This column is written for all those who feel oppressed by political correctness in Canada. It is prompted by my wife Barbara giving me the magazines sent to alumni of University College at the University of Toronto and by the University of Toronto itself, each quarter. I receive a sprinkling of information from the universities where I graduated and from some that kindly gave me honorary degrees, but I have never seen anything like this.
There was a tribute to my dear friend of more than 40 years, Supreme Court Justice Rosie Abella, winner of an award named after another old friend, the late Rose Wolfe , both delightful women. Rosie referred to her belief as an under-graduate in “the perfectibility of the human condition, in progressive change, in excellence, in the symbiosis of reason and equity.
The next section was a series of alumni who had been battling various types of oppression. One more time: an apologist for the recent illegal native obstruction of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline explained that, “Canada is actually not Canada because the original nations on this land never gave up the right to govern themselves.” What is required is “a fundamental rethink and reimagining of what Canada is as a country.
The drenchingly predictable article on “fake news” referred to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election although the authors of the interference remain unknown and the extent of it was insignificant. Naturally there is not a word about the three-year malicious fiction that the current president had colluded with the Russian government to influence the election. The absence of coverage of the greatest constitutional scandal in U.S.
Quaerite_Pacem Conrad Black is fluffing the folk who resent higher education because they chose ignorance over facts and abandoned their education at grade 10. The Post caters to the level of their understanding the reality of the world.
Who gives a flying fu_k what that criminal has to say about anything. Typical of a neocon rag to report his bowel movements.
finoaspeaks Who in the hell cares what Conrad Black has to say about Canada? He ran to England complaining Canada was to Liberal. Some how he ended up in a US prison. Just not Canadian enough to care about.
Convicted felon conman argues against follow norms, rules, & laws, well that is a shocker!
so These universtiites teach leaders or bosses of our country..thats a laugh in itself. Many with no experience except what mom & dad gave them.
ConradMBlack A good essay, as usual, Lord Black. Thank you for sharing this. I also agree with Dr. Peterson: 'Jordan Peterson is right that anything calling itself “studies” is not a real academic subject...'
ConradMBlack Now that is true. I agree with the statement entirely. It also resonates with me when they say if it’s a course that ends with the word “studies” then beware!
ConradMBlack It’s so true. Professors should be investigated for undermining our whole system on daily basis. They produce lunatics who either hate themselves or everyone they perceive as a descendant of some supposed colonialist. PROFESSORS SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED.
ConradMBlack Well tell them to eff the hell off
Corporate America-owned newspapers have become cesspools of right wing propaganda.
You’re wrong or Matt they are cesspools are right we are cesspools for breeding grounds for communism
Now do Prisons you criminal!
Any other convicted frauds you wanna quote for another hot take article? What a rag
Still promoting this column, huh? Not a great look. I mean, we knew Black was a fraudster, friend of trump, but still you stand by him. When does it stop? Epstein lists him in his little black book of crooks and pedophiles. Still on team Conrad, ?
😂 the right love the uneducated.
Supreme Moral compass seeking attention
Stop. Just stop.
Conrad Black 😂
LOL! Conrad Black?!!! 😅 Why don’t we hear from somebody a bit more relevant to contemporary society? Your thoughts Erik Estrada?
Conrad Black is a cesspool of negative, fear based, ideologies.
Convicted felon says what? That the Post continues to publish the rancid writings of criminal Conrad shows it has made itself a festering cesspool.
I get it you sadly have to give this fraudster an undeserving platform. But good grief, National Post read the bloody room.
I’m not sure Conrad Black is the voice of our times.
Yes indeed- academic “studies” programs are a euphemism for “indoctrination” and have no place in taxpayer- subsidized schools. Besides, we need electricians, not “Gender studies” majors.
ConradMBlack would certainly know a cesspool if he saw one, just look at the papers he ran.
And yet even were that true they wouldn't be as awful as Lord Fraudharbour
Felons advising us on how to educate ourselves. Seems legit
Does anyone out there actually care what Conrad Black says or even thinks? Conrad, please crawl back under a rock.
Everytime I hear the name Conrad Black I think of this guy
Why doesn't Canada hater Conrad Black stay in Britain. We have enough issues with the virus in Canada. Take your Conservative 'clap trap' over to the UK and stay there. The Conservatives are polling at 20%. That should tell Black they are not wanted. Sir Black indeed!
