As noted in the comment above, “mass immigration, antisemitism, and transgender ideology are all symptoms of the evil idolatry of Leftist ‘progressivism.’” In the field of education, the triad of school boards, teacher regulatory bodies, and unions have long been champagne socialists, if not Antifa-lite anarchists and bashers of reason. If one fights back, one is crushed. In my case, something as small as land acknowledgements are treated as sacred cows though most teachers and students are troubled by them. I am of course honoured that a writer as cogent as James Pew remembers me as I slip slowly into oblivion. He states: “Let’s purchase a copy of The Scarlet Lesson, Jim McMurtry’s new book, and support his fight against an illiberal school board who fired him for imparting historical truths about Indian Residential Schools to students.” My book is my last stand. It infuriates my adversaries and may bring more harm to me. It is like the plethora of articles by James on Woke Watch Canada, markers of discontent in an age of conformity to leftist madness and “evil idolatry.”
I am someone who is familiar with Ontario's public education system. I would estimate that for every teacher who is willing to stick out his/her neck and make a courageous stand for the truth there are at least 1,000 like-minded teachers who recognize the madness, but can't afford the time, energy and money it would cost them to say something. The Boards have made examples of a tiny number of teachers, and that is enough to keep everyone else in line, lest they risk "suspension, pending investigation," which will take years. Too bad the public isn't allowed to know about these cases.
Not even fellow teachers in the same school are permitted to know anything. Suddenly, a colleague disappears and all it takes is a slight raising of one eyebrow to tell you that you shouldn't ask too many questions about it. You wouldn't want to have to face the Equity Officers, would you? And you can be certain that the union WON'T have your back, because they've drunk the same DEI-Woke kool-aid.
I no longer wonder what it would be like to live in a Stasi state.
Well said! You have expressed thoughts and feelings that haunt me daily. We can't dwell on the negative too much, or it can be overwhelming, but we should be willing to acknowledge when something is wrong and try to fix it. This includes identifying the problem. That seems to be the biggest barrier for many Canadians: they don't know or want to know that these things are happening. That denialism and complicity are how evil wins and the good is defeated. So it is imperative to speak the truth, however awful. I am glad that some others, such as you, are doing so. Mass immigration, antisemitism, and transgender ideology are all symptoms of the evil idolatry of Leftist "progressivism" -- which is a religion of a kind. I certainly hope Chow is defeated. She is in bed with the CCP -- another evil entity infiltrating Canada that you didn't mention here.
Sam Cooper at The Bureau on Substack reports on China’s elite and institutional capture, their money laundering into Canada’s housing market and their prominence in fentanyl manufacturing and export.
Thank you Jim for what you are doing as well. I know you have been persecuted and targeted regarding sharing the historic context of residential schools. Thank you for continuing to applying pressure on the Progressive narrative. I will keep you and your family in prayer.
Social justice progressivism, with its reverse racist and reverse sexist prejudice and discrimination and indigenous supremacism, was foisted on Canada by the Trudeau Liberals, a truly illiberal party. Prior to the last election, Canadian voters had elected that Party and Prime Minister three times! That alone suggests a deep sickness in Canada. Then, with the last election, Canadians had a chance to make a correction. And what did they do? Reelected the Liberals. The only conclusion is that Canadians like the state of the country. They like illiberal policies; they like courts that do not care about Canadians' rights or about the law; they like Hamas and do not like Jews. You and I think the country is broken, but Canadians like the country just the way it is. Let's place the responsibility where it belongs.
“ Counter revolutionary “ :). Who would have thought this expression would be turned so upside down? Alas, I posit we - in Canada- are watching our beloved Dominion collapsing before our eyes. Sad, so sad. And without a shot being fired. Instead, birth rates, immigration, smoke bombs , daily demos with Mark Carney approval. All under the watchful of compliant police/ leadership. A certain generation remembers 1967 pre Trudeau. 😕
An aside X/Twitter exploded with Waterloo District School Board promoting “ Family” as white based racism. The Chair Trustee declared fhe 32 slide pack was “taken out of context “. Alas this upcoming generation- fed by progressive teachers. Will never know what our country once was.
We won’t turn the corner away from the ongoing menace of the illiberal woke left without a change in government in Ottawa. (After three consecutive majority victories in Ontario, Ford is finally tinkering around the edges with the dysfunctional mess in the public school system but whether he has the guts to follow through remains to be seen. Teachers in Ontario like to strike.)
On the national level, the collapse of the NDP vote propping up the tired Liberal Party was a tactical one. Trump provided wonderful cover for an even better reason: to stave off a Conservative Government evisceration of 24/7 DEI/woke policies and FUNDING for the incredible number of hangers on whose income is derived from government sponsored lobbying and general activism. The rot needs rooting out of school boards, universities and public service unions that are failing their members with their Palestine politics.
Conservatives will get their turn, and the public mood is shifting but there is no sign that the Carney administration is going to change anything. There are too many voters to coddle.
