Politics offers such sparse opportunities to talk about poetry that when even a sliver of a chance to do so blinks into view I will seize it.
I know in doing so I am missing the opportunity to join the ever swelling chorus of sage pundits warning of the horrible dangers to the Confederation of the Poilievre campaign — it’s another truckers’ convoy! — but there will be other days, other columns.
Comedian Tyler Fischer, whose spot-on impressions of former President Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others have helped build a huge YouTube following, is suing a talent management company he claims rejected him for being white, according to a report.
Education officials in the U.S. might have honestly believed that they could make a mountainous ruin out of American education—subjecting students to two years of ruinous remote education, masking policies, and unbridled hysteria— and not suffer any consequences for it.
Content warning for Indigenous readers: colonial violence is discussed in this essay.
Let’s liberate the Canadian landscape from the Group of Seven and their nationalist mythmaking
It has taken me a long time to reconcile the Group of Seven and their place in Canada’s mythology. On one hand, I love their paintings: they are beautiful and varied in their landscapes, a representation of these lands in all their sacredness and life. On the other hand, they suffocate. The Group of Seven’s nationalist story surrounds us like the prints of their work that hang in Canada’s households, schools, and galleries.
This sounds like culturally appropriated Bullshit. h/t DM
Netflix’s recent axing of 150 staff targeted many of the firm’s wokest workers who are prolific social justice warriors on social media.
The struggling streaming service has pulled the plug on several projects that were aimed at discussing race and LGBTQ issues, Variety reported, and axed the diverse employees working on and promoting them.
In addition to the layoffs, the company also fired nearly 70 employees working for its social media and publishing teams focused on marginalized communities.
Guys you did not see a video of a mom’s mic getting cut off at a board meeting. This is all a figment of your imagination. The fact checkers said so. https://t.co/k8qSriIMWD https://t.co/K8SXIUs4eu pic.twitter.com/r4UeG3P9hm
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2022
The clothing line features the rainbow Pride flag printed on T-shirts, baby clothes, bracelets, sweaters, socks, backpacks and other items.
Several products incorporate the flag’s colors with fictional Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse.
Canada’s Justice Minister is adamant that Liberal legislation will begin reversing the country’s disproportionate rate of Indigenous incarceration, but he acknowledges more needs to be done to address racial inequities in the justice system.
In an interview, Justice Minister David Lametti responded to recent criticism that the Liberal government has produced little in the way of policy response to the problem. The Globe reported earlier this month that Indigenous women now make up 50 per cent of the female population in federal prisons, even though just 4.9 per cent of women in Canada are Indigenous. For all Indigenous prisoners, men and women, the rate stands at 32 per cent.
Ontario premier Doug Ford heads a Progressive Conservative (PC) government, but that hasn’t kept critics from accusing him of bringing in some pretty woke policies during his first term.
The slang term “woke” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).” A variation on “awake,” the definition suggests that woke people conduct themselves in a way that is fully conscious of society’s deepening sensitivities.
Most of the accusations of wokeism against the Ford government involve education, with some accusing the PCs of wanting to introduce Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender identity ideology into Ontario’s classrooms.
Canada’s military ombudsman is joining the chorus of those accusing the Canadian Armed Forces and Defence Department of having failed to address long-standing barriers to recruit and retain more women, visible minorities and Indigenous People.
Gregory Lick says in a new report that the military and department have adopted numerous initiatives over the last 20 years to increase the share of Armed Forces members who come from those underrepresented groups.
The moves follow several human-rights decisions and the passage of employment equity laws, amid a growing disconnect between the makeup of the military, predominantly composed of white males, and the rest of the country’s population.
Oh the horror! White males! You know, the ones who’ve done most of the fighting and dying throughout Canada’s history.
I got home this morning to find my 20 plus year relationship with @BMO is breaking up.
Like thousands of other Canadians I received a letter we no longer get along.
30 days to close my accounts.
If you don’t think they are tracking you THINK again.
I was ready, will u be????— Miss Tammy (@mack3636) May 15, 2022
On Wednesday, Fisher-Price unveiled the Little People Collector RuPaul figure set. The beloved toy brand shrunk down the 6-foot-5-inch drag icon into 3-inch toy figurines that “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fans and their kids can have for their own playroom or mantle.
Why wokes want to cancel Shakespeare’s villains.
The outgoing artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that from now on only disabled actors will be allowed to play Richard III. In a woke world where vice presidents and Supreme Court justices are chosen based on their skin color and gender, to “prove” a hunchbacked villain, you must be a hunchback or at least have something wrong with you.
When you go woke, you run the risk of going broke, and apparently, Netflix is pulling the ripcord before the streaming giant good and fully faceplants.
Following a financial report that saw its stock price plummet 37 percent in late April, Netflix is now moving to adjust its culture and reengage its frustrated audience. A new “culture memo” dealing with “artistic expression” has been sent out, and it’s clearly a shot at the woke staffers who have been sandbagging the company.
A so-called “Queer Affinity Village” is about to be placed on city-owned land. This will be a no rules, no questions asked, taxpayer-funded LGBTQP+ themed “outdoor shelter” for the homeless. It will be right across the street from a multilingual elementary school (pre-k through 5) and next door to a special needs middle school.
