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You Can’t Say That Anymore

How Speech Codes Are Killing Male Friendships By the Editors of Canโ€™t Be Censored TORONTO โ€“ 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 Canโ€™t Be Censored TORONTO โ€“ 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 โ€” fast. […]

What Happened to the Centre

Why Everything Feels So Extreme By the Editors of Canโ€™t Be Censored TORONTO โ€“ June 26, 2025 Scroll through your feed. Flip on the news. Try talking politics at a dinner party. It doesnโ€™t take long to notice something: everything feels polarized. Left or right. Good or evil. Youโ€™re either on the โ€œright side of […]

The Revolt

Will Be Streamed: How YouTube Creators Crushed Corporate Media TORONTO โ€” June 26, 2025 The media class is losing its grip โ€” and the revolution isnโ€™t televised. Itโ€™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

Whatโ€™s Actually Killing Ambition By the Editors of Canโ€™t Be Censored TORONTO โ€“ June 26, 2025 Somethingโ€™s off โ€” and most guys know it. Theyโ€™re not broken. Theyโ€™re not lazy. But more and more, theyโ€™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

Itโ€™s Time to Gut and Rebuild It By Travis Dhanraj Growing up in Calgary, I admired many of the same things my peers didโ€”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 Isnโ€™t Toxic

Itโ€™s Under Siege By the Editors of Canโ€™t Be Censored TORONTO โ€“ 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 โ€” 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 Canโ€™t Be Censored TORONTO โ€“ 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? Torontoโ€™s Spending Habits Face Fresh Scrutiny By the Editors of Canโ€™t Be Censored TORONTO, June 26, 2025 โ€” 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 […]