Jamie Sarkonak: DEI gardening — the new Liberal priority for agriculture

DEI gardening under Mao.

Free money alert: next Monday, the federal agriculture department will begin accepting applications for cash handouts that fund garden boxes, refrigeration units, greenhouses, ATVs, snowmobiles, tractors, hydroponic systems and more. But there’s a catch — anyone who receives these funds must use them to directly support “food production for equity-deserving groups.”


Letting the government decide who eats and who doesn’t always works swell, just ask Mao or Stalin.

Pure evil, as if we’re being conditioned to accept mass murder.

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Racist Canada should just let everyone in to please the Star

Canada’s immigration approach is becoming more exclusionary. It’s not the direction we should be heading

In 2023, Canada marked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that explicitly banned nearly all Chinese immigrants for nearly a quarter century. Many see it as a black mark in Canadian history because it deliberately targeted and expelled the very Chinese labourers who had done the dangerous, back-breaking work of building the Canadian Pacific Railway, only to be cast aside once their labour was no longer needed.

The centenary was a moment of reflection. But since then, Canada has become more restrictive, not less. Rising immigration refusal rates, while not racially explicit, are carrying the pattern of exclusion forward.


About the “author” Yvonne Su is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University and a visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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SFU professor says he didn’t get tenure over views on diversity

A former professor at Simon Fraser University has lost a B.C. labour relations case where he alleged his views on diversity, equity and inclusion cost him a tenure-track position.

Josh Gordon launched a complaint in October 2022 against the Faculty Association of Simon Fraser University in which he said the teachers’ union acted in bad faith by failing to represent him robustly in his complaint against the university for denying him tenure.

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Quebec Professor Takes Aim at DEI Criteria in Federal Research Funding

An associate professor in Quebec is raising concerns to members of Parliament about the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) criteria used to determine who qualifies for research funding.

In a submission to the Commons science committee, Maryse Beaumier of the University of Quebec in Rimouski told MPs that DEI practices in federal research funding agencies are compromising funding decisions, which are being influenced by “criteria unrelated to science, excellence, and merit.”

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Spy agencies reopen ‘racist’ internship that bans white Britons

007 meets DEI administrator

Britain’s intelligence services have re-opened a summer internship scheme to which white participants cannot apply.

Started in 2023, the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ Summer Intelligence Internship attracted criticism last year, when it was labelled “racist”.

It was offered only to young people from a “Black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority background and from a socially or economically disadvantaged background”.

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Pete Buttigieg’s DOT spent $80 billion on DEI grants, delayed air traffic control upgrades: records, industry insiders

WASHINGTON — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg failed to replace outdated air traffic control systems while in office — with his agency instead shelling out tens of billions of dollars on a DEI agenda, according to federal spending records and airline industry insiders.

In one meeting, Buttigieg — who is said to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run — told industry executives that air traffic control upgrades would just allow them to fly more planes, “and so why would that be in his interest?” sources said.

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Poets, DJs and DEI officers? Britain’s ‘skilled’ visa list is a joke

If we thought the UK’s immigration system couldn’t get any more farcical, then the Labour government has managed to prove us wrong once again.

The Telegraph has revealed that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ‘experts’ can enter the UK on a ‘skilled worker’ visa. These visas allow holders to remain in the UK for up to five years. They are supposed to help British firms plug critical skills shortages in the labour market that would otherwise go unfilled. In practice, however, it seems that just about any job you can imagine can qualify for a visa.

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Jamie Sarkonak: The CRTC is trying to tell local newsrooms what to report. It needs to stop

It shouldn’t be the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s job to regulate the demographic composition of the people we see on television. Nevertheless, it’s become a growing CRTC priority — and a critical threat to media independence in Canada.

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Race-Based Organ Transplants in Biden Era Flipped DEI to DIE

We thought refashioning DEI to DIE was a sardonic joke, but alas, in his haste to make nearly everything in American life race-based, President Joe Biden is believed to have put “equity” over medical need in the nation’s organ transplant system. And then his people hid the documents that would prove it.

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MORGAN: DEI still dominates hiring in Carney’s government

Canada employs 357,000 people in the federal civil service. While the nation is enjoying scarcity of everything from health care services to housing, the one thing we don’t lack for is bureaucrats. The Public Health Agency alone has 4,211 employees within it.

Despite this embarrassment of riches when it comes to available, qualified bureaucrats, the Government of Canada has appointed as President of the Public Health Agency a person who appears to be wholly unqualified for such an important position.

Why would they do this?

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Jamie Sarkonak: He mildly questioned DEI. His law school calls that ‘misconduct’

The University of Saskatchewan’s law school allows some of its Indigenous students to take more time on exams for the purpose of “equity.” So, when this blew up into a faculty controversy in 2022, with proponents of the benefit aghast that anyone would ever question the idea as others quietly made their concerns known to student leaders, one member of the law school tried to make peace between the factions — only to be punished by the university for his efforts.

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Randall Denley: Ontario is finally forcing out DEI from schools and universities

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has done something truly conservative. His government’s proposed rule changes for colleges, universities and school boards are aimed squarely at shifting power away from the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) crowd and weakening their control over education.

It’s welcome news for anyone who thinks that public education should be about learning and diversity of ideas, not a playground for political activists.

I hope he’s right.

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Sweden Democrats Say No to Reducing Police Standards for the Sake of Diversity

The police forces should not “mirror” society but “protect” it.

Officials hoping to change police entry requirements to increase diversity are facing pressure from Sweden Democrat politicians who stress that forces should not “mirror” society but “protect” it.

A new report from Sweden’s National Audit Office complains that one-fifth of female applicants to the police fail the strength test—which involves lifting a weight from the ground to the chin—and that one in three applicants with a foreign background fail the aptitude test.

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The best argument against multiculturalism is staring you in the face

Whitechapel Market London

Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic

When it emerged as the guiding organisational principle of the British state, multiculturalism was sold, in the words of the hugely influential Parekh Report, as “perhaps the country’s biggest single national advantage”. The arrival of peoples from all over the world, bringing with them their unique perspectives, cuisines, religions, dresses, and cultures, would allow Britain to move on from “a narrow, English-dominated backward-looking definition of the nation” into something altogether more vibrant and exciting. Multiculturalism was to “widen a society’s range of options and increase its freedom of choice, for it brings different cultural traditions into a mutually beneficial dialogue and stimulates new ideas and experiences”. All those within society would thereby gain the opportunity to escape the narrow constraints of the culture they happened to be born into, instead becoming free to choose from the plethora of practices they would encounter every day, in doing so creating all sorts of dynamic new cultural mixes.

h/t Patti Jo

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