Diversity, equity and inclusion policies are “sadly lacking in idea diversity” and are driven by people who believe that racism explains everything, said Mark Milke, founder and president of the Aristotle Foundation on Public Policy.
Milke was talking to John Ivison about a new study of academic hiring practices at Canadian universities undertaken by the Aristotle Foundation.
The study found a near universal use of DEI policies to promote the equality of outcomes in the university system.
As tiny homes arrive in Hamilton, councillors ask why city bought made-in-China units for $35K each
When City of Hamilton staff agreed to buy 40 tiny homes from a Brantford, Ont., company for a new outdoor shelter site last fall, they thought they were supporting a local, Indigenous-owned business that was one of the few capable of delivering on a short timeline.
What they didn’t know was MicroShelters was a new corporation that would go through an American company to order the tiny homes from China, staff said at a general issues committee meeting Wednesday.
“It was a very quick turnaround” to meet deadlines on the project, said Danielle Blake, the city’s manager of housing-focused street outreach.
Majority of Canadians oppose equity hiring — more than in the U.S., new poll finds
A majority of Canadians say that employers should not take cultural or ethnic backgrounds into consideration when hiring, according to new polling.
Fifty-seven per cent of Canadians disagree with the notion that equity should be a part of hiring, according to the poll done by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies.
“The survey results point to some pushback on the issue of minority hiring in Canada and the United States,” said Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, in an email.
Still haven’t heard anything from Poilievre on whether he will repeal Canada’s current anti-White hiring legislation.
h/t Patti Jo
Donald Trump couldn’t be clearer. He intends to abolish the Department of Education. He stated during the election campaign that “one thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, DC, and sending all education … back to the states”.
Some are wondering why he would bother. Created 45 years ago in the dying days of Jimmy Carter’s administration, the Department is one of the smaller Cabinet-level federal agencies. With a mere four and half thousand employees, abolishing it will hardly drain the Washington swamp.
TMU president says diversity targets for medical school were ‘aspirational,’ not a quota
Toronto Metropolitan University used “aspirational” words, but never had any equity quotas for admission to its new medical school, says president Mohamed Lachemi.
Lachemi told the Star on Friday that he wanted to clarify TMU’s expectations of the incoming medical class, after the provincial government and critics raised concerns about the potential for lowering standards.
Gee, he’s named Mohamed so you know you can trust him.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has scored a rare victory against the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) doctrine that has infested Ontario universities. A source in the premier’s office says that at Ford’s request, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) has backed down on a plan to reserve 75 per cent of the places in its new medical school for “equity-deserving” groups.
Affirmative action discrimination and other forms of racial preference are pervasive in Canada’s public institutions. See, for example, Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU) new medical school admissions policy, which reserves 75 per cent of its seats for indigenous, black and other “equity-deserving” groups, who may still be considered for admission in certain circumstances if their undergraduate GPA is below 3.3 — an already low standard for admission.
A recent job posting from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) explicitly states the agency is hiring summer co-op students based on diversity.
CSIS told the Western Standard the DEI policy is in place because the intelligence agency believes it appropriately represents Canada’s population.
Ford demands TMU’s new med school educate qualified students ‘regardless of their race’
Premier Doug Ford is demanding Ontario’s newest medical school educate qualified individuals “regardless of their race or background,” amid backlash over the school’s plan to loosen academic qualifications and screen out prospective students by race or status.
Toronto Metropolitan University’s new medical school in Brampton is expecting more than 5,000 applicants for 94 spots, of which three-quarters will be designated for students who are Black, Indigenous, or from “equity-deserving” groups. The latter include those who identify as LGBTQ, disabled, poor, and “racialized people.” It has also loosened certain common academic requirements.
Canada’s newest medical school will select students not for their ability, but their identity. Great, as if Canada’s healthcare system wasn’t bad enough already.
The school, which opens next fall at Toronto Metropolitan University, will reserve 75 per cent of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other “equity-deserving” groups including 2SLGBTQ+. These students will need an undergraduate GPA of only 3.3 on a 4-point scale, and maybe not even that; for comparison, the University of Toronto medical school’s average accepted GPA is 3.95. Able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats. It’s TMU’s affirmative action school for doctors who can’t get in on their merits. Canada now has full-blown racial and gender discrimination. How did we get here? The Supreme Court of Canada is largely to blame.
WHOA
75% of Toronto University's medical school spots are for BIPOC students
Bobba tea isn't anti Asian, this is. pic.twitter.com/JmdAoZXzf1
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Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues
Equity, not equality, is a constitutionally protected right in Canada, argues a new report published by a Calgary-based think tank.
“Canadians have been sold a bill of goods,” Bruce Pardy, the author of the report and a Queen’s University law professor, told National Post by email. “Many of them think that they have a right to equal treatment under the law. They think that discrimination is illegal. But nothing could be further from the truth. In Canada, discrimination is lawful as long as it is committed against the right groups — and in particular against straight white men.
I wish Poilievre would comment publicly on this.
The PPC will abolish these racist laws.
There are several good reasons why medical schools would want to graduate physicians who reflect the diversity of Canada’s population. Studies show that patients tend to feel most comfortable with physicians who look or sound like them, who can communicate in their native languages, and/or who understand their cultural norms or religious practices. We know that institutional bias still exists in our medical system, and that Black, Indigenous and other racialized Canadians experience poorer health outcomes as a result. At worst, this bias manifests in extreme cases of medical neglect, such as that of Indigenous woman Joyce Echaquan, who was taunted by Quebec hospital staff as she writhed in pain, dying of pulmonary edema.
The Tower of Babel was not a success.
Weeks after she was stripped of her history-making rank for helping a number of racialized cops cheat to get promoted, Supt. Stacy Clarke is seeking to appeal her demotion, arguing she was villainized for conduct that is “rampant” within Canada’s largest municipal police force.
Calling the recent penalty decision in her high-profile misconduct hearing “excessive, harsh, unwarranted and disproportionate,” Clarke — the first Black female superintendent in Toronto police history — filed a notice of appeal late last month to the province’s police adjudicative body.
She should have been fired.
A medical watchdog organization filed a lawsuit against the University of Washington School of Medicine for alleged racial discrimination because of a professional networking database not made available to white students.
A few blocks from the US Capitol, Union Station has for years been a hotspot for homeless encampments. The contrast between the enormous Beaux-Arts train station and the men sleeping beneath its awnings has been the punchline of many a joke about elite hypocrisy. The men and women whose policy decisions are blamed for such public disorder consider it unkind, even gauche, to discuss the problem.
It’s here that one of America’s most controversial writers, Steve Sailer, spoke Thursday evening, the latest stop on his long journey back toward the conservative mainstream.
