The life of a Gumshoe
An update from the trenches of the culture war
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I can hardly believe it! Since my last update on February 9th, I have published 47 articles on Woke Watch Canada (I wrote 17 of them). With the exception of one article I co-wrote with Brian Giesbrecht that was published in the Dorchester Review, and my weekly radio segment on Monday’s with Richard Syrett on 960 Sauga AM, and an appearance on David Todor’s Beyond The Rift podcast, the writing for Woke Watch Canada (and curating the content of other contributors), took up the majority of my time. It continues to do so.
But I haven’t forgotten about subscribers of The Turn, and I have noticed that quite a few new people have joined us. Welcome to all the new subscribers!
Alright, let’s consider today’s post to be an update on what has occurred since my last post on February 9th. That post on the 9th offered an update of the previous period. It appears we have a pattern developing. One I plan to break at some point by posting more original articles and essays. More stuff like this one, or this one, But also stuff like this one and this one.
Woke Watch Canada Update
In the last update, I soft-launched the Woke Watch Canada - Canadian School Board Investigation Initiative. This initiative is about delivering investigative research and journalistic coverage and analysis of the situation unfolding in an alarming number of dysfunctional school boards across the country. In response to this dysfunction, parent groups are rising up. We are researching the manifestation of the social justice phenomenon in schools and the reaction to it, not only to cover and examine it in the way expected from good journalism, but also so we can effectively organize with other parents, teachers and concerned citizens and be part of the solution.
The fundraising we have done for this Canadian school board investigation effort has been a success. Because so many readers of Woke Watch Canada have generously upgraded their subscriptions to the paid version, or made donations to the DonorBox set up for the Canadian School Board Investigation Initiative, we have been able to publish quality writing almost every day - with a large chunk of that writing focused on exposing the dysfunctional nonsense occurring in Canadian education, especially with woke school boards.
Here is a button that leads to the Woke Watch Canada DonorBox - there are several options for donations with amounts starting at $10 :
Paid subscriptions for The Turn also go a long way in helping to fund my independent research and journalistic efforts, so please consider upgrading if you can.
If you are not convinced that Woke Watch Canada is worth supporting, please read my article from last Saturday, What the hell is the point of Woke Watch Canada? -This post gives a bit more details on what we call citizen-funded gumshoe journalism.
Here is a definition in case you are not familiar with it:
Gumshoe is a slang term for a working-class private detective or police detective. In the late 1800s the soles of shoes were made with gum rubber, which made it easier to walk around quietly. The term was popularized in early detective fiction.
Besides the school board and education pieces, Shannon Douglas has been delivering a weekly Gender Wars report every Friday. He is up to Volume 8 now.
Another noteworthy WWC piece was a new essay written by Mr. M for our Great Illiberal Subversion series, called The Utopian Whimsy: Left Politics of Nowhere in the Here and Now.
The Dorchester Review
I was very happy that the piece Brian Giesbrecht and I wrote on “residential school denialism” was published in the Dorchester Review. This was my only piece of published writing on indigenous issues since my last update. As mentioned above, the Canadian School Board Initiative has taken up most of my time, but I hope to be able to dedicate a little more effort to writing about the many very important indigenous issues I have commented on in past articles.
Here is a link to our article in the Dorchester Review - The Derogatory Use of ‘Denialist’ – The Dorchester Review
Beyond the Rift podcast with David Todor
I had an interesting talk with David Todor on his Beyond The Rift podcast. David is a father with children in the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) who is concerned about policies around gender identity in schools. Checkout David’s Youtube channel for video of him delegating convincingly and forcefully to the highly woke WRDSB.
Here is our podcast conversation:
The Richard Syrett Show
Every Monday at 4:50 pm Richard and I discuss books in a segment he calls the Anti-Woke Book Club, for The Richard Syrett Show on Sauga 960 AM. Last week we talked about John McWhorter’s Woke Racism: How A New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. The producers created a clip of my segment in the March 20th episode - March 20 - James Pew.mp3 - Google Drive
The March 6th appearance, the segment begins at 32:16 - ▶ The Richard Syrett Show - Mar 6, 2023 - Pastor Protesting Drag Queen Storytime, & How No Indigenous Child was Ever 'Forced' to go to School | Spreaker - In this episode of the Anti-Woke Book Club we discuss Gad Saad’s book The Parasitic Mind: How infectious ideas are killing common sense
The February 27th appearance, the segment begins at 21:00 ▶ The Richard Syrett Show - Feb 27, 2023 - China's Interference on Canadian Election, MP Denounced by Poilievre, & John Tory's Reckless Record | Spreaker - In this episode we discuss Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
The February 13th appearance, the segment begins at 31:50 ▶ The Richard Syrett Show - Feb 13, 2023 - John Tory's Resignation, & Blowing Up Nord Stream Pipeline an Act of War Against Germany and Russia | Spreaker - In this episode we discuss Frances Widdowson & Albert Howard’s Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation AND an edited volume by Rodney A. Clifton and Mark DeWolf From Truth Comes Reconciliation
My appearances with Richard on February 6th and January 30th were included in the last update for The Turn.
I’ll leave it at that for today. Thank you for reading.
