Worst National Post Columnist

There's really no wrong answer out of those four.

The injustice!:

"Now, he has approved [the Kinder Morgan pipeline]. But apparently that’s it. We did not see a whole cabinet behind him when he did. We did not see a group of oil workers, pipe-fitters, union men, carpenters, engineers and technicians there, either, as a kind of counterpoint to the Paris show, for example, to demonstrate how great the constituency was for a new pipeline, and how many there are in industry and the trades, and all supporting activities, who would so much benefit from its construction. No special photographer was retained at substantial cost to document every nuance of the announcement for history (and immediate tweeting)."

Robson stepping up his game: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/john-robson-the-left-may-not-trust-big-government-but-it-sure-loves-wielding-its-power

"Vivienne Westwood [who actually was a Tory for a while but nm] and 'Hollywood' said some stuff about government so the political left are hypocrites because the left. Also some stuff about weirdos and Trump and a lot about how I feel but self-absorption is bad and stuff."

really starting to think of the postmedia network as breitbart north. if one of the more wing-nutty conservatives wins the leadership i expect them to stand four-square behind them.

Oh, totally plausible.

I wasn't sure if this belonged here or in the alt-right thread: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/conrad-black-the-enlightenment-has-mutated-and-this-threatens-our-civilization

Setting everything else aside for the moment, I really relished that Conrad Black was expressing concern about "inflammation of the human ego".

This is jaw-dropping, even for me: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/an-opportunity-to-make-their-displeasure-known-government-pulls-funding-of-pronoun-professor

How entitled does someone need to be to assume that when he doesn't receive a prestigious $400K grant, it's because of a plot against him? How manipulative or gullible is Blatchford? Is the comments section high? etc.

In fact, he’s indisputably a great communicator: His education videos have been viewed by eight million people, and he’s popular on Twitter.

I've listened to some of this guy's videos and he is not a great communicator.

Anyway, this is a research grant. What does Twitter have to do with it?

Yeah, that's a special one. I'm p sure SSHRC committees review applications blind anyway?

(Not that it even really matters at this point, given that Peterson has no evidence to support his suspicion.)

Has ILX dissected Jordan Peterson yet? I think he became a public figure just last year, and he's completely ridiculous.

Yes, this asshole is getting a lot more press than he deserves.

My understanding of how this all got started goes something like this:

Transgender colleague: I prefer to be called by (x) pronoun.
Peterson: I can't possibly be expected to remember all of these ridiculous gender categories.
Transgender colleague: You don't. Just please refer to me by (x).
Peterson: Hate crime! The left are the real fascists!

This is something else: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-whatever-else-kavanaugh-was-right-that-due-process-is-down-the-drain

Always sucks when this shit seeps north

If it is not to minimize the gravity of committing sexual assault, what is even the point of recounting the personal experience she does in the way that she does here? How does it bear on her thesis concerning Kavanaugh?

It’s not the first time she’s done that. Might have been during the Ghomeshi thing, the whole “It didn’t happen to me that way in my life, hence they are either lying or it’s their own fault” thing. She seems like a deeply terrible person.

Biggest 'story' on the front page. It's like they've abandoned any pretence of being a serious journalistic institution: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-its-ideology-vs-science-in-psychologys-war-on-boys-and-men

oh i read that garbage

"if men are so toxic, why do fatherless kids have so many problems huh? there are literally no other possible explanations for this phenomenon!"

which is to say: I don't even have a clear opinion on the APA document, and Peterson might even have a point or two despite all the conspiratorial hoo-ha, but I don't recall the Globe or the Star highlighting charged opinion pieces as top-of-the-front-page stories. 2xp

"Why is this boy angry?" indeed

he needs an editor so bad, I don't think anyone could get through that whole piece

don't know that putting tendentious opinion columns on the front page is in fact a new thing for the national post however

ding dong

Deadest National Post columnist

(Rex Murphy just looks the deadest)

national post has the temerity to call her a "tenacious voice for victims" as if the Rehtaeh Parsons column isn't still hosted on their website

I think my own antipathy towards her was in place before any of the things itemized here--in the '90s, at the Sun.

http://www.readpassage.com/christie-blatchford-doesnt-deserve-her-eulogy/

(One chance to read this before they want you to subscribe.)

Yeah, there was an exceptional element of cruelty that really did make her the worst.

The answer is still Barbara Kay:

Here is what HBG should have done: First, publicly wished Ronan Farrow a polite but firm farewell. Then sought out the protest ringleaders amongst its staffers and summarily fired them. Finally, sent all employees a memo notifying them that institutional loyalty and deference to executive decisions are standpoints of HBG culture. Staffers who chose not to resign should have been expected to respect these principles in the future or face consequences. Plum jobs in publishing are not a dime a dozen. These strategies would have worked like a charm.