Jonathan Kay
editor. Book author. host. . Ex-coder/lawyer. Proud alum. engineering. law
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Election Night Results - Electoral Districts
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Election results by electoral district, for federal elections in Canada.
Jonathan Kay this week's byelection results put the NDP in Green Party territory. but the good news is that the dippers beat "John The Engineer Turmel" by almost 800 votes 7d
Trudeau says rebuilding a relationship with Indigenous people is part of the legacy he wants to leave
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The Prime Minister said if his government is able to accomplish that, all future Canadian governments will have to follow suit
Understanding the Miracle of Hanukkah Through the Ancient World's Prism of Horrors
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Satirist Alan King once famously remarked that the story behind every Jewish holiday can be summarized as “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat.” But that template doesn’t do justice to Hanukkah—which marks the period during the 2nd Century B.C...
Enjoli - 1980
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Ad from 1980 for Enjoli: The 8 hour perfume, by Charles of the Ritz. This is not the first ad for Enjoli - the first one came out in 1977 or 1978. It uses th...
Opinion: Queer and trans activists call on Pride board and executive director to step down
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Dionne Brand, Angela Robertson, Robyn Maynard and Beverly Bain are among queer community activists who have signed an open letter ahead of Pride's AGM today over its decision to allow police back into the parade
Why Wearing Lipstick Is a Small Act of Joyful Resistance
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Lipstick is unapologetically feminine. That's what makes it so rebellious
Jonathan Kay Here is some of her Very Responsible Writing 7d
Margaret Atwood’s Books Taught Me to Listen to Women—Now She Needs to Learn the Same Thing
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Listening skills are even more essential for real life than they are for fiction
Jonathan Kay needless to say, one of the "responsible" positions that advocates is that it is *wrong* to advocate for due process when someone already has been convicted by a mob. She has written at essay length about this. So much "empathy" 7d
Breaking a Monstrous Cycle
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The case for helping pedophiles before they hurt children
Jonathan Kay i agree 7d
The Unsafe Feminist: Rebecca West and the ‘Bitter Rapture’ of Truth
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In an era when indulgent university administrators and professors treat students like spoiled children, one longs for intellectuals who address their audience as adults. The British novelist, biographer, literary critic, travel writer and political...
Jonathan Kay my editing work at often allows me to get crash courses in topics that I should know about—but don't. no better example than Rebecca West, an important 20th-c writer whose oeuvre I am just now discovering thanks to Peter Baehr. have a read 7d
Ivy League Students Kick SNL Comedian Nimesh Patel Off Stage
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Ivy League Students Kick SNL Comedian Nimesh Patel Off Stage
Jonathan Kay Nimesh Patel, the 1st Indian-Am writer for SNL, gets invited to ivy league diversity event, then gets booted for non-hashtag-approved jokes. as per usual, it wasnt the crowd that was angry, but a small group of assholes using censorship to peacock wokeness 7d
Rantz: Seattle Antifa protester threatens journalist: ‘Are you willing to die?'
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A man attempting to document the protests in Seattle last weekend found himself the target of an Antifa group who would not let him walk on the sidewalk. He got it all on camera.
Jonathan Kay antifa's jargon is bizarre at the best of times. but what the hell is a "penis camera"? unless you were 14 feet tall, wouldnt that be a remarkably ineffective vantage point from which to record street confrontations? 7d
India’s Dangerous New Curriculum
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Since last year, students at the Saifee School in Rajasthan have been using new textbooks published by the government, which is run by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that dominates India’s parliament and state legislatures. The...
Justifying Diversity
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No one working in or around a US university can think of assembling a class, a set of interviewees for a job, a special issue of a journal, or a scholarly panel without making sure it is suitably “diverse.” Not only admissions officers but students,...
Jonathan Kay given the source (Noah Feldman, ) I was surprised at this vigorous critique of diversity as a rationale for affirmative action (1/2).... 8d
Brazil’s Brutal Messiah
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If we were to think of Brazil as a person rather than a country, as Lilia Schwarcz and Heloisa Starling encourage us to do in their sweeping new history Brazil: A Biography, it would be someone who, at the moment, seems schizophrenic. Consider, for...
Jonathan Kay 12/6 edition of contains this very interesting piece on the history of Brazil, which sounds like the most racist place in the Americas. the country contains more people of African descent than any actual African country except Nigeria 8d
Trudeau criticized for tweet to Trevor Noah pledging $50M charity gift | CBC News
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Canada will contribute $50 million to a global charity for children's education, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted to comedian Trevor Noah, a pledge that quickly drew criticism both for its content and its form.
Jonathan Kay "oh, and Sally Struthers, here's 50 bucks for ChildFund" 8d
Jonathan Kay what bothered me most about this was the sheer tackiness. it's like the guy on the Vegas trip who throws the 50$ tip on the steakhouse table, but waits till the waitress is watching before he does it. (and then you find out he's on expense account) 7d
Don't Be Irreverent – for Sky Gilbert
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Also check out Sky Gilbert's blog post, I’m Afraid of ‘Woke People’
RIDICULOUS Pilot Behavior in Flight Simulator X (Multiplayer ATC)
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I encounter some ridiculous pilots during my shift as air traffic controller in Atlanta including an ultralight declaring emergency and a 737 pilot trying to...
Jonathan Kay best part is at 4:00 8d
Dutch court rejects man's request to be 20 years younger
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The court said it acknowledged "a trend in society for people to feel fit and healthy for longer, but did not regard that as a valid argument for amending a person's date of birth."
“Nature is full of rapists” - Epsilon Archive for Student Projects
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Above all else, Toronto council rookie Cynthia Lai believes in herself | The Star
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During the municipal election campaign, Cynthia Lai says she was encouraged to tone down her ways.
Jonathan Kay this profile of (which fronts today's edition) is interesting. and i share the desire for more rail infrastructure. but the comparison to Tokyo isn't helpful. the Greater Tokyo Area contains ~40m people, more than Canada's pop. 8d