Apr 9 2019 — Michael Coren — iPolitics — This week the ultra-right-wing Canadian commentator Faith Goldy was banned from Facebook and Instagram, after earlier being prevented from crowdfunding on Patreon, from the online payment system PayPal, and even from Airbnb. The ban extends to pages and groups affiliated with her, and Facebook also banned, among others, the Canadian Nationalist Front, Aryan Strikeforce, Wolves […]
Apr 4 2019 — Michael Coren — Toronto Star — OK, here’s a little secret from “one of them,” someone who writes for many of Canada’s major publications and appears regularly on television and radio. The political and media class are obsessed with SNC-Lavalin and its various sub-stories to a ridiculous degree. They take extraordinary joy in adopting sides on the issue and attributing hero […]
Mar 29 2019 — Michael Coren — Maclean's — Next week I finish my Masters of Divinity degree at Trinity College, University of Toronto. For three years I’ve been studying the form, history, foundation, politics, language and philosophy of religion. I’ve mixed with people of almost all faiths, discovered much from and about them, and also been strengthened on my own religious path.
Mar 19 2019 — Michael Coren — Now Toronto — In the wake of the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, what has to be stated loudly and clearly is that Islamophobia has become the last acceptable prejudice in allegedly polite society. And that those who may even reject racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia often still hold on to anti-Muslim views. In Canada, this is even more […]
Mar 11 2019 — Michael Coren — Toronto Star — Canadian issues I wish would receive anything like the same media attention as SNC-Lavalin: The terror of homelessness faced by so many, the impending disaster of climate change and the apathy of most of our politicians, the plight of Indigenous people, the lack of access to health care, the reality of unemployment and near poverty […]
Jan 21 2019 — Michael Coren — Toronto Star — Last week on Twitter a conservative activist and former school trustee wrote, “I’ve suspected @michaelcoren is a kiddie diddler for some time. Just a suspicion, mind you, I’m not saying he is. But I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if we end up reading about him in some sordid, wicked setting …” It’s not […]
Jan 9 2019 — Michael Coren — Now Toronto — Last week, something known as the Islamic Party of Ontario enjoyed some brief notoriety, thanks to various conservative commentators at the Toronto Sun eager to pounce on anything that appears to paint Islam and Muslims in a poor light.
Jan 3 2019 — Michael Coren — iPolitics — Just like any other year in the Middle East, 2019 will be characterized by its lack of predictability, which makes estimating what will happen inherently difficult. Looking back on the history of the region: the best minds in Israel failed to prepare for the 1973 Arab-Israeli War; not one intelligence service thought the shah of […]
Dec 13 2018 — Michael Coren — Toronto Star — Last week, a two-decade old recording of Jason Kenney, Alberta’s United Conservative Party leader and one of the most prominent figures in Canadian conservatism, came to light. It contained some deeply disturbing comments. The tape reveals Kenney boasting of his helping to organize a petition demanding a referendum to repeal an ordinance that gave hospital […]
Dec 5 2018 — Michael Coren — iPolitics — Sometimes mailing lists can be worryingly out-of-date and inaccurate. This weekend, I received an emailed letter from Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College, addressed to “Pastor Michael.” (No, I haven’t suddenly been elevated to clerical status.) “I want to extend a personal invitation to you and your pastoral staff to come to the platform […]
Nov 28 2018 — Michael Coren — Now Toronto — There are many issues for which his government can be criticized, but that’s irrelevant to the new breed of conservatives, who at heart are really outraged by Trudeau’s genuine social liberalism – and the fact that he is a Trudeau. A demonstration in Calgary last Thursday to protest changes to Canada’s Environmental Assessment Act and […]
Nov 15 2018 — Michael Coren — Toronto Star — I was shocked when it was revealed that Christian conservative lawyer John Carpay had compared the rainbow flag to the Nazi swastika. Not because Carpay had drawn the grotesque juxtaposition, but because it had taken so long for such a sentiment to be made public. Last Saturday, Calgary-based Carpay, a leading voice with the Justice […]
Oct 26 2018 — Michael Coren — Toronto Star — To quote the late, great Oscar Wilde, himself the victim of callousness, there are people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. I wonder if Ontario Premier Doug Ford has read any Oscar Wilde? No, on second thoughts I don’t. Earlier this week, most of the MPPs in the Tory caucus […]
Oct 19 2018 — Michael Coren — CBC — Pope Francis has the most extraordinary ability to say the wrong things, often at the most sensitive times. Last Friday, he accepted the resignation of the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl — a controversial figure accused of doing too little to prevent, and perhaps even deliberately covering, up hideous sexual abuse cases. Beyond simply […]
Aug 7 2018 — Michael Coren — Toronto Star — I will never forget the time I first heard my father in genuine distress. He and my mum were speaking in what they thought were hushed tones, whispers of privacy, but in our small home I could hear through the walls some of what was being said. I was too young too understand the full […]