Dented Blue Mercedes

Recently, the National Post published a discussion that I engaged in with Jonathan Kay. I participated in that because it was an opportunity to provide a counterpoint for readers who don’t ofte...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2019/12/21/the-bad-faith-debate-about-trans-human-rights/

UPDATE: As this was being readied for posting, the Standing Committee on Private Bills and Private Members’ Public Bills voted to recommend that Bill 207 not move forward in its current form, m...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/the-conscience-chronicles/

On Monday, July 8th, the U.S. State Department announced the launch of a Commission on Unalienable Rights, which is intended to rethink and reshape how human rights laws are applied around the wo...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/on-unalienable-human-rights/

American religious conservatives have a problem. Riding high on their partnerships with the Trump administration and the perception of being political kingmakers, they need to be sure that they w...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2019/05/17/unthinkable/

In the end, the “Alberta Advantage” was dependence. And in retrospect, undoing that dependence on the oil industry — a mixture of real and perceived — needed to be the number one priority...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2019/03/24/the-alberta-advantage-was-dependence/

On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a policy statement declaring that “The Academy stands against stigmatization and marginalization of youths and emphasizes the need ...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/support-trans-youth-say-pediatricians/

There’s a duplicitous game of sleight-of-hand that is taking place in discussions about freedom of speech in academia and the public square. Here’s how it works: at first, a person fishes for...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/free-speech-when-the-debate-is-you-and-youre-not-invited/

If gaslighting is “a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or members of a group, hoping to make targets question their own memory, perception, and sani...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/gospel-by-gaslight/

Although I’ll be remarking on the passing of Bill C-16 elsewhere, I wanted to post Bill Siksay’s closing speech from February 7, 2011, back when the bill was in its third incarnation (of five...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/trans-human-rights-bill-c-16-a-look-back/

A little over a week ago, a University of Guelph student union drew international ire for condemning Lou Reed’s 1972 song “Walk on the Wild Side” as transphobic.  This occurred after the C...

https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/what-the-walk-on-the-wild-side-controversy-says-about-trans-awareness-and-a-changing-social-movement/