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.
An aspiring air traffic controller who claims he was denied a job because of diversity targets said the aviation agency’s obsession with inclusion made an accident likely to happen.
Andrew Brigida, 35, scored 100 per cent in his training exam but claims he was denied a position in an air traffic control tower because the recruitment process of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) favoured diverse candidates.
He is part of a class action lawsuit filed against the federal agency.
Trump administration officials are pressing federal agencies to dig deeper to find diversity workers to push out of the government, according to current and former officials familiar with internal conversations.
President Trump’s Office of Personnel Management last week required federal agencies to close offices that focus exclusively on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility and place employees of those divisions on paid administrative leave by Jan. 22. Agency leaders were required to submit a list of all DEI employees the following day.
BREAKING: Ibram X. Kendi's "Center for Antiracist Research" is permanently shutting down and laying off its staff. Kendi's center hoovered up tens of millions of dollars in grants, but produced virtually no work. Another BLM-era grift comes to a close. pic.twitter.com/LLpqP5KHFg
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 30, 2025
Nine in 10 academic job postings from some of the largest universities in Canada incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles in their hiring processes, a new study suggests.
The analysis, published by the Calgary-based think tank Aristotle Foundation, says that 98 percent of active job postings at 10 of Canada’s largest public universities include DEI requirements or strategies for filling vacancies.
9 out of 10? Good to know nearly everyone is getting a crappy education and not just you!
Corporations are sick of diversity hacks
The buzzy Apple show Severance depicts a group of office drones trapped in a cubicle hell called Lumon Industries. It’s a workplace drama in which suspiciously little is revealed about the actual work done by protagonist Mark Scout (played by Adam Scott) and his colleagues. It appears to be a Sisyphean task of sorting random numbers — but we have no idea why, and neither do they. Do any of these people hunched over screens do anything of use?
Academic performance is down in Ontario – by a lot.
According to results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), from 2003 to 2022 (the latest year of PISA data), math test scores in Ontario declined by 35 points and reading scores declined by 12 points.
To put this in perspective, PISA equates 20 points with approximately one grade level. So, Ontario students are nearly two grades behind in their math skills, and more than half a grade behind in their reading skills, than they were in 2003.
I blame the parents who treat their child’s education as nothing more than daycare.
Every strike results in capitulation to the teacher’s unions because parents demand a “solution” to their babysitting problem.
What do they get in return? Schools run by overpaid perverts unfit for any job.
Doug Ford will do what all politicians do. Ignore this issue so as not to anger the unions for the upcoming election.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid and her Wednesday guest, National President of the American Federation of Government Employees Everett Kelley, think you are stupid. On The ReidOut, the duo reacted to President Donald Trump ordering the end of DEI offices across the federal government by claiming such moves represent an attack on “disabled veterans.”
This is a historic moment. For the past five years, I have been fighting to defeat critical race theory, gender cultism, and DEI. Now, President Trump has taken decisive action and instructed his administration to rip out these malicious ideologies root and branch, not just from the federal government but from all institutions that receive federal funding—universities, schools, corporations. All of it.
As public opinion throughout North America turns against controversial diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, the largest school board in Canada is poised to double down on this divisive agenda.
Last week, a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) committee voted in support of sending a request to the provincial government to make DEI certification mandatory for teachers.
A Toronto District School Board (TDSB) committee has voted in favour of asking the province to put in place diversity, equity, and anti-racism certification for all Ontario teachers. The motion will now be referred to trustees at the regular board meeting on Jan. 22 for approval.
The motion was brought forward at a Jan. 16 meeting of the Program and School Services Committee by trustees Deborah Williams and Debbie King on behalf of student trustee Angelika Bell.
Ford should be all over this but he is a coward.
The president-elect has prompted a backlash against boardroom virtue signalling and diversity phrases
Asked to describe the vibe shift on Wall Street since Donald Trump’s re-election last November, a senior hedge fund manager replies simply with a link to Landman, a new drama series on the Paramount+ streaming service.
Starring Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Hamm, and released just under a fortnight after Trump’s resounding victory, it follows the boom-time skirmishing of wildcat oil explorers in West Texas — think Mad Men for fossil fuels.
I love how “Landman” is just Billy Bob Thornton giving based lectures to a left-wing white woman.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 13, 2025
The boss class’s diversity initiatives were a knife in the heart of workplace solidarity.
So, is it RIP DEI? The boss class’s favourite ideology certainly seems to be in trouble. Big business everywhere is rethinking its devotion to ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’. As part of his coming out as a pretty standard tech bro who bristles at woke and loves Joe Rogan, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has said DEI might be for the chopping block. He even instructed his minions to take the tampons out of the men’s bathrooms at Meta HQ. Expecting people who menstruate to use the ladies’ loo? Guys, this is big.
Instead of focusing on hiring the most qualified people, the government, educators, and businesses have focused on picking people who matched a desired skin color, or sexual preference, to fill board seats and other jobs.
For the past decade, Ottawa politicized research funding: Liberal ministers pledged to embed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) into research practices while bringing diversity targets to the sector; they even said outright that federal funds would be used to tinker with the demographics within the research ecosystem.
And now, in 2024, the House of Commons is finally hearing about it. In October, the science committee kicked off a study on the impact of government funding requirements on Canadian research, and, for once, invited a slate of witnesses who don’t bow to DEI dogma.
There is a great clanging and clamoring around the offices in Washington, D.C. and Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Political operatives, policy wonks, and opposition figures are all planning for the arrival of the second Donald Trump administration.
I’ve spoken with many of the people in the president-elect’s orbit who are planning how to staff Cabinet departments and set a new tone on the administration’s first day. Much of our discussion has focused on the approach to DEI, or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