Everything about your comment is spot on, especially:
“The Boards have made examples of a tiny number of teachers, and that is enough to keep everyone else in line, lest they risk "suspension, pending investigation," which will take years. Too bad the public isn't allowed to know about these cases. Not even fellow teachers in the same school are permitted to know anything. Suddenly, a colleague disappears and all it takes is a slight raising of one eyebrow to tell you that you shouldn't ask too many questions about it.“
I agree completely that the West's response to the Gaza genocide is heart breaking. Every day the papers reveal disgusting atrocities committed against the Palestinian people each one more tragic than the others. Starvation, bombing hospitals, ambulances, schools, refugee camps, killing babies, children and innocent civilians, destroying homes, the list just keeps on growing and the west talks the talk about intervention but fails to walk the walk. It truly is heart breaking and the principle culprit is the US, land of the free. It is really hard to comprehend that what ever well deserved criticism that falls on the shoulders of western jews is even marginally comparable. Canada has been slow to respond to this barbarism but the recent decision by the RCMP to investigate those nationalists that left Canada to fight with the IDF, for war crimes is encouraging. No one would deny that the holocaust was an unimaginable tragedy for the Jewish people but under no circumstances does it give them a free ticket to ride to commit similar or worse atrocities against their neighbors.
The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
This piece doesn’t mention Gaza. It does mention the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada. You could have written a decent comment about that, instead you chose to spew anti-Semitic Hamas propaganda. You are everything that is wrong with Canada.
"I agree completely that the West's response to the Gaza genocide is heart breaking."
Where did you see anything about Gaza in this article?
If you cared about "Palestinian people," you'd want Hamas defeated ASAP. Thank God the IDF has the courage, the means and the will to do just that, despite the best efforts of those working to undermine the West with Hamas propaganda.
An important article. Thank you for this, and to those few who stand up, speaking the Truth. The mob is not always right, be it an imported medieval hater or an "educated" indoctrinated lost soul. I often wonder, why the "leftist" always virtue signal themselves to others as some righteous do-gooder, yet their actions are often far from it.
As noted in the comment above, “mass immigration, antisemitism, and transgender ideology are all symptoms of the evil idolatry of Leftist ‘progressivism.’” In the field of education, the triad of school boards, teacher regulatory bodies, and unions have long been champagne socialists, if not Antifa-lite anarchists and bashers of reason. If one fights back, one is crushed. In my case, something as small as land acknowledgements are treated as sacred cows though most teachers and students are troubled by them. I am of course honoured that a writer as cogent as James Pew remembers me as I slip slowly into oblivion. He states: “Let’s purchase a copy of The Scarlet Lesson, Jim McMurtry’s new book, and support his fight against an illiberal school board who fired him for imparting historical truths about Indian Residential Schools to students.” My book is my last stand. It infuriates my adversaries and may bring more harm to me. It is like the plethora of articles by James on Woke Watch Canada, markers of discontent in an age of conformity to leftist madness and “evil idolatry.”
Jim, thank you for your brave stand.
I am someone who is familiar with Ontario's public education system. I would estimate that for every teacher who is willing to stick out his/her neck and make a courageous stand for the truth there are at least 1,000 like-minded teachers who recognize the madness, but can't afford the time, energy and money it would cost them to say something. The Boards have made examples of a tiny number of teachers, and that is enough to keep everyone else in line, lest they risk "suspension, pending investigation," which will take years. Too bad the public isn't allowed to know about these cases.
Not even fellow teachers in the same school are permitted to know anything. Suddenly, a colleague disappears and all it takes is a slight raising of one eyebrow to tell you that you shouldn't ask too many questions about it. You wouldn't want to have to face the Equity Officers, would you? And you can be certain that the union WON'T have your back, because they've drunk the same DEI-Woke kool-aid.
I no longer wonder what it would be like to live in a Stasi state.
Same here and so true. Toronto, Waterloo, Windsor, Peel. No teacher dare speak out.
I know we can add Hamilton, London and Ottawa to that list.
For all I know, this is Canada-wide. Probably is.
To paraphrase Ellie Wiesel “ indifference poses the greatest danger”!
Too many Canadians are indifferent to the damage being perpetrated against decent Canadians. A lot of it by our politicians.
Well said! You have expressed thoughts and feelings that haunt me daily. We can't dwell on the negative too much, or it can be overwhelming, but we should be willing to acknowledge when something is wrong and try to fix it. This includes identifying the problem. That seems to be the biggest barrier for many Canadians: they don't know or want to know that these things are happening. That denialism and complicity are how evil wins and the good is defeated. So it is imperative to speak the truth, however awful. I am glad that some others, such as you, are doing so. Mass immigration, antisemitism, and transgender ideology are all symptoms of the evil idolatry of Leftist "progressivism" -- which is a religion of a kind. I certainly hope Chow is defeated. She is in bed with the CCP -- another evil entity infiltrating Canada that you didn't mention here.
Sam Cooper at The Bureau on Substack reports on China’s elite and institutional capture, their money laundering into Canada’s housing market and their prominence in fentanyl manufacturing and export.
