Author, commentator, blogger citizenship, multiculturalism and public policy. Former government exec w domestic & intl experience. Environics Inst fellow
RIP Marjane Satrapi, 1969-2026
For many years, I assigned Persepolis by Satrapi in a fourth year undergraduate seminar I teach on Iran. A brilliant, nuanced, touching, funny graphic novel about her life in Iran, the revolution & exile, it was always much appreciated by students
Absolutely entitled to your opinions. Never suggested otherwise. But any @CPC_HQ representative appearing on @RebelNewsOnline -a declared Alberta separatism advocacy group - is aiding and abetting that agenda.
Exceptional editorial on Mark Carney’s antisemitism speech and its lack of courage:
“He should have said: ‘If you oppose Israel’s existence, if you demonize Jewish-Canadians, you are wrong, you are hateful and I stand against you.’”
https://t.co/tG4AYUhra8
I am so done with these people. The harm they've done to genuine abuse victims, to my country, to reconciliation, is incalculable. All to protect themselves from accountability for the lies they've been telling. https://t.co/8sLvdtPEEV
First you have to prove the statement is false (unlikely), then that refusing to compare residential schools to the Holocaust is "downplaying," then that the refusal was motivated by hate. This is a performance of virtue that insults the intelligence.
“As a natural-born Canadian citizen, my loyalty is to the United States.”
This is where the cheapening of Canadian citizenship has taken us.
Someone who holds Canadian citizenship, but openly declares loyalty to a foreign state, and advocates for the destruction of Canadian sovereignty.
This is absurd.
If @arjunswritings had a shred of honour, he would renounce his Canadian citizenship.
And if Canada believes citizenship has any meaning, Parliament should amend the Citizenship Act to allow for the revocation of citizenship from those who have renounced their loyalty to Canada.
My latest for @quillette, on lessons for journalists to prevent the next unmarked-graves-type social panic. Lesson #1: Stop treating Indigenous sources as if they were sacred mystics who channel unfalsifiable "knowings." Like all of us, they make mistakes
https://t.co/qCAjdH4lYO
Delighted to write this piece in @globeandmail with my friend @ShimookaR
If we want the CAF to adapt, we need to accept the risks – and the breaking of the eggs in the process.
https://t.co/8k8EayLP8D
In @quillette, I closely analyzed the @globeandmail’s muddled five-year-anniversary unmarked-graves feature…in which the newspaper finally admits there might be no graves, but still refuses to acknowledge its role in spreading the original social panic
https://t.co/9GJHz9nS7C
The problem she apparently fails to see is that a referendum will force people to make a binary decision they may not want to make. Opinions are much more nuanced.
I am in a state of dissociative awe by how incredibly stupid, dangerous, and idiotic this all is. Just the inevitable result of a generation of unserious leadership and Conservative and Canadian dysfunction. https://t.co/neFs58aMsI
Immigration Department’s annual misconduct/wrongdoing report confirmed 105 cases, including admin misconduct (time theft, tardiness, absenteeism and unauthorized leave); nepotism; and 1 employee running a public blog to potentially “damage” dept reputation
https://t.co/6PjKiRIiPu