Toronto Mayoral Election: A Preview of the 2019 Canadian Election?
Faith Goldy is running for Mayor of Toronto and some people aren’t happy. Look down a little though and you’ll see that Goldy definitely has her supporters. These definitely include Joe Warmington’s Twitter followers:
@FaithGoldy says she's in. For mayor pic.twitter.com/8mtZzKHOqh
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) July 27, 2018
#FaithGoldy #TorontoMayor
Interesting Late Night Viewing
We Coulda Had Max
BREAKING: @AndrewScheer kicks @MaximeBernier out of his shadow cabinet. #cdnpoli
— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) June 12, 2018
As always, if disgusted conservatives choose to redivert your party contributions to this site in protest, we won’t stand in your way.
The Obsession of a Little Man named Zack B.
I’m always interested in what members of the media are saying about Jordan Peterson so naturally I read this recent article. At least I tried to but it’s so full of half truths and deliberate mis-characterizations that I gave up half way. Take this paragraph:
Experts on Canadian law said that Peterson was misreading the bill — that the legal standard for “hate speech” would require something far worse, like saying transgender people should be killed, to qualify for legal punishment. This is an early example of what would become a hallmark of Peterson’s approach as a public intellectual — taking inflammatory, somewhat misinformed stances on issues of public concern outside his area of expertise.
The author makes this statement and then COMPLETELY IGNORES the entire Lindsay Shepherd fiasco. Had many Canadians not risen up in her defence, is there any doubt that her academic career would have been ended before the end of 2017? True, what happened to Shepherd did not directly test Bill C-16 but it clearly was an indication of how ferocious the supporters of this bill are to use everything in their power to destroy those who “dare” disagree with them. That anyone supports a government that compels the use of certain speech is a clear sign of how messed up our society has become.
A quick review of the author’s Twitter feed (scroll back to March 27, 2018), shows that he is obsessed with Peterson in a creepy stalker-like way.
Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends
Kurt Schlichter is my newest hero.
Have you noticed that if you fail to do, think, and vote exactly the way that the liberals and their Fredocon minions demand, you’re a racist, sexist, homophobic, child molesting, greedy, NRA terrorist determined to murder kids? Yeah, you probably have. And you’ve probably also realized that if you do everything that the liberals and their Never Trump minions demand, you’re still a racist, sexist, homophobic, child molesting, greedy, NRA terrorist determined to murder kids.
When you understand that, you’re on your way to being conservative woke.
Because he thinks like me.
The Third U.S. Civil War?
A most fascinating and informative 20-minute podcast on the history of internal conflict in America can be heard here. Historical events are presented in a somewhat different way than you’ve likely heard before. For example,the Revolutionary War of Independence is described as what is really the first civil war in the land mass that eventually became America. Then came, what we call today, the American Civil War but at the time it wasn’t exactly thought of that way. Now, in the second decade of the 21st Century, are we witnesses to the early stages of what future historians will call the 3rd U.S. Civil War?
Highly recommended listening and your thoughts on the discussion are much appreciated!
Let Me Rewrite That Headline For You
Dalhousie University restricts search for new VP to ‘racially visible’ and Indigenous candidates -> Dalhousie University Commits Not to Hire Most Competent Candidate for New VP
Dalhousie University says its search for a new senior administrator will be restricted to “racially visible” and Indigenous candidates, part of its efforts to increase underrepresented groups on the Halifax campus.
In a memo to the university community, provost and vice-president academic Carolyn Watters said the prerequisite is in line with the principles of Dalhousie’s employment equity policy.
“We have embarked on the process of selecting a new vice-provost student affairs,” she stated in the memo last month, adding that the search “will be restricted to racially visible persons and Aboriginal Peoples at this time.”
This isn’t the first time this has happened in Canada. One needs to look no further than what the University of Victoria did, with justification provided here.
h/t William McNally and David Haskell
Support Lindsay Shepherd this Wednesday!
If you live in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, here’s hoping you can come out Wednesday evening and support Lindsay Shepherd:
The Laurier Society for Open Inquiry's first event is Wed. January 31.
Free & open to the public. Seating is first come first served.
We'll be screening the full episode of the panel discussion I showed in my tutorials & moderating a productive open floor discussion. pic.twitter.com/6tmbuImNbX
— Lindsay Shepherd (@NewWorldHominin) January 29, 2018
Even just capturing video on your camera or phone, and uploading it to YouTube, would be appreciated!
Why the Left is Evil
Visit The TC Douglas Building While You Still Can
A pub in a building where Sir John A. Macdonald once had his law office is dropping a reference to Canada’s first prime minister from its name after receiving requests to do so from members of the Indigenous community.
The Scottish pub in Kingston, Ont., once known as “Sir John’s Public House,” will now be called “The Public House,” its owner said, noting that a new sign was being erected Tuesday.
Along with a white flag.
(h/t Captain Obvious)
The Insularity & Insanity of the Anti-Trumpers
David Brooks has been no fan of Donald Trump. He still isn’t. But he has written a very interesting column that challenges the sincerity of his fellow Anti-Trumpers:
I mention these inconvenient observations because the anti-Trump movement, of which I’m a proud member, seems to be getting dumber. It seems to be settling into a smug, fairy tale version of reality that filters out discordant information. More anti-Trumpers seem to be telling themselves a “Madness of King George” narrative: Trump is a semiliterate madman surrounded by sycophants who are morally, intellectually and psychologically inferior to people like us.