Conrad Black is a cesspool and the National Post is a cesspool of right wing propoganda.
Convicted Felon
I'm guessing he's paying you a lot to print his drivel. Convicted criminals do get desperate for attention.
Why are you giving a platform to this baseless conspiracy theory?
He is 100% right I don’t agree with much of what he says but this is dead on
Yeah the USA coming apart at the seams and convicted felon says boohoohoo we racists can't insult who we want anymore. FU
Then just ignore the alumni mail like everybody else. Geez.
Ok then don't go to university, stay poor stupid and angry
That National Post has become a cesspool for non Canadian ex cons.
Me: Newspapers have become cesspools of partisan nonsense
National Post you are a rag. There’s seriously no other voices you can elevate from the right except this criminal? Your laziness is disgusting
Ok boomer
Jordan Peterson what?
Read the room dude, not today.
The truth is refreshing.
Conrad Black is a cesspool. Oh and a criminal. You’d do well to dissociate your publication from him although I suspect he just reflects your agenda.
lots of teeth. Thanks
I am sorry but a convicted felon says what?
Black is a terrible person
In other words, not being a foul-mouthed waste of oxygen with zero morals is a bad thing (according to the convict).
This is exactly why I loath the NP & everytime they call to see if I want a subscription I give em an earful of my feelings towards them...they still call ugh.
Any University who gave Conrad Black an honorary degree can take it back right? Should have done that when he gave up citizenship and screwed Canada. He's a frigging crook and doing the Orange Terrorist's bidding? Trying to break Canada? cdnpoli
LOL. Sir Conrad would prefer everyone to have a Betsy DeVos MAGA Republican education so they keep voting in crooks against their best interests. Education for dumbf***s.
This paper is a cesspool
Who gives a flying fuck what Conrad Black thinks!
There you go again with your goofy articles by your goofy writers.
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Thank you Captain Obvious...
What is political correctness? It’s cover for people to treat others disparagingly under the guise of free speech Think of just 1 *politically correct* idea that isn’t essentially just being unkind or mean. There isn’t one. Why? Because political correctness isn’t a thing
Who the f still reads the opinion of this old criminal fart? National Post investing money to elevate the voice of this old corrupt rich white guy tells you everything about the people who run the National Post.
Conrad Black, Crook. cdnpoli
No one cares 💁
giving convicted criminals a platform for their self serving opinions 😖
Conrad who? That guy who went to prison? You can’t still be promoting that guy’s views. He’s an ass.
Why do you give this criminal and out of touch elitist a platform? He is not relevant. And since you are covering him perhaps that means that you as a source of ‘news’ is irrelevant as well
Conrad who? The felon? hardpass
Correction: Universities have become cesspools of political appointees.
Conrad Black is a cess pool of everything that is wrong with this rotten and corrupt world. He apparently doesn't even know what political correctness means. Why do we have to keep hearing from this corrupt, greedy criminal anyway? Can't he stay the hell out of our business?
Who?!?
National Post is a cesspool of senile corruption
Can we muzzle this criminal? No one GAF what Conrad Black has to say. 🙄
Canada’s Fox News
Who cares what an outdated old criminal has to say.
2005 called. It wants its hot take back.
Shut up conrad. No wants to hear your hate.
Just go away
Felon sez what?
Read the room?
Excuse me, that's Convicted Felon Conrad Black
News flash: nobody cares what Conrad Black thinks.
Its called education, Connie
1) Eerily timed article by amidst protests 2) Why amplify the voice of ConradMBlack on values of Canadian institutions when he's not even a citizen here?
STOP GIVING THIS CRIMINAL A FORUM
Why do you still publish this guy?
Bad timing. This comes off pretty racist with what’s going on in the US
Why is someone who gave up his Canadian citizenship and a convicted felon given a platform to spew his crap?
Unlike prisons eh Conrad?
Gee conradblack it sounds like you like the uneducated as does your buddy Donald. Go back to the U.S. They may ignore that you are a convicted felon but we don’t I just realized your first name is CON. So appropriate. ‘Con’victed felon & ‘Con’servative
You guys still trotting out Conrad Black? 😴
This is from someone, Conrad Black, who writes for a cesspool, the .
Well if anyone would know about cesspools, you would Mr. Desperately Seeking Attention....
What? Unca Conrad doesn't like the idea that his political ideas aren't being accepted by today's youth? Like Rex Murphy, the old fraud needs to Sit Down and start listening.