When a wound is hemorrhaging you apply pressure. A similar principal applies towards Liberal Progressivism. Unrelenting stubborn opposition.
Thank you Jim for what you are doing as well. I know you have been persecuted and targeted regarding sharing the historic context of residential schools. Thank you for continuing to applying pressure on the Progressive narrative. I will keep you and your family in prayer.
Social justice progressivism, with its reverse racist and reverse sexist prejudice and discrimination and indigenous supremacism, was foisted on Canada by the Trudeau Liberals, a truly illiberal party. Prior to the last election, Canadian voters had elected that Party and Prime Minister three times! That alone suggests a deep sickness in Canada. Then, with the last election, Canadians had a chance to make a correction. And what did they do? Reelected the Liberals. The only conclusion is that Canadians like the state of the country. They like illiberal policies; they like courts that do not care about Canadians' rights or about the law; they like Hamas and do not like Jews. You and I think the country is broken, but Canadians like the country just the way it is. Let's place the responsibility where it belongs.
You pretty much covered everything that has me shaking my head lately. Thank you.
Already got my book, "The Scarlet Lesson" in the mail.
Hi thanks. I follow your writings . And always accurate and insightful.
Greed piece. I’m with you on every word
“ Counter revolutionary “ :). Who would have thought this expression would be turned so upside down? Alas, I posit we - in Canada- are watching our beloved Dominion collapsing before our eyes. Sad, so sad. And without a shot being fired. Instead, birth rates, immigration, smoke bombs , daily demos with Mark Carney approval. All under the watchful of compliant police/ leadership. A certain generation remembers 1967 pre Trudeau. 😕
An aside X/Twitter exploded with Waterloo District School Board promoting “ Family” as white based racism. The Chair Trustee declared fhe 32 slide pack was “taken out of context “. Alas this upcoming generation- fed by progressive teachers. Will never know what our country once was.
We won’t turn the corner away from the ongoing menace of the illiberal woke left without a change in government in Ottawa. (After three consecutive majority victories in Ontario, Ford is finally tinkering around the edges with the dysfunctional mess in the public school system but whether he has the guts to follow through remains to be seen. Teachers in Ontario like to strike.)
On the national level, the collapse of the NDP vote propping up the tired Liberal Party was a tactical one. Trump provided wonderful cover for an even better reason: to stave off a Conservative Government evisceration of 24/7 DEI/woke policies and FUNDING for the incredible number of hangers on whose income is derived from government sponsored lobbying and general activism. The rot needs rooting out of school boards, universities and public service unions that are failing their members with their Palestine politics.
Conservatives will get their turn, and the public mood is shifting but there is no sign that the Carney administration is going to change anything. There are too many voters to coddle.
Everything about your comment is spot on, especially:
“The Boards have made examples of a tiny number of teachers, and that is enough to keep everyone else in line, lest they risk "suspension, pending investigation," which will take years. Too bad the public isn't allowed to know about these cases. Not even fellow teachers in the same school are permitted to know anything. Suddenly, a colleague disappears and all it takes is a slight raising of one eyebrow to tell you that you shouldn't ask too many questions about it.“
I agree completely that the West's response to the Gaza genocide is heart breaking. Every day the papers reveal disgusting atrocities committed against the Palestinian people each one more tragic than the others. Starvation, bombing hospitals, ambulances, schools, refugee camps, killing babies, children and innocent civilians, destroying homes, the list just keeps on growing and the west talks the talk about intervention but fails to walk the walk. It truly is heart breaking and the principle culprit is the US, land of the free. It is really hard to comprehend that what ever well deserved criticism that falls on the shoulders of western jews is even marginally comparable. Canada has been slow to respond to this barbarism but the recent decision by the RCMP to investigate those nationalists that left Canada to fight with the IDF, for war crimes is encouraging. No one would deny that the holocaust was an unimaginable tragedy for the Jewish people but under no circumstances does it give them a free ticket to ride to commit similar or worse atrocities against their neighbors.
The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
Barry McGuire...1965.....THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION
This piece doesn’t mention Gaza. It does mention the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada. You could have written a decent comment about that, instead you chose to spew anti-Semitic Hamas propaganda. You are everything that is wrong with Canada.
Thank you James, well said, what biased gibberish.
I am comforted by the axiom that strong and angry words show weak cause. I am going to turn the other cheek, Jim.
Are you insane?
"I agree completely that the West's response to the Gaza genocide is heart breaking."
Where did you see anything about Gaza in this article?
If you cared about "Palestinian people," you'd want Hamas defeated ASAP. Thank God the IDF has the courage, the means and the will to do just that, despite the best efforts of those working to undermine the West with Hamas propaganda.
An important article. Thank you for this, and to those few who stand up, speaking the Truth. The mob is not always right, be it an imported medieval hater or an "educated" indoctrinated lost soul. I often wonder, why the "leftist" always virtue signal themselves to others as some righteous do-gooder, yet their actions are often far from it.
Language is important. You could start by not using the left’s language such as “gender affirming care”.
Thank you, Zoltar. You delight and uplift me.