@jonkay
@quillette editor/writer/podcaster. Author. Advisor @fairforall_org & @FSU_Canada Ex-tax-lawyer -engineer -coder. Disc golf, 3D-printing, boardgames, baseball
Tom Digby 狄弼 @ThomasDigby1Last night, @ParkBoard did the right thing. Apologized to TGD2S community after emotional discussion. Shared some tears. Disavowed JKR. Will undertake concrete actions to rebuild trust.
Outsports @outsportsTrans woman Elle Yung was poised to compete on the Brandeis track team. Then came an NCAA ban. She’s found a new team in Canada.
Will Adams @ThisIsWillAdams1/ It literally took me three whole years, but my room is finally fully organized and looking decent! Worth every single minute of the wait. #CDNpoli #CanadaStrong
Stephanie Laidlaw @yogastephyWeird convo at dentist today. I stopped going to her for cleanings as I found an independent hygienist who runs a solo practice & will N95 for me and open windows. Unfortunately I needed work done on a chipped tooth. Anyway, she points to the Airfanta wearable and asks “is that
Trevor Norris 🪶 @TNorrisBC@ScienceTylia Yeah? Try being indigenous. You have it SO MUCH FUCKING EASIER than we do.
Some Guy In BC @MrBobDobalina__@jonkay How screwed up does your relationship have to be to visit her? I mean, she’s afraid of mingling with other people for fear she might get sick….and she’s going to give relationship advice?
mark @justtwoweeks20@jonkay Kristalnacht or bike lanes ? Pick a lane
Jack Grove @jgro_theVery happy to have been shortlisted in the Specialist Journalism category in this year's British Journalism Awards for my investigation into Cambridge University professor Jason Arday and the extensive plagiarism in his PhD thesis #BJA2026
Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen @TransRigoThe trans sports ban would require ALL girls participating in sports to get an invasive gender check exam. This is a ballot measure in Washington state.
Now Toronto @nowtorontoTransgender rights advocates are raising concerns about proposals from OneBC to restrict how sex and gender identity are recognized in British Columbia, warning that policies targeting Trans youth could undermine their safety, access to healthcare and well-being 🏳️⚧️ #BritishColumbia #Transgender #BC
Kim Goldberg @KimPigSquashHow did the Post-Election Grief Swim go last night in West Van? Any reports?
Jonathan Kay @jonkay.@Dave_Eby was an unmitigated disaster for BC & for Canada. He embraced every destructive progressive policy fad—drug decrim, genderwang, unmarked-graves social panic—and it is a special treat to see his arrogant election gambit end with his humiliation
Thomas Willett @ThomasWillett9“Helen Joyce does not have any formal education or qualifications even in biology, let alone in gender, sex or law... she is not an expert at all. She has no recognised expertise in any of the areas in which she expresses an opinion." — Federal Court of Australia
Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmoreSomething big has been happening this week, and with all the news happening, you probably didn’t hear about it. MPs from every federal party except the Liberals and Conservatives have banded together — and they’re sounding the alarm about Carney's destructive policies:
Free Speech Union of Canada @FSU_Canadain Toronto for the @HdxAcademy conference, great panel with @wokal_distance, @FrancesWiddows1, and @Aaronpete_ moderated by @jonkay
sarah hagi @KindaHagireal talk @BradMBradford, you ran a hell of a race. it’s prob hard to not have really dark thoughts but please know you are alone and you should give into them
Jonathan Kay @jonkayalong with the other dozen or so wing nuts who demanded that Galloway be smeared as a rapist were fellow taxpayer-salaried academics Julie Rak (@UAlberta ) & (Erin Wunker @DalhousieU). They produced an insane book about it, funded by 6 govt agencies. Your tax dollars at work
CTV News Vancouver @CTVVancouver‘Volatile situation brewing’: First Nations leader warns B.C.’s incoming premier
Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwoodGetting my grubby little paws on actual evidence.
iris yong @rogue_oilerWe gotta keep up the fight for orcas and every British Columbian whose human rights or very existence will be questioned by these cons.
APTN News @APTNNewsA Winnipeg NDP MP says the party has no intention of limiting free speech and wants to see residential school denialism made a prosecutable hate crime in only the most extreme circumstances. That's on Nation to Nation.
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenneyA lot of the recent drama on the right in BC came from a crazy right populist splinter party, @One_BCHQ. Made up of self styled “real conservatives” with the usual assortment of weird obsessions & conspiracy theories: vaccines, ostrich farms, chem trails, xenophobia, MAGA North, all communicated with the volume nob stuck on 10. Basically the BC counterpart of hard core Alberta separatist activists, or Bernier’s @peoplespca. Tonight they’re at 1.4% of the vote, after two years of being a hugely divisive distraction on the right of BC politics. Yet another reminder to Conservative parties: ignore the crazy fringe of the hard populist right. Don’t let the tail wag the dog. Let them stay in their little fringe parties. Being a principled conservative party does not mean pandering to incoherent, perennially angry populism. Instead, propose bold, thoughtful policy reforms rooted in conservative principles that appeal to the broad mainstream. Just like the @Conservative_BC did in this winning campaign.
