view that reality is knowledge born of experience. The former is absolutist and authoritarian, the latter open to learning and debate, and the vicious campaign to discredit and silence Peterson reveals just how illiberal our society has become.

Ontario and Alberta used to be the reliable twin engines of Canada’s economy. They created jobs for refugees from the sclerotic economies of Atlantic Canada and provided tax transfers to subsidize statist Quebec Inc. Long suffering victims of socialist governments in Manitoba and Saskatchewan looked to their neighbours east and west with a mixture of envy and resentment, while a lot of British Columbians dismissed them as hyperactive greed heads with no appreciation for work-life balance. Those days are over, writes Mark Milke, as Ontario and Alberta are now smothering their competitive advantages with unaffordable green energy policies.

Maybe it’s the current dearth of inspiring or even competent political leadership in the western world, but this summer our lonely and fragile democracies are turning their eyes to Winston Churchill and George Orwell, two men who arguably did more than anyone to rescue western civilization from tyranny in the 20th century. Churchill stars in the great movie Dunkirk and in a new biopic bearing his name. Orwell’s ideas are routinely invoked to explain the epidemic of fake news and “spin” that has infected, beyond even past practice, our highest political offices and lowest journalism. The pair are also the subject of a timely new book about the extraordinary parallels in their remarkable lives, reviewed for C2C Journal by Mark Milke.

Unhinged by the mayhem of the Trump White House, many in the American media are looking north for salvation. One example was the fawning, error-riddled Rolling Stone cover story lusting for Justin Trudeau to lead the U.S. Another was the Atlantic Monthly hiring Canadian writer Jonathan Kay to plead for higher taxes to rescue America from its economic and socio-political decline. Mark Milke agrees the U.S. is in trouble, but argues the Canadian cure is worse than the American disease.

You can tell it’s spring in Canada because in cities where the local NHL team has made the playoffs pick-up trucks are cruising the streets adorned with team flags attached to upside-down hockey sticks. With fan fever running high, it’s a good time for the NHL to abuse its customers by raising ticket prices, announcing it won’t participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics and, in the Calgary Flames’ case, threatening to move the team unless taxpayers pony up for a new arena. This is just another repugnant play for corporate welfare, writes Mark Milke, and the Flames deserve a major penalty for unbusinesslike conduct.

Remembrance Day is as good a time as any to contemplate the many men and a few women scattered throughout history who combined utopian demagoguery with ruthless violence to attain power. Mark Milke does just that in his review of Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice and Terror, a new book by Carleton University political scientist Waller Newell. It rejects materialist nostrums about the “root causes” of tyranny and terror, and instead locates their origins in revolutionary zeal and human bloodlust.

People who know sheep well say their reputation for conformity is ill-deserved. Apart from the obvious differences, like gender and notoriously non-conformist black sheep, there are all kinds of subtle but real physical and ancestral factors which herald the true diversity of sheep. True, they think as one about sex and wolves, but that’s just enlightened collectivist socialization, which marks them as intellectually superior to other barnyard creatures, like selfish pigs. Mark Milke’s latest piece for C2C Journal about faux academic diversity in Canada and the end of the “Calgary School” of intellectual dissidents has nothing and everything to do with sheep.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave an interview to the New York Times in December that deserved far more attention than it got. “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” Trudeau said, adding that Canada is the world’s first “post-national state”. Is that what Canadians will be celebrating when the country turns 150 next year? Mark Milke hopes not, for he contends that a country without a national identity is a country without a future. Trudeau seems not to have noticed, but he may have framed the next big debate between progressives and conservatives.

The Islamic State terrorist group has explicitly targeted Canada, urging its soldiers and sympathizers to kill Canadian infidels in our streets and our homes. As the number of Canadian citizens fighting with ISIS in Syria and Iraq continues to rise, the Harper government has begun invalidating their passports. This summer the government passed a law allowing dual citizens found guilty of terrorism to be stripped of their Canadian citizenship. These initiatives have raised larger questions about citizenship and immigration policy in the era of globalized terrorism, and are testing the core Canadian belief in diversity as a source of unity. Mark Milke explains…