Canada is Not Well!

Clownish Forms: How the Left is driving everyone crazy

Alice Attwod a Canadian man who identifies as trans who was out on bail posting to social media after he stabbed his 7 and 8 year old children.

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By James Pew

The cultural rot manifest today, but which crystallized from the theories of radical leftwing thinkers of the late 1960s cannot be ignored or understated. One of the New Left’s antinomian leaders, who had reached the popular height of intellectual rockstar during the cultural turbulence of that era, was Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt School. In 1965 he penned his infamous Repressive Tolerance where he posited that liberal tolerance was inherently repressive, and that an updated type of tolerance he called “liberation tolerance,” was required. However, this “liberating tolerance” did not result in the liberation its name implied, but rather granted the political Left license for acts of actual intolerance — even violence — to target and shut down the political right. Marcuse saw this as necessary to break through “one-dimensional” society and achieve genuine progress toward a non-repressive order, which apparently, eventually, would be liberatory for all. The insanity of Repressive Tolerance explains much about our present condition, but deserves its own full examination (which I will save for another day).

Marcuse didn’t stop at redefining tolerance — he went much further in outlining how to enact cultural subversion. In 1969 he penned an influential treatise which has greatly contributed to the general dysfunction, confusion and frustration of our modern moment. The work in question is Marcuse’s 1969 book An Essay On Liberation. While defenders of Marcuse argue he sought only to protect dissent, the book’s core premise is advocacy for a deliberate, provocative strategy to demoralize through “disorderly, uncivil, farcical, artistic desublimation of culture,” essentially upending norms and subverting the status quo. According to Marcuse, this is “why the rebellion often takes on the weird and clownish forms which get on the nerves of the Establishment.”

In Canada, this Marcusean blueprint has found fertile ground, manifesting in the weird, clownish disruptions that now define much of our public life — from violent shout-downs at universities and public protests, to the subversion of cultural norms, all pervaded by — to mimic Marcuse’s own linguistic desecrations — the same unprincipled and permissible anti-structure of the Canadian elites’ moral non-framework.

Consider the following “clownish forms” of late, which have shaken and frustrated Canadians:

On February 10, 2026, in the small rural town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, a remote mining community (population around 2,000–3,000) — one of the most shocking and deadliest acts of mass violence in Canadian history took place. A man who identifies as trans killed eight people, including 5 youths aged 12-13, and injured 27 others. In the immediate aftermath, the traumatized families of the dead and injured, and the entire Canadian population, had to endure both law enforcement and elites of various stripes referring to the deranged man who ruthlessly killed innocent children en masse, as “her,” “she,” and a “woman.” One would think that mass killing children might be enough to cancel out a killer’s privilege to manipulate and force others into his sick and psychologically destabilizing leftist gender charade. But one would be wrong. In clownish Canada, we respect the chosen pronouns and gender identities of mentally unstable, anti-social and dangerous people, even after they commit the most wanton acts of violence imaginable. Our unhinged commitment to diversity and inclusion, while shameful and senseless, is that strong.

On February 13th, children’s advocate and critic of gender ideology, Billboard Chris, posted to X regarding another Canadian man who identifies as trans, who the previous year had stabbed his 7-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter — severing his daughter’s esophagus causing her to be fed from a tube for months after undergoing emergency surgery. The man, who goes by the name Alice Attwood was out on bail and living in a van in Calgary where he was producing and posting content about the violence he perpetrated against his own children to social media. As if this clownish form wasn’t frustrating enough, the side of Alice’s van is painted with “Every Child Matters.”

Shockingly the Crown Prosecutor only sought five and a half years for Attwood’s aggravated assault against his own children (which he pled guilty), but Justice Jasmine Sihra only imposed five.

