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Alberta promising changes to campuses amid university ‘woke’ free speech standoff

The Alberta government says changes are coming to further protect free speech on campuses as a former professor speaking out on so-called “woke” policies prepares for a showdown with the University of Lethbridge.

Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides says he plans to announce the changes in the coming days but did not give details.

He was responding to the case of Frances Widdowson, a former tenured professor at Calgary’s Mount Royal University, who was invited then disinvited to speak on campus this week about her concerns that a mob mentality and “woke policies” increasingly threaten academic freedom.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2023February 1, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture"

University of Lethbridge says speech from controversial professor moved off campus

The University of Lethbridge says a speech by a former Mount Royal University professor who was fired in 2021 amid an uproar over her controversial comments on residential schools won’t be allowed space on campus.

But the academic says she still intends to show up and give her talk entitled, “How ‘Woke-ism Threatens Academic Freedom.'”

“They will have to call security and forcibly haul me away to stop me,” Frances Widdowson wrote to CBC News in an email on Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 30, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture"

Jump or be pushed: German conservatives turn on ex-Nazi hunter over race comments

“… Now, after Maassen mused in an interview about “a green-leftist race theory” that casts “whites as inferior” and promotes “immigration by Arabic and African men”, the CDU have lost patience with a man who kept doubling down on culture war tropes, making himself a cult figure on the right fringes.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 30, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", WTF?

Common sense prevails over woke bullying …

‘Context and intention matter: Alberta Justice firing over racial slur overturned

An arbitrator has overturned the dismissal of an Alberta Justice employee who was fired for using a racial slur during an online video work meeting.

The reference was made during a Webex call on Jan. 14, 2021, when the woman used the N-word in expressing her distaste for rap music lyrics she had heard her sons listening to.

… “There is an enormous difference between calling a Black person the N-word versus quoting, in a critical way, the use of the N-word in music lyrics.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 30, 2023January 30, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", Batshit Crazy Grievance Mongers

‘Anti-woke’ Apache carnival float in Saxony puts left on war path

First came the green-faced sea king with his trident and his mermaid bride, followed by a man in a suit studded with pretzels and a troupe of raggedy clowns thwacking small children with folded fans.

Then there were the dignitaries in particoloured jesters’ hats, a paddle steamer on wheels and a phalanx of dancing girls in frilly tricorn hats.

It was, in other words, a perfectly normal German carnival parade . . . until the Apaches came along.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2023January 26, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", "Cultural Appropriation"

Depraved? You call that Depraved?

‘Bikinis and balaclavas’: Northern Ireland spa resort apologises over ‘depraved’ ad

A Northern Ireland resort has apologised for causing offence by advertising a “bikinis and balaclavas” spa package, but said it would continue offering the service.

Rosnashane House in Ballymoney, County Antrim, drew criticism over the weekend for using the image of a woman in a black bikini and balaclava to market a spa treatment with gun range shooting.

The overnight package includes a hot tub, massage and the chance to fire handguns and machine-guns. “Round up the girls or boys for the perfect fun and pampering night out,” said its Facebook page.

Depraved? You call that Depraved? Never been to San Francisco I guess. Killjoys.

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2023January 23, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture"

Scotiabank to Close Accounts of Controversial Podcaster, Army Veteran Jeremy MacKenzie, Bans Him From Branches

Jeremy MacKenzie, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran and former infantry soldier with three children, who runs a podcast called “Raging Dissident,” has been banned from his banking institution, Scotiabank, and told by the bank that it no longer wants him as a customer.

MacKenzie said he will consider legal action. “I might need to sue them because I feel like this is predatory. This is discriminatory because of my legal situation,” he said on the call with Scotiabank.

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2023January 22, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture"

Penalty Box

Progressive sports media and LGBT advocates condemn Ivan Provorov for declining participation in the NHL’s Pride Night.