Conrad thinks that MaraLardo is a cool place to hang out. One can learn so much from the various Kremlin figures lurking there. Craven libertarian criminals want to rid the world of people who would catch and imprison them. Critical thinkers: cdnpoli SadSackBlack LiberalArtsU
Universities have been like this for decades. It's nothing new. What's different now is that people outside the hallowed halls of higher learning are a lot more skeptical of tall foreheads therein, and they now have a voice to let their displeasure be known.
You want & need subscribers to survive. So, what do you do? Contract a convicted felon, who renounced Canadian citizenship to get a foreign title, to step up to his right-wing pulpit & deliver hackneyed conservative sermons to Canadians?
Classes will be online for the foreseeable future -once again, Blackie Von Prisonterm's hot take fails to read the room. Lifetime guest columnist status is journalism's version of the commissioned officer.
He’s just grumpy because he’s old, impotent and irrelevant - still. Go back to bed old man.
They arent even open right now, you concerned about politically correct zoom calls?
peterdiane01 Not only are they cesspools for political leftists ideology, the Chinese government is a major financial supporter of all top universities. They are paying to perpetuate ideology that destroys western society & warps history. It’s a long game the Cabal has been playing 4 decades
Conrad Felon-ious Black. The great rich elitist, who was too obtuse to know where the security cameras in his own office building were.
Good to see the Lord tackling the really important issues of the day
LOL convicted felon says what?
Conrad Black is an ignorant criminal. NP publishing his trash makes them no better.
Is that like another word for ethics, morality etc? Or maybe thoughtfulness? Does he think we need to increase arseholeness? Sounds ethically incompetent.
Convicted felon.
So...Conrad wants to be able to say what exactly that universities would disallow?
Your a cesspool Conrad Black!
There is no fool like an old fool.
You were once a national newspaper. Not sure what you’ve become. Sad
Which is still more rewarding to society than anything you could offer conrad.
Isnt Conrad black a convicted criminal? Why does the NP give him so many opinion columns?
Convicted fraudster Conrad Black? You got it the other way around. Postmedia is the cesspool, Connie.
Says the convicted felon who has been pardoned by one of the most incompetent and corrupt presidents in American history. Sit down Conrad, no decent human gives a shit what you think. cdnpoli
Cesspools of knowledge and truth, two things Conrad hates.
He’s a pompous windbag, but this is an excellent article.
The National Post is a cesspool of ultra far-right plutocratic propaganda for the capitalist class.
What a treasure to have someone with lived experience of being an inmate at Sumter County lockup serving sentences of fraud and obstruction of justice here to enlighten us plebians on what kind of ethics truly resemble a cesspool.
“Fortified by this bracing sorbet of monochromatic lamentation on the evils of most Canadians and of the country that pays for all this, I prorupted on into the University Magazine.”
How do you publish a convicted Republican felon?
Lol: “Jordan Peterson is right that anything calling itself “studies” is not a real academic subject.”
Total filth from jealous people who had their jobs given to them by their buddies.
Damn this newspaper can't go under fast enough.
Mr. Irrelevant
Written by a thief who obstructed court orders and was put in Jail is complaining about society now...
So much whining from so called victims & entitlement. Hasn’t anyone heard of just being the best you can be? You earn respect. Called work
Next time, why not just provide Conrad Black with a notebook where he can masturbate his intellect in private. And how much does the man drink?
Which cesspool of entitlement are you speaking from today Connie?
Looks like you folks could use some good columnists. Enough of this guy already.
Who cares about the opinions of a foreign felon?
We’re you able to attend a school in which you weren’t expelled, like at UCC & Trinity? Or dropped out of, like Osgoode?
Love this op-ed from 2014!
Have you ever wondered how the ELITES, The RULING CLASS... The 1% stays in Power? Learn from America's renowned Tim Wise PhD, on how they use CLASS Warfare, Racism, Gender and Religion to keep us divided while they rule and get richer with impunity.
All this tells me is they are doing something right. Is there anyone anywhere who cars what Conrad black thinks?
convicted felon who renounced his citizenship says what?
It takes a cesspool to know a cesspool. Yes we're looking right at the
WHY are we still hearing from Black? Oh. Right. It’s the NP.
The Post has become a cesspool of Conrad Blacks.
Conrad calls it as it is. Good job.
The guy was in Epstein's black book and you're still giving him a platform?
