You Can’t Say That Anymore
How Speech Codes Are Killing Male Friendships By the Editors of Can’t Be Censored TORONTO – June 26, 2025 In locker rooms, group chats, offices, and campus hangouts across the country, an old ritual is quietly dying: the way men talk to each other. For generations, male friendship thrived on a mix of banter, dark […]
Who gets platformed ?
From Clickbait to Curiosity: Why Audiences Are Abandoning Legacy News in Record Numbers By the Editors of Can’t Be Censored TORONTO – June 26, 2025 A new wave of data released this month by the Reuters Institute confirms what many in the media world already suspected: traditional news outlets are losing their grip — fast. […]
What Happened to the Centre
Why Everything Feels So Extreme By the Editors of Can’t Be Censored TORONTO – June 26, 2025 Scroll through your feed. Flip on the news. Try talking politics at a dinner party. It doesn’t take long to notice something: everything feels polarized. Left or right. Good or evil. You’re either on the “right side of […]
The Revolt
Will Be Streamed: How YouTube Creators Crushed Corporate Media TORONTO — June 26, 2025 The media class is losing its grip — and the revolution isn’t televised. It’s streamed. Across Canada and beyond, audiences are turning away from establishment networks and flocking to independent voices. The shift is seismic. Podcasts, YouTube channels, and Substack newsletters […]
Porn, Phones, and Passivity
What’s Actually Killing Ambition By the Editors of Can’t Be Censored TORONTO – June 26, 2025 Something’s off — and most guys know it. They’re not broken. They’re not lazy. But more and more, they’re stuck in neutral. Ambition is down. Risk-taking is down. Testosterone is down. Across Canada and much of the West, men […]
The CBC Has Lost Its Way
It’s Time to Gut and Rebuild It By Travis Dhanraj Growing up in Calgary, I admired many of the same things my peers did—hockey heroes, national icons, and big dreams. But while others imagined themselves lifting the Stanley Cup or soaring through the skies in fighter jets, I found myself drawn to something else entirely: […]
Masculinity Isn’t Toxic
It’s Under Siege By the Editors of Can’t Be Censored TORONTO – June 26, 2025 If you listen to pop culture, school boards, or HR departments long enough, you might think masculinity itself is a problem to be solved — a character flaw that needs correcting. But step outside the curated talking points and a […]
Is Dissent Being Rebranded
Is Dissent Being Rebranded as Dangerous? By the Editors of Can’t Be Censored TORONTO – June 26, 2025 Across Canada and much of the Western world, the role of public protest is undergoing a subtle but significant transformation. Once viewed as a hallmark of healthy democratic society, dissent is increasingly being portrayed as a destabilizing […]
$30K for a Bench?
$30K for a Bench? Toronto’s Spending Habits Face Fresh Scrutiny By the Editors of Can’t Be Censored TORONTO, June 26, 2025 — A rainbow-painted bench in a Toronto park is drawing more attention for its cost than its message. Recently installed as part of a city-run inclusion initiative, the bench came with a price tag […]
