Wokeness North: An “anti-racist” physician-education framework threatens Canada’s medical system.

Canadians often chafe at American cultural imperialism, but Canada’s health-care leaders appear set to import American-style wokeness to the country’s medical schools.

Next year, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, which oversees the training and licensure of the country’s doctors, will roll out the newest version of CanMEDS, a physician-education framework that effectively dictates the curriculum at Canada’s 17 accredited medical schools, including McGill University School of Medicine, which I attended and where I now serve on the faculty. The Royal College, established by an Act of Parliament in the 1929, proudly notes that CanMEDS is “the most widely accepted and applied physician competency framework in the world,” surpassing the equivalent system in the U.S.

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Surrey schools pull To Kill a Mockingbird and other books from recommended reading curriculum

Surrey public school educators have pulled four classic books from the recommended reading curriculum over concerns about racist content.

The Surrey school district quietly decided to remove Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck from the list of books recommended for students Grade 10 and older.

… “We did a comprehensive review of these resources that determined that the merits of these novels do not outweigh the potential trauma and harm they may cause to some students,” she said.


They’re not “banned” but a teacher must have permission to use them in the classroom.

I was reading about WW I, WW II and the Holocaust in elementary school. Are kids that fragile today?

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Who Will Deprogram the Radicals at National Public Radio?

One of the grandest fictions of our leftist media is that somehow, championing “social change” is what makes you a “bona fide news organization.” Anyone who resists that siren song isn’t a professional, but a propagandist. One-sided coverage is great — if you’ve picked the right side.

On Feb. 19, National Public Radio displayed this fiction with an audaciously arrogant story headlined “Poland’s new government deprograms its once far-right public media.” Let’s especially giggle at the word “deprogram.” To restore something to the Left is like breaking out of a cult.

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How the luxury beliefs of an educated elite erode society

Whether attacking marriage, calling out white privilege or seeking to defund the police, the university class espouse ideas that confer status on them at little cost. But it’s the least privileged who suffer the effects

Born in Los Angeles into what many would consider the American lower class, I entered the foster system aged three after my drug-addicted birth mother, originally from Seoul, was unable to care for me. Over the next five years, I moved through seven different foster homes. I grew up without knowing my father, only discovering his Hispanic heritage, with roots in Mexico and Spain, through a genetic test last year.

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Westlock, Alta., residents vote to get rid of town’s rainbow crosswalk in plebiscite

They made Justin cry.

Residents of Westlock, Alta., voted in favour of a bylaw Thursday evening that bans certain flags and crosswalks from being displayed on public property, including the town’s only rainbow crosswalk.

A plebiscite over a neutrality bylaw, spurred by a door-to-door petition signed by more than 700 residents, was announced in November. The bylaw, which will be implemented after Thursday’s vote, bans crosswalks and flags supporting “political, social, or religious movements or commercial entities,” in an effort to keep public spaces politically neutral.

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Eric Kaufmann: Conservative politicians who bend the knee to woke norms fail us all

The Canadian public opposes the woke position on both transgender issues and the national past. In fact, there is virtually no difference between Americans, Britons and Canadians, Anglophones or Francophones, on culture war issues. These are the findings of my new Macdonald-Laurier Institute report, The Politics of the Culture Wars in Contemporary Canada.

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I’m an Army recruiter – I dread being made to meet woke targets

As a veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I must join the criticism of ludicrous, unsafe and unfair policies

The Army has had many mottos, including most recently: “Be the best” and “Serve your King and country!” But these fundamental sentiments are increasingly under attack from woke targets that seek to degrade our military, ultimately denigrating our combat effectiveness.

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UK Defence Secretary: Woke extremists are rife in Army

The Army’s time and resources are being “squandered to promote a political agenda”, the Defence Secretary has said, as he held crisis talks with military chiefs over plans to relax security checks to increase diversity.

Grant Shapps said a “woke” and “extremist culture” had infiltrated the British Army and the military needed to focus on being a lethal fighting force.

He said that, amid the threat from Russia and the conflict in the Middle East, it was “inconceivable” that he would allow the standards for security clearance to be relaxed after The Telegraph revealed military personnel wanted to relax checks to promote ethnic diversity among officers.

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Why are museums closing their Native American exhibits?

New federal regulations are forcing museums across the US to scrap their exhibits on Native American history and culture.

At the end of January, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City announced that it would be closing two of its major Native American displays. Navigating the legal maze required to obtain consent from indigenous tribes had made maintaining the exhibits virtually impossible.

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