A letter from a Quebec school advising parents that a nonbinary teacher is using the pronoun Mx. ended up online last week, resulting in hateful threats, disparaging comments and the usual chorus of attention-hungry politicians and pundits decrying “wokeism.”
“Canada Post issued three new stamps honouring Quebec feminists Léa Roback, Madeleine Parent and Simonne Monet-Chartrand, who spent their lives fighting for gender equality, social justice and workers’ rights.”
“With only a week to go before school starts, Quebec currently has 8,558 teaching positions to fill — 1,859 full-time and 6,699 part-time. The teacher shortage has ‘gravely deteriorated’ and is three times worse than it was last year.”
Métro Média and its 30+ hyperlocal publications — including 17 print newspapers, 11 of which served the Montreal area — suspended publication last week.
While his comments were clearly offensive, Gad Saad is a shock pundit who specializes in hyperbole and the CAQ must be loving this controversy as it plays into their victimhood culture and distracts from their latest questionable decisions.
“This is our 11th year being part of the Pride Parade and our goal has always been to create a safe space for all individuals to express themselves during Pride in Montreal. There was already an increase in queerphobia and transphobia this year, but the catalyst was the cancellation of Carifiesta.”
Why the president of Shopify is moving to Montreal, why he thinks it’s one of the most entrepreneurial cities in the world and why he believes it has a unique opportunity to become the most important cultural hub in North America.
“One can and should criticize the protocol itself, but this was never a story about an English hospital refusing to serve a patient in French, no matter how irresistibly sexy those headlines might be for the Journal de Montréal.”
“Watching the Netflix documentary was deeply satisfying, but it was also a jumble of so many other things: nostalgic, joyful, entertaining, painful, tugging at my heartstrings and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. Was there really ever a time when all that neon, hairspray and tiny shorts were considered sexy?”
From Florida doctors gaining the right to refuse treatment to LGBTQ+ people to Canadian columnists expressing outrageous anti-trans views and residential-school denial, conservative “moral panic” has set in, to the detriment of minorities and marginalized communities.
