A Further Inquiry

11/19/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/afurtherinquiry/p/the-austrian-question-navigating?r=eytl7&utm_medium=ios

PART 1/2

11/12/2025

“The cost of forgetting is not abstract. It is visible in generations of citizens who recite slogans without understanding, in young people disconnected from the struggles and achievements of those who came before, and in a creeping sense that Canada is not a shared project but a random collection of individuals sharing geography.”
By Mathew Giagnorio

Poppies, monuments, silence—Remembrance Day asks us to do more than observe. It asks us to remember, protect, and teach.

11/11/2025

“By the time the first convictions were delivered, the pattern was undeniable. From Rochdale and Rotherham to Oxford and Telford, the perpetrators shared near-identical profiles. Case after case, mugshot after mugshot, revealed the same fact: the grooming gangs were overwhelmingly composed of men of Pakistani and Kashmiri origin, nearly all Muslim.”
By Shaaz Mahboob

The truth about Britain’s grooming gangs was buried under fear, politics, and guilt. Now, it demands a reckoning.

11/10/2025

“A nation that knows what it is will defend what it is.
And here is the central contrast:
Québec knows its culture.
Canada no longer knows if it has one.”
By Mathew Giagnorio

Québec is rewriting the terms of the federation. Ottawa is pretending not to notice.

10/18/2025

“Meanwhile, the Jewish people, especially in Britain, have become a test case for the West’s moral coherence. If antisemitic hate marches can parade freely under the guise of “solidarity,” while Jews are expected to stay silent or even participate, then something fundamental in our civic conscience has eroded.”
By Shaaz Mahboob

Editor’s Note:

10/12/2025

“Diversity is a strength only when nested within unity. Without a shared Canadian core, multiculturalism becomes a loose confederation of tribes—each competing for power, resentful of the others, and none loyal to the whole.”
By Mathew Giagnorio

Pluralism without cohesion is just fragmentation.

10/05/2025

“This was not an accident. It was not an aberration. It was the predictable outcome of a system that has turned “rehabilitation” into ritual, while families live with the consequences.”
By Mathew Giagnorio

There comes a moment when the myths of safety collapse.

10/01/2025

“The protest wasn’t just about anger. It was about love, too. Love for children. Love for justice. Love for one another. Strangers hugged and comforted each other. People cried together and stood together. For the first time, many of us felt we weren’t alone in our pain.”
By Alicia Googoo

I remember the day I read the shocking news.

10/01/2025

I woke up this morning, on Truth and Reconciliation Day, and asked myself the same question I’ve been asking for years: what does this day actually mean?

10/01/2025

“We don’t need to inflate the story to make it morally urgent. Exaggeration and myth-making do not serve reconciliation—they sabotage it. They empower denialists, sow division, and make it harder for Canadians to face the reality that does exist.”
By Mathew Giagnorio

I woke up this morning, on Truth and Reconciliation Day, and asked myself the same question I’ve been asking for years: what does this day actually mean?

07/30/2025

https://afurtherinquiry.substack.com/p/the-foundation-of-the-british-columbia

How does Langley’s history—from Sir James Douglas to Trinity Western University—reveal a deeper conflict between colonial legacies, Evangelical influence, and contemporary human rights in BC?

07/30/2025

https://afurtherinquiry.substack.com/p/mark-carneys-family-legacy-catholic

Who was Robert Carney, the father of Mark Carney, and what role did he play in Indigenous education in Fort Smith?