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Barbara Kay: Parents in Every Province Should Be Badgering Politicians for Charter Schools

Commentary Growing old has its compensations. One is institutional memory. Having been educated in an era when “Western civilization” was not a trope to be spat out like a bad oyster, I was free to absorb the cultural glories of the past without shame. At my Toronto public high school, Latin was obligatory. I loved…


What It’s Like to Be Cancelled: The Pathology of ‘Mimetic Desire’ and the Case of Caylan Ford

Commentary Anyone with a spouse, child, parent, or close friend victimized by 21st-century “cancel culture” already knows it to be a profoundly disturbing, unjust, and soul-destroying experience. Vicious playwrights and the frantic mobs that follow their scripts have no respect for the limits of moral decency. The development of social media has empowered self-interested actors…