The University of Toronto has rescinded Buffy Sainte-Marie’s honorary degree, following a petition to revoke the honour.
The musician was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the university in 2019. At the time, a U of T publication said Sainte-Marie was being recognized for her work in music and the arts and for her advocacy work for “the rights and dignity of all people.”
The Italian community has so far maintained a silent stoic response.
A former Bond girl has said that 007 has to be a white man.
Maryam d’Abo, 65, who played a cello smuggling Bond girl in the The Living Daylights in 1987, has given her verdict on who Daniel Craig’s successor should be.
Asked if she thought a black actor could be cast, she said: “Then don’t call it Bond. Call it something else. You can have a wonderful black hero, but then don’t call him James Bond.”
Thomas King, the award-winning Canadian-American author of such books as the 2020 novel Indians on Vacation and 2012’s The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, is not part Cherokee, as he long assumed himself to be.
In an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail, the 82-year-old writer said he learned he was not Indigenous when he met recently with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, a whistle-blowing organization based in North Carolina that is dedicated to exposing false claims of Native American heritage.
“I’m still in shock,” Mr. King said, speaking from his home in Guelph, Ont.
To his credit …
All my life, I believed I was Indigenous. Now, I must reckon with the inconvenient truth
Emerging from the train station in Bath, my wife and I were greeted by the 18th century. There were men in top hats and tails wielding ornate canes; women in elegant regency gowns so large they swallowed six square feet of street; fancy bonnets. It is the 250th birthday year of Jane Austen, who lived in Bath from 1801 to 1806, and the city pulled out all the stops. Austen’s birthday is December 16th, but the celebrations have been going on for months. At least, for some.
A Bollywood-inspired adaptation of A Christmas Carol will star a version of Ebenezer Scrooge who ‘despises refugees’, the director has revealed.
The musical, which is directed by Gurinder Chadha and based on the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens, will feature a ‘British-Indian’ man named Sood as the lead character.
He is described as a wealthy man who hates poor people and refugees on the basis they ‘haven’t worked as hard as him to get where he is’.
Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—two of America’s most prominent socialist politicians—have committed identity theft. No, they did not pilfer a Social Security number or swipe the digits of someone else’s credit card. They have done something more subtle: stealing the image of the oppressed for personal and political gain.
A year after her mother was sentenced to prison for defrauding Inuit organizations to help pay for her education, an Ontario woman went public for the first time about the case — and Jordan Archer’s story has again stirred up anger and frustration among Inuit.
Archer, formerly Nadya Gill, spoke to the Toronto Star earlier this month about her mother Karima Manji’s admission of guilt and conviction in a Nunavut courtroom last year, and how the case derailed Archer’s own life and career.
Archer’s story has aroused little sympathy in Nunavut, however, where many Inuit feel she and her twin sister Amira Gill still owe them an apology. The two sisters had originally been charged along with their mother, but the charges against the twins were ultimately dropped in early 2024 when Manji pleaded guilty and took “full responsibility for the matters at hand.”
That Star piece is disgusting, that lying monster is no victim.
‘Pretendian’ or ‘victim’: Inside this would-be Ontario lawyer’s attempt to remake a life built on fraud
Before the headlines, Nadya Gill’s life was filled with promise.
Originally from the GTA, she played on Canada’s youth national soccer team. At 16, she entered university in the U.S. on athletic scholarships, where she excelled on the pitch and in the classroom and earned the first of five post-secondary degrees. A coach told a Connecticut TV station her competitive drive could easily lead her to becoming a lawyer, a doctor, or “a UN ambassador.”
She graduated from law school, where she won awards and worked summers at the Crown law office in Toronto. After passing the bar exam, she landed a dream articling position at a sports law firm. It allowed her to work remotely and play professional soccer in Norway.
Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of her Canadian music awards.
Both the Juno Awards and the Polaris Music Prize announced Friday they were rescinding the honours Sainte-Marie had received over the years, after the 84-year-old musician returned her Order of Canada earlier this week, saying she is an American citizen and had “made it completely clear” she is not Canadian.
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), which runs the Junos, said it made the decision in accordance with its eligibility requirements, following Sainte-Marie’s statements about not being Canadian.
‘We’ve been tokenized’: Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s entire Indigenous advisory circle resigns
Members of an Indigenous advisory committee at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet say they’re cutting ties with the organization after seven years.
The Indigenous advisory circle — comprising lawyer Danielle Morrison, two-spirit elder Albert McLeod and University of Winnipeg professor Kevin Lamoureaux — resigned en masse along with a board member via letter on Friday afternoon.
The advisory circle, formed in 2018, was intended to make Canada’s oldