Toronto … People City

Apparently over a cellphone.

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Prison officers have been told to call criminals “prison leavers” not convicts

Prison officers have been told not to call criminals “convicts”, as the term could be offensive to some.

Civil servants have also instructed warders not to use the phrase “ex-con” for former prisoners. They should instead refer to them as “persons with lived experience” or “prison leavers”.

A Prison Service spokesman said the term convicts was “inaccurate, given a large proportion of prisoners are on remand ahead of trial and have therefore not been convicted”.

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ANALYSIS: Public Funding Erodes Ideological Freedom, Say Ontario Catholic School Stakeholders

Public funding means the government, not the church or the faith, pulls the ideological strings in Ontario’s Catholic school system, some stakeholders say. And this particularly affects how the schools handle matters of gender and sexuality.

It’s a cautionary tale to any institution assured it will remain independent when accepting government funding, says Jake Zwart, executive director of the Ontario Christian Home Educators’ Connection.

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Students picket Kansas high school to get female English teacher of 15 years FIRED after she criticized school’s ‘woke ideology and repeated white shaming’

A group of high school students in suburban Kansas City organized a walkout over a teacher who went public in an online op-ed about her problems with the district’s diversity, equality and inclusion policies.

Caedran Sullivan – Righteous Educator

The students at Shawnee Mission North High School were met with counter protesters who support English teacher Caedran Sullivan’s outrage. According to her LinkedIn page, Sullivan has taught at the school for 15 years.

Students accuse Sullivan of not using the correct pronouns when addressing transgender students and of critiquing non-white students experiences of racism, reports Fox Kansas City.

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Nearly 6 Million Census Respondents Marked Their Ethnicity as ‘Canadian,’ StatCan Finds … RCMP investigating possible hate crime

Nearly 6 million respondents to Canada’s “2021 Census of Population” marked their ethnicity or cultural origins as “Canadian,” making it the most named of any ethnicity by census users, according to Statistics Canada figures released on May 10.

Question 23 on Canada’s last long-form census asked respondents to identify the “ethnic or cultural origins” of their ancestors—to which just under 5.7 million individuals replied “Canadian,” as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

Don’t play the identity politics game it’s rigged against you.

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Parents of Ontario Catholic Student Vocal About Gender Beliefs Suspended From Teaching Jobs

Grade 11 student Josh Alexander of Renfrew, Ont., has received international attention for an ongoing struggle with his Catholic school board over his belief that God made only two genders. His parents, who are teachers in a separate board, have recently been put on leave and are under investigation. They suspect it’s because of the attention their son has gotten.

“From the beginning, I understood the consequences my actions may have and I was willing to take that stand and face the consequences,” Alexander told The Epoch Times. “But I must admit, I’m pretty disappointed to see that since they haven’t been able to get to me, they’re now attacking my family.”

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DEI Swallows Texas A&M

The university has adopted radical politics in order to “dismantle systemic racism.”

Texas A&M is a systematically racist institution. According to whom? According to the leadership of Texas A&M.

In recent years, the College Station-based public university, originally founded with a focus on agriculture and engineering, has built a vast “diversity, equity, and inclusion” bureaucracy that has adopted the narrative of left-wing racialism, segregated students by race, and told colleagues to “stop centering whiteness.”

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