Trans-Conservative: Not an oxymoron By Blaine Badiuk “The TransConservative” Many people look puzzled when I tell them I am a conservative. “How can you be a transwoman AND a conservative?” is the most common reply I get. While the vast majority of transgender people do support more left-leaning parties, we are not a monolithic group! There is a growing number of us who are not afraid to be proudly conservative. I want to use this first article as an opportunity to explain why my politics are the way they are. Like many Canadians, I was inspired by the late Jack Layton, former NDP leader, believing that a better Canada was…
This article was written by Liam Devitt Pierre Trudeau famously said: “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” He said this in 1967, then Justice Minister in the government of Lester B. Pearson. Trudeau was about to introduce an omnibus bill that would bring about sweeping reforms to the Criminal Code of Canada, one of which was the decriminalization of homosexual sex in private spaces. These reforms would be passed in 1969. However, historians and other scholars of the LGBTQ+ community in Canada disagree that Trudeau’s reforms actually decriminalized homosexuality. Some scholars, like Tom Hooper, argue that Trudeau’s reforms recriminalized homosexuality, provoking police to persecute…
This article was written by Liam Devitt We’ve all been hypocrites at least once or twice in our lives. Usually this looks like chastising your boyfriend for leaving fast food trash in his car when your back seat is a graveyard for many a Crunchwrap Supreme. But the Canadian Forces are faced with a hypocrisy of a heavier nature. The Twitter account for the Canadian Forces in the United States (@CAFinUS) tweeted this image on Sunday October 4th of a Canadian serviceman kissing another man with the hashtag #ProudBoys, in ostensible protest of the white supremacist group of that name. All the while, the Canadian Forces have refused to take…
