What’s so dangerous about the anti-trans policy resolutions the party endorsed isn’t that they will become legislation any time soon, but their effect of bolstering Smith’s claim that she’s pursuing a sensible middleground with the anti-trans legislation she’s already introduced. But when it comes to basic human rights, there is no middle ground.

Russia isn’t creating these divisions in the West, they’re attempting to exploit them for geostrategic purposes. But what the Tenet indictment exposes is that the far-right is where the money is. They’re the ones calling the shots. Anyone who suggests both ends of the political spectrum are equally susceptible to foreign exploitation is obscuring this reality.

Like Jordan Peterson in his prime, Sylvain Charlebois will walk back his most outrageous suggestions by claiming he was just asking questions, accusing anyone who inferred otherwise of misinterpreting him. Making bold claims and then backing away from them by feigning neutrality as a dispassionate observer is what I call the “Charlebois Shuffle.”

On the second night of Hanukkah, the Postmedia-owned Ottawa Citizen published a crude piece of gross Holocaust revisionism from a Ukrainian nationalist academic. This comes during a year that has been a boon for rehabilitating Nazi collaborators and neo-Nazis as a result of Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Chrystia Freeland spoke at a rally against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 27, in which she was photographed holding up a scarf associated with a Ukrainian paramilitary organization that massacred thousands of Jews and Poles during the Second World War. Freeland, who has made her heritage a major focus of her political brand, could benefit from a serious lesson in optics.

The pandemic has accelerated the growth of an economy in which most of our human interactions are mediated by the very for-profit firms for whom our identities are the product being sold to companies seeking to predict and shape human behaviour. A more cautious approach to big tech’s overweening role in society is necessary once the pandemic dust settles.

When it comes to foreign policy, Justin Trudeau appears to have more in common with Stephen Harper than his father. As Jeremy Appel writes, while it is worth noting that there is much to admire in Trudeau’s domestic agenda, with its calls for legalizing assisted suicide and recreational cannabis, there is a triumphalism that infects Trudeau as much as it did Harper.