Less than a week after the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, on February 18th, a ruling came down from the British Columbia Human’s Rights Tribunal — Canada’s very own kangaroo court — which “ignores science to silence debate on gender ideology.” Barry Neufeld, an-80-year old man and former trustee of the Chilliwack school board was fined $750K for speaking out about government policy, specifically SOGI 123. After the ruling was made public, British comedian John Cleese posted to X “What a pity ! I’m arranging a theatrical tour of Canada this Fall, and now I won’t be able to risk doing any shows in British Columbia. I was really looking forward to coming.” And last week we found out that a theatre in Nanaimo, B.C. canceled a show by the popular comedian Ben Bankas, claiming hosting the event would violate “obligations” under B.C. human rights code.

On February 25, the Ontario Court of Appeal reduced the sentence of Kenneth Morrison, an aboriginal man who killed a man with cerebral palsy during a home invasion, from a life sentence to 12 years, sending a clear message to all would-be aboriginal home invaders with a taste for blood that consequences for cruelty and murder are not so bad. Originally sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, he “successfully appealed his case to Ontario’s top court, which set aside his murder conviction, substituted a conviction for manslaughter, and sentenced him again.” In the spirit of clownishness that only a Canadian judge can muster, Morrison’s Indigenous status was of course considered a mitigating factor.

On March 3, Quillette editor Jon Kay posted the following to X about the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) “13th annual Decolonizing Conference”:

“this is a @UofT conference

Imagine paying $250 so u can spend three days listening to unhinged bullshit about “decolonizing approaches” to “Interspecies intimacies: Finding the space for kinky desires”

The @OISEUofT hosts are the ppl who train Ontario’s grade-school teachers”

Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney commented on X, “This reads like an over the top parody of woke academic nuttiness. But it is *actual* material being used to train school teachers.” Kenney then lists several of the OISE course titles to illustrate his point:

• “Decoloniality of connectedness as a tool for unmasking ongoing coloniality of higher education”

• “Debrahminizing and Decolonizing the Diasporic Plate: Gustatory Politics among South Asian students”

• “The Discursive Architecture of Genocide Denial: Israeli Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Devaluation of Palestinian Life”

On March 3, Nancy Grewal, an outspoken critic of Khalistan extremism and separatism was stabbed 18 times and succumbed to her injuries in LaSalle, Ontario. She had previously received 40 death threats from Khalistani radicals. Online claims of responsibility have emerged, including from a Sikh extremist account. The case is being treated as a targeted homicide. Canadians exhausted by the unrelenting onslaught of clownish forms, have become accustomed, and apparently have accepted that political violence originating from foreign cultures will often spill over into Canada’s diverse, dangerous, and now exceedingly bloody, multicultural society.

On March 6 taxpayers in the province of Quebec learned that they could soon be forced to fund daycare for every person claiming refugee status in Canada, thanks to a recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling. Josh Dehaas, a civil liberties advocate and lawyer with the Canadian Constitution Foundation, told Juno News “that this decision could open the floodgates, forcing Canadians to also pay for housing and healthcare services for refugee claimants.”

Turning to the clownish forms projected by the “truth and reconcilers” of Canada’s aboriginal industry. On the heels of the controversial, and flawed Cowichan decision, in late February the federal government signed an agreement recognizing the Musqueam Indian Band’s Aboriginal title across a vast region encompassing much of Metro Vancouver, including areas like Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, parts of Surrey, Delta, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, New Westminster, Coquitlam, UBC, Vancouver International Airport, and related waterways (based on a 1976 Musqueam declaration and the agreement’s geographic definition).

While official sources and reporting emphasized that the agreement does not affect private property rights, residents are not surprisingly worried. CHEK News’ reporting on the evictions of a hundred trailer park residents in the Comox Valley by the K’omoks First Nation have naturally adding to the anxieties of Canadian property owners subject to these types of amendments or alterations concerning title to their property. In the latter case, many residents of the Queneesh Mobile Home park — who have less than two years to move off the property — are claiming they were not made aware of any limitations concerning their lease agreements. Kathy Jenkins, a park resident of 34 years, said “There’s no place to move our trailers to on the Island. We are stuck. We have put our life savings into this trailer, and now we have to leave with nothing. That is ludicrous.” And Don Cropley, a park resident of 18 years, said “I’m just really appalled at the First Nations for deciding to develop this land when they have a whole bunch of other tracts of land that are in really nice locations, and they’ve chosen to displace all us people.”

