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In mid-January if this year, 2021, a man named Gerard Farry died in Vancouver at the age of 92. He wasn’t the sort of man who’d naturally be familiar to the readers of this website; he had been the director of urban planning for Greater Vancouver during the 1970s and 1980s, which was the heyday…
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Michael Boughn on quitting cigarettes, and quitting Facebook. Compare and contrast.
Read MoreIn his article “Speaking Out” (The Walrus, June 2019), Toronto-based 30-something freelance contrarian John Semley tells the story of the Wilfred Laurier University (WLU) teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd, who made international headlines when she was censured by a University examining committee for allegedly creating an unsafe learning environment for transgender students. The committee…
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Douglas Murray’s “The Madness of Crowds,” a critique of the “social justice movement,” is a conservative writer’s response to gays, feminists, race, and trans people. Stan Persky reviews it, keeping an eye on the tripwires in an ideological minefield.
Read MoreMax Fawcett searches for the prophet of atheism.
Read MoreJohn Harris posts a slightly argumentative view on the Statue Wars controversy
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Margaret Randall is thinking about statues, racism, and history.
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Did Trump say it? Did he deny saying it? Who knows?
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Woody Allen’s autobiography is not-so-great, but the films are more than good. Stan Persky reviews the book, the scandals, and the stuff on the silver screen.
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