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This week, a Canadian conservative news outlet, True North, reported on an essay written by the daughter of Canada’s new prime minister for Yale University’s feminist magazine. The woman, Sophia Carney, who is now going by Sasha, is 24 years old, graduated from Yale two years ago, and stylizes herself as an activist and writer.

Yet Canada’s journalists are up in arms over True North’s revelations. They are refusing to report True North’s findings and are slamming those who even speak of them.

Why might that be? Why, of course, it’s because True North’s reporting, which discusses Sasha Carney’s (public) transgender identity, touches upon the topic of child “gender transitions.”

In the essay, Sasha Carney discusses how she adopted a transgender identity in high school and relates that she visited the U.K.’s Tavistock clinic for therapy. She seems to indicate, however, that she did not receive Tavistock’s infamous “gender-affirming” medical interventions, such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Sasha Carney wrote, “I quietly stopped wearing underwire bras, and wore baggier clothes, and I felt a fierce surge of jealousy every time I walked into the Tavistock for therapy and saw patients turn left, towards the medical spaces I didn’t feel ‘trans enough’ to enter.”

Seems relevant, right? As a child, the daughter of Canada’s prime minister received therapy likely related to her transgender identity at the very medical facility that has since had its gender clinic shut down for the danger it poses to patients. We should know if Prime Minister Mark Carney — who is anticipated to call a snap election to take place on April 28 — supports or opposes transgender medical treatments for children, and how he handled the topic when it arose in his own family. As of now, Carney has not clarified where he stands on such treatments, even as they remain under intense scrutiny worldwide. Currently, Canada continues to cover the costs of “gender-affirming” medical treatments for children, including testosterone for girls and estrogen for boys. (RELATED: Canada Has a New Globalist Prime Minister (For Now))

Even those who think a girl who wants to be a boy should be pumped up with testosterone should want this information reported. After all, it seems Sasha Carney didn’t feel fully affirmed in her identity. She wrote in her essay, “My teenage years existed in close proximity to this TERF-driven scrutiny, which was fixated on identifying how ‘authentically trans’ people like me really were.” Maybe Mark Carney chose not to fully affirm her childhood “transgender nonbinary” identity.

Yet the response of Canada’s journalists has been to howl and scream and to demand fellow journalists stop even mentioning this.

Listen, just listen to what Canadian journalist John Ivison said when True North’s founder, Candice Malcolm, posted the story on her X account.

“You should take this down, Candice,” Ivison said.

That is the sound of the censorship. John Ivison — with an air of coolness, smugness, and dismissiveness — just told a fellow journalist to shut up.

To make matters worse, John Ivison is the Ottawa bureau chief for Canada’s National Post. In other words, he is a journalist in a position of significant power in Canada’s media.

In a comment on his X post, Ivison took things further, saying, “This is not what we do in Canada.”

In other words, in Canada, it’s apparently the accepted opinion that liberal politicians should be shielded from reporting that even touches on their personal lives. That evidently extends to the point that the online feminist magazine at Yale University is private information. And to the point that the writings of a 24-year-old political activist (that are live on the internet) must be hidden from public view.

But John Ivison is not alone in believing himself entitled to tell True North’s journalists to shut up.

The National Post’s Chris Selley wrote on Tuesday to lampoon the publication of True North’s story and to use it to smear all conservative publications in Canada as having low journalistic ethics. He said, “[Conservative Leader Pierre] Poilievre has been musing about extending financial incentives to conservative outlets … On Monday one of those [conservative] outlets reported a story about Mark Carney’s eldest child’s medical history in Britain. It didn’t even attempt to explain why it would be of any relevance to Canadian voters. It didn’t need to. It was about gender transition, and a chunk of the Conservative base is absolutely obsessed with that issue, and so there it was.” (RELATED: Meet Canada’s ‘MAGA’ Prime Minister Candidate: Pierre Poilievre)

Perhaps more insidious is that apart from the aforementioned National Post column’s vague mention of the story for the sake of criticizing it, no mainstream Canadian publications have reported on Sasha Carney’s writings about her experience with the Tavistock clinic following the onset of her childhood transgender identity. In other words, Canada’s liberal journalists have acted as one to silence a story they think will make their preferred politician and ideology look bad — in the midst of an election, no less.

Canada’s liberal journalists aren’t the only ones who want conservative journalists to be censored in Canada.

Canadian Member of Parliament Kevin Vuong posted on X to portray the reporting about Sasha Carney’s Tavistock clinic essay as “attacks”:

I’m seeing attacks on PM Carney’s daughter, and I want to implore, as someone whose family has been indiscriminately targeted:

In 🇨🇦, members of our family are off limits — leave them out of it.

Attack the public office holder, attack our policies, but leave our families alone.

— Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 (@KevinVuongMP) March 17, 2025

Canada has a real problem with censorship. And that problem goes all the way to the top.

Earlier this week, Mark Carney pilloried reporters who dared to question him on his finances. At a press conference on Monday, when Stephanie Levitz, a reporter at the Globe and Mail, questioned the ultra-wealthy Carney on when he will disclose his finances, Carney said, “What possible conflict would [I] have, Stephanie?” Then, when journalist Rosemary Barton of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation further pressed him on whether he could have any conflicts of interest with his assets, Carney responded, “Look inside yourself, Rosemary. I mean you start from a prior of conflict and ill will.”

This is a country that needs a serious reassessment of the role of the press.

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