Canada of course takes displaced people from hostile foreign places very seriously. We are known to open our arms to the world’s refugees. But displaced elderly white Canadians, screwed out of their wealth and security, the product of their entire life’s work, by a greedy, careless and entitled aboriginal band, barely garners any attention from the media.

Posted to X by Holly Doan of Blacklock’s Reporter. The caption read: “Feds censor as ‘confidential’ files on what Kamloops First Nation did with $12.1 million in funding to recover alleged Indian Residential School graves.

On March 6 clownish forms in the shape of squared black blobs assaulted the sensibilities and patience of Canadians when Blacklock’s Reporter received the “confidential” files regarding the Kamloops band’s false claim of 215 unmarked graves of murdered former IRS students. Blacklock’s had requested the documents from the government through the freedom of information process. Apparently that process is not so free as what was received was almost entirely redacted. The Kamloops Band has perpetrated perhaps the biggest hoax and con of taxpayer dollars in Canadian history, they have utterly desecrated our international reputation and national sense of pride, but for some reason Canada just can’t get over the woke idea that aboriginals are “equity-deserving,” sacred in all things, and must be protected from scrutiny even when they clearly act in the most awful, dishonest, and un-Canadian fashion possible.

After American and Israeli forces began military operations in Iran which killed the murderous terrorist and theocratic tyrant Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, carnage Carney — Canada’s unfortunate and disastrous Prime Minister — did not just flip-flop a little and drop-the-ball on his response. First off, he never had the ball. For five days in a row Carney’s public opinions on the matter contradicted each other and rendered our hapless leader into a fuzzy muddle of schizophrenic confusion. According to Juno News, “Carney initially endorsed the strikes, later called for diplomacy, then suggested the attacks may violate international law before now walking back his call for de-escalation.”

Canadians were given the impression that Carney’s TDS prevents him from fully supporting any MAGA-directed good deeds, but that his sense of political self-preservation kicked in just enough to inspire a few semi-positive platitudes of hollow U.S./Israeli support, but then he remembered his base and all those Islamists voters he desperately does not want to offend — like those Islamic terrorist-supporting worshippers at the Masumeen Islamic Centre in Brampton, Ontario who celebrated Khamenei’s death as “martyrdom.”

This particular clown show has heated up substantially. As of this writing, and since the outset of the Iran conflict, three synagogues and several Jewish and Persian owned businesses have been shot up in the GTA.

During the rollout of the above described Canadian clownish forms, Professor Frances Widdowson had taken her Spectrum Street Epistemology mats to several university campuses to discuss the many unlikely claims of Canada’s aboriginal Truth and Reconciliation industry. The clownish forms that were the result defy description. By all appearances students have been utterly brainwashed and transformed into histrionic and unhinged anti-social automata. When professor Widdowson visited the University of British Columbia at the end of January, I could hardly take serious the eruption of indecent and violent mob behaviour on the part of students and members of faculty and the public, so I characterize the incident as a zombie invasion, and satirized the debacle in my piece UBC: Campus of the Dead.

Then in early March there was a repeat student protest zombie apocalypse at the University of Lethbridge where professor Widdowson and entourage intended to engage students in thoughtful dialog — a thing which rarely occurs, if at all, at modern Canadian universities. There are hours of video footage circulating social media which documents clearly the clownish forms that have enveloped Canadian universities and their brainwashed student bodies.

Then on March 6, a video was posted to Facebook by Harman Bhangu, the MLA Langley–Abbotsford, who had intended to address students, but was first forced to take refuge in a washroom at UBC to seek safety from students armed with feces and urine because “they didn’t want to hear what conservatives have to say.”

All of this amounts to a grotesque devolution of higher education in Canada, as all of the other clownish forms detailed above amount to similarly devasting national regression. This nonsense should be the straws that break the camel’s back. But the Canadian camel has a spine of wrought iron, and the populace, being propagandized and psychologically terrorized into impotent submission, are too frustrated, too demoralized, and too fed-up to even care. Canada is not well!

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