What If?
What if a referendum on Free Speech were held federally in Canada on July 1st, 2018. Assume there were 3 options and the one garnering the most votes would become the law of the land.
When it comes to Free Speech in Canada, I would prefer to see the following enacted as federal law:
- Something akin to the First Amendment in America, where anyone can pretty much say anything, no matter how ‘hateful’ some might perceive it.
- Keep things as they are currently.
- Make the hate laws stronger to be more encompassing, with stronger penalties.
When commenting, please share two things: How would you vote & why and also share your best guess of what percentage of Canadians would vote for each of the three options.
Lindsay Shepherd is Interviewed by a Left-wing Podcast
Douglas Lain is a self-proclaimed man of the Left. He’s a writer and the publisher of Zero Books. Besides CBC News, his podcast is the first one of a left-wing bent that has invited Lindsay Shepherd to speak publicly.
You can listen to the interview here. It’s well worth listening to in full. Also check out the comments to witness a very different reality, such as this “brilliance” from ‘daniel’:
I love the fact that right wingers have appropriated the free speech position… As Marx gains in popularity, it will test their position and may prevent neo-McCarthyism… I went to a Marxist talk at Ryerson, and trump supporters (in Canada I know it’s weird) pulled the fire alarm to try and end the talk… this really wasn’t something of great interest to the media.
A Prime Tenet of the Radical Left: How Privileged Are You?
Here’s an Internet meme I first learned of in a Free Speech group I belong to. I imagine it was created by a horde of Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) with an especially strong dose of Permanent Victim Syndrome (PVS). One wonders what percentage of Western society reads this chart and thinks it speaks some semblance of truth.
The Party Is Being Run By Stupid People
A Toronto man who spent $550 building a set of stairs in his community park says he has no regrets, despite the city’s insistence that he should have waited for a $65,000 city project to handle the problem. The city is now threatening to tear down the stairs because they were not built to regulation standards.
“Conservative” Mayor John Tory…
Mayor John Tory acknowledged that the city estimate sounds “completely out of whack with reality” on Wednesday. However, he says that still doesn’t justify allowing private citizens to bypass city bylaws to build public structures themselves.
“I think everyone will understand that it will be more than $550,” he said on Wednesday. “We just can’t have people decide to go out to Home Depot and build a staircase in a park because that’s what they would like to have.”
He actually said that.
He actually said that.
Pay attention, conservative politicians who wish to be re-elected. This is what a conservative politician is supposed to say under such circumstances;
“The city will send an engineer to certify these stairs, and if they are determined to be sound, will compensate Mr. Astl for his materials and time.
After which, I’ll be launching an internal investigation into how this small building project came to generate a $65,000 estimate, and terminate the employment and/or contracts of those responsible for the fiasco.”
You’re welcome.
A Playbook for 2017
James Delingpole urges right thinking people to not rest on their laurels, comparing what happened in 2016 to merely the first few hours of the D-Day invasion. He argues that anyone who thinks the Leftist elite and their SJW stormtroopers are merely going to lie down and allow anything to be changed are in great denial.
As the great, now sadly-retired Thomas Sowell says, “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” Its malign influence is still with us today. Innocent boys being accused of rape on college campuses; genuine rapes committed by gangs of Muslim taxi drivers in northern England and by gangs of Muslim immigrants in German cities like Cologne; hundreds of thousands driven into fuel poverty, landscapes ravaged, avian fauna sliced and diced as a result of crazy renewable energy policies; a Nobel-prize-winning scientist driven out of his job because a feminist loser misreported something he said about women at a conference; generations of kids denied a rigorous, disciplined, useful education; the needless violence and tension engendered by #blacklivesmatter: we should never concede the moral high ground to the kind of people who make all this sort of stuff possible, no matter how many times they tell us how evil and selfish and uncaring we are.
An Outsider’s Look at Canada’s Multicultural Experiment
A Different Look at the White Privilege Meme
An ex-pat living in Japan has created a very interesting video that examines the phenomenon of “EthnoMasochism” only existing in the West:
The Foreign Media’s Love Affair with The Shiny Pony
Britain’s left-wing Guardian newspaper has posted a luvvy-duvvy “article” on Justin Trudeau. Any snippet from it would likely make most SDA regulars vomit so instead, here’s an apropos comment:
Really, the Guardian’s editorial board passed this nonsense with no one wondering about the doublespeak? Mr. Trudeau is the climate fighter passing pipelines? We help refugees by allowing a few of the masses in need? We create jobs for the future by investing in industries of the past? I think Mr. Trudeau is portraying himself as all things to all people; but, he is a neoliberal with a neoliberal agenda, and he doesn’t like to be criticized. He’s a good looking dude whose only difference from the previous PM is the hair; in Canada, we tend to be consistently governed by neoliberals which means really nothing ever changes. CETA was advocated by both conservative and liberal governments, the TPP was pushed, the fear of Mr. Trump and the destruction of NAFTA; it’s not so much the harm to the little guy, it is the fact big corporations (the executives) want to be in charge and with the populism, they are no longer, The world is against globalization, Canada sticks out because we are still a nice people; no, we are an obedient one which isn’t quite the same thing.