Good piece. One hopes that the harsh pandemic will provide us with an opportunity to return to the important. ConradMBlack cdnpoli
Foreign Felon supports Systemic Racism
This foreign felon hasn't been in university for almost sixty years. How on earth would he know anything about it?
Universités became be 1-the end of Science. 2- political institution( correctness) 3 - belive not discover(social, political,economical dependency) 4 -Useless direction
The Nationalist Post is just a cesspool.
Pompous ass, always was and always will be.
Prisons are cesspools too, aren’t they, Conrad?
Not read. Conrad is a loser.
Felon
Felon says: blah blah CONradblack cdnpoli
Ex con has words.
Oh, this is a news story, thought it was a joke when I read he was trending. Have you noticed major crap is going on?
Well, he is an expert on cesspools after all RS
Thx for this! Another reason I don't read your paper more than twice a year.
Why,why,why do you continue to publish this hack?
Ah yes. The world is on fire and the reason is -- people who ask you to use their correct pronoun and adapt your language to do less harm. On point as usual, NaPo.
That convicted old prune has always a so constructive opinion. 👉👌
he's the epitome of a cesspool......
Stupid man
National Post has become cesspool of disingenuous hypocritical entitlement.
Convicted felon says what?
You are a crook
Conrad Black is a cesspool.
Postmedia is a cesspool of republican Trumpster propaganda and needs to be disbanded as illegal foreign owned media. They are not for Canada. Look to the south, that is what they want for Canada.
sorry, I am having a hard time seeing past this poll
Why isn't this garbage in jail?
Same in the USA. Funding is being cut to universities that suppress free speech. thegreatawakening
NationalPost keeps giving convicted criminal ConradBlack a pulpit. Once again proves its admiration for the NationalEnquirer. Buh bye
Said it Before , will say it again 🙄 Conrad Black Has Always sucked at Opinions 🙄😐😐😐👎🤡. Google him if you don’t know . He’s Nothing but a 🤡. Why do you keep printing him National Post !? , do you hate Canada and want to see us fight too ?!!🤔😞. Get that shit outta here !
Please tell him to shush and sit down. No one wants to listen to this criminal.
“We are witnessing, on campuses and throughout society, the displacement of learning -a culture of reason and persuasion-by politics of a peculiar and unwholesome kind, identity politics.” George F. Will. He hit it dead on.
Great column, as usual. Funny how the 'woke' generation appears to be completely unconscious.
Been following the leadership styles of Clarence Louie and Ellis Ross and how they’re building the economic and social success of their communities. Neither use language “settler, colonialism, white man” - considered racist and unproductive to reconciliation.
This has been known for a long, long time.
Why do you continue to employ Criminal Conrad, whose only allegiance now is to racist and sexual predator Donald Trump.?
....just as your newspaper has become a cesspool of partisan bigotry and ignorance. How ironic.
The weird bullshit that keeps right wing boomers awake at night 🤣😂🤣
Toronto_TODAY5 Don't care for Conrad but it's the truth
Leave it to the educated to try to right societal wrongs.
Thank you, Inmate 18330-424.
Why should we listen to a convicted Felon. Your National Post is not fit to line my birdcage.
Convict Black is an authority on cesspools.
National Post is pro convicted felon and anti education. Got it.
'Political Correctness' is neo-con code for 'we can't say openly bigoted shit without dealing with the consequences of our own bad actions'. Anyone who says in earnest it is telling you exactly who they are -- and that is a person who has no problem saying racist shit in private
ConradBlacksAnus
Concordia university is just as described..
Weird how we let this foreign trump lover in Canada. There is no benefit to having this felon remain here. deportconrad
Why give that man a voice at all?
ATory01 Oof, this really has it all: indigenous erasure, white supremacy, climate denialism ...
Amen...also time to stop the archaic concept of tenure. There are far too many useless profs and bureaucrats sucking in the public teat, spewing their nonsense with total impunity. They could not get employment anywhere else.
National Post. No more Conrad Black. its a bad look.
The world is becoming a cesspool of political correctness and cancel culture. The whole planet has gone nuts with nutty-ness. It's horrible.
'The river still cleanses this area and its ancient powers continue to flow' ... It's. A. STREAM. What the hell is this nonsense?!?
What do you expect from a guy like Conrad Black who has a history of scamming back to the days of Massey Ferguson. No wonder Donald Trump is a role model.
