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Month: April 2012

Nova Scotia, a bastion of hate

April 24, 2012Jonathan McLeod 12 Comments

If this story is correct, Nova Scotians should be deeply, deeply embarrassed by their government: A transgender man in Nova Scotia has filed a human rights complaint after he was handed a $3,400 bill for a hysterectomy that he claims was… Continue Reading →

Justice, Social Issues Health Care, IWK Health Centre, Nova Scotia

“Fortunately, none of us were members of the Communist Party or the Ku Klux Klan.”

April 20, 2012Jonathan McLeod

Charles Lewis, writing in National Post, on his run-in with the Secret Service: I happily told the agent all about Seth, and what an idiot he was, and how he once got his younger brother to jump out of a… Continue Reading →

Bric-a-Brac, Justice Charles Lewis, Is Seth a communist, National Post, Secret Service

Rose started it.

April 19, 2012Jonathan McLeod 3 Comments

At Blinded Trials (probably my favourite sub-blog here at the League), Rose has a post up titled, Why male circumcision is (sometimes) morally kosher. I could not disagree more (keeping in mind that we’re talking about routine infant circumcision –… Continue Reading →

Culture, Justice Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Circumcision, Freddie De Boer, Rose Woodhouse

Jonathan Kay on John Derbyshire

April 12, 2012Jonathan McLeod 27 Comments

National Post‘s Jonathan Kay has some interesting thoughts on the Derb and The Talk: This is not ordinary racism. It is more interesting and antique than that: explicitly racialist in substance, but also ornamented with editorial grace notes and exhortations… Continue Reading →

Culture John Derbyshire, Jonathan Kay, National Post, Racism, The Talk

GOP Jukebox

April 12, 2012Jonathan McLeod 1 Comment

With Rick Santorum out, the Mitt Romney nomination is even more of a done deal. It seems to me that Romeny has left everyone feeling a little underwhelmed, so… Yes. This was just an excuse to post the video. I… Continue Reading →

Culture, Politics Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Sloan

New Lungs!

April 10, 2012Jonathan McLeod 2 Comments

Friday brought great news. Hélène Campbell (whom I wrote about in January) received a double lung transplant. She had been waiting for such a transplant for months and, recently, it had been reported that before the surgery, her lungs were functioning… Continue Reading →

Bric-a-Brac, Culture Ellen DeGeneres, Helene Campbell, Justin Bieber, Organ Donation

Worlds collide

April 5, 2012Jonathan McLeod 11 Comments

Stumbling through the Canadian blogosphere today, I found this post by Maclean’s Jaime Weinman, responding to Rose’s post arguing that Classic TV is Bad TV. A trailer: The TV drama era that started with Twin Peaks and culminated in The… Continue Reading →

Culture Jaime Weinman, Maclean's, Rose Woodhouse, Television

Good News: Transgendered Beauty Queen back in Miss Canada competition… maybe.

April 3, 2012Jonathan McLeod 3 Comments

Following up on Murali’s post from last week, Jenna Talackova is (potentially) back in the Miss Canada competition: Beauty queen Jenna Talackova, who was kicked out the Miss Universe Canada competition last month, will be allowed to compete after all,… Continue Reading →

Culture Jenna Talackova, Miss Canada

“The Road We’ve Travelled”

April 1, 2012Jonathan McLeod 1 Comment

Dan Gardner disects a recent Team Obama video, The Road We’ve Travelled, and suggests its core message is unlikey to resonate: The strategy here is not to say “maybe things aren’t so good but they’re better than they were.” That’s… Continue Reading →

Politics 2012, Barack Obama, Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen

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