On Tuesday, Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov declined to signify support for the National Hockey League’s “Pride Night” in support of LGBGT activism, citing his Russian Orthodox faith. Pride Night is part of the NHL’s “Hockey for Everyone” initiative, intended to use “the game of hockey—and the League’s global influence—to drive positive social change and foster more inclusive communities.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 22, 2023January 22, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", Big Gay

Trudeau Govt-Funded Groups Demand Venue Shut Down Jordan Peterson

Several groups who have received direct funding from the Canadian government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are demanding an Ottawa venue cancel an event featuring psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson.

by Blazingcatfur•January 22, 2023January 22, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", Canada, WTF?

Peter Menzies: Ottawa’s Speech-Restricting Legislation Built on Same Foundation That Aims to Silence Peterson, Rowling

I’m not quite sure when counselling people to make their bed every morning became a seditious act of far-right extremism, but according to a coalition in the nation’s capital, the two are linked.

Starting each day with a completed task such as tucking the sheets in is among Jordan Peterson’s tips in his book “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos,” which has now been on Amazon’s list of best-sellers for 256 weeks. He may be internationally renowned as a leading public intellectual, but in Canada some people want him shut down.

by Blazingcatfur•January 22, 2023January 21, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", Freedom of speech

Christian teacher who spent 100 days behind bars for refusing to use gender-neutral pronouns is SACKED by his school

Enoch Burke has two weeks to launch an appeal after he was dismissed from his teaching post yesterday, following a chaotic disciplinary hearing.

Mr Burke is entitled to appeal within ten working days after Thursday’s ‘stage 4’ hearing to decide if he should be fired.

The teacher, who spent three months in prison for defying a court order to stay away from his school following a row that started over the preferred pronouns of a transgender pupil, was informed of the decision yesterday.

by Blazingcatfur•January 21, 2023January 21, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture"

Minor league hockey player rips LGBT ‘mafia’ after being released for anti-woke tweet

A minor league hockey player is refusing to be silent about the LGBT agenda after getting dismissed from his team for pointing out another club’s embrace of wokeism.

“It’s a full-on mafia. They have organizations under their grasp,” 28-year-old Louie Rowe told LifeSite yesterday. “If it had any grounds in morality, you would not need power to force acceptance.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 21, 2023January 20, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture"

Ivan Provorov’s Faithful Stand Exposes Anti-Religious Intolerance In The Name Of Tolerance

“Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,” reads Christ’s eighth beatitude in the Gospel of Matthew. It is perhaps the beatitude most often viewed as a remnant of the ancient world among modern Americans, as persecution of the faithful has been remarkably absent in this country. Every now and then, though, a news story reminds us Christ’s proclamation is just as important as ever.

by Blazingcatfur•January 20, 2023January 19, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", Big Gay, Christian Persecution

Bunch of assholes in Ottawa want local Jordan Peterson event cancelled

“As we approach the one-year anniversary of the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy,’ the last thing we need is a spokesperson of the far-right taking centre stage in our city,” said Jaime Sadgrove, manager of communications and advocacy for the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, one of 36 local organizations calling for the cancellation of the event in an open letter.

by Blazingcatfur•January 19, 2023January 19, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", Jordan Peterson

Conrad Black: Jordan Peterson is only the beginning — professional organizations come for us all

Last week in this space, I inveighed against the College of Psychologists of Ontario’s assault upon the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of my eminent friend and probably Canada’s greatest contemporary public intellectual, Dr. Jordan Peterson. Continuing in the same theme, I’ve been looking at this creeping and under-publicized phenomenon of professional and craft organizations stifling and regimenting their members, in particular the struggle that has been conducted for the last six years between the supporters of the Statement of Principles, the so-called SOP, and its resisters in the Law Society of Ontario, (the Bar of Ontario), generally known as StopSOP. No one would seriously dispute that these professions and all learned or skilled associations of specialists do require some level of group regulation to oversee admission and standards, and that, in principle, it is better to come from associations led by people elevated by and answerable to those pursuing the relevant occupations, rather than indulging the current ravening public sector ambition to impose its fiat on all of society like an attacking swarm of Sheridan battle tanks.

by Blazingcatfur•January 14, 2023January 14, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", Jordan Peterson