They are disgusting
The university doesn't fall far from the tree (?) Political correctness was once described as 'knowing how to pick up a turd from the clean end'. Black has a history of building cesspools. The Americans locked him up over one of them.
You are not Canadian get out of this country Lord Scmuck!
RossMcleanSec Time to unlock the grip of liberalism in our schools.
Hes about 7 years too late to the party everyone knows that
But hadn't ConradMBlack become a cesspool of self-indulgent and inane commentaries?
Yup, but it's not new. Most Canadian universities, going back decades, are filled with left-wing professors forcing their left-wing views on their students.
You said it!!!!💕
Understatement!!
Conrad Black: can you please just sit down?
National Post has become cesspools of Contad Black.
Absolutly true. Drivel from the elementary and high school teachers have created this. We are failing our youth and have been for years.
Who cares what this criminal has to say.
Why would anyone listen to that hack?
That’s a mild statement on the systematic crap that masquerades as supposed advanced education in our country today.
The future is bleak. thefutureisbleak
He’s correct
inky_mark Yes, been trying to deprogram daughter since returning.
How does it feel to know you only bought your kid a text book for a brain and a shitty personality? I know, I have met a lot of them.
This coming from a true Canadian.
Convict/Trump lover/Old Angry White man says whaaaat?
Yes .....my daughter can vouch for this -- but wont talk to me about it
Krisster81
Why are you quoting a felon?
I can see why many didn’t like their alumnus being referred to as a cesspool. But the guilt shaming and far left ideology of these universities isn’t conducive to free thinking and innovation.
If Conrad Black hates what they have become, then it must be good!
And they're all voting for JustinTrudeau, so in the end mission accomplished.
Maybe Black is suffering from the onset of dementia
Conrad Black tells it exactly.. !!
“and the obligatory demonization of the residential schools” The only people offended by correcting history on residential schools are old white men with peerage titles. I read your stuff only cause you paid so much for it to be viewed.
True. There is a difference between being sensitive and being bend-over-backwards Politically 'Correct'!
The National Post has become a cesspool of a foreign criminal's screeds.
Does Black still own the NP!? If not, why do you still publish his drivel? Old man who is out of touch and who should really be living south of the border with his cronies.
Stop the clickbate!
National post, I beg you to stop publishing Conrad black. I beg you.
imagine writing about safe spaces and Jordan Peterson in 2020 and expecting anybody to give two shits
Have been for 30 years...
You just noticed?
Didn’t know newspapers still paid by the word...this rant was dead by the second paragraph...
Why is Conrad Black even relevant any longer? Cmon media! Quit getting played!
Seems to be a lot of upset people that don't like to be told the truth.
Well, Milord ConradMBlack I was with you for quite a bit of your editorial, until you threw in that gratuitous Trump paragraph. You’re a regular Mr. Magoo when it comes to that guy.
marissanovetsky CommunistCesspools
They have also been infiltrated by the United Front!
And he’s right
Absolutely
Back in the day, you would hear about discoveries being made in Canadian universities and they had academics who were actually making a difference in the intellectual life of the country. In the last 15 years, not so much. Just self absorbed navel gazing and security seeking.
Not like your days at Laval 😊
I thought he was in prison. Who cares what this disgraced blowhard has to say?
Aggressive social and fiscal conservatism is inconsistent with the societal ambitions of the vast majority of Canadians. If the Conservative Party of Canada ever intends to govern again, they need to ratchet their rhetoric, and their policies, back to where the public is.
Conrad Black, on the other hand, is just a cesspool.
Says the convicted criminal! The national post is a cesspool.
Aged university drop-out and convicted felon has angry words for damn kids who are likely finish undergrad.
Shut up Conrad.
Conrad doesn't like the fact they're churning out liberals.
'Have become...'! Heh!
Didn't he try to sell test papers to his classmates at Upper Canada College some years ago!?
They were rotten cesspools of political correctness 30 years ago. Where have you been? Oh, ya, it doesn't really concern your generation.
SFU
Wow, most comments are attacking the man and ignoring his point. Really? Did you know that Canada ranks in the top 3 in the world for bullying? It takes thought to argue ideas; a knee jerk to attack a speaker. I'm indifferent to C Black, but...
How would he know?! Nobody cares what Privateer Black thinks anymore. Too bad, he use to be someone that we paid attention to .
Your house is a cesspool with a convicted felon who should not be allowed in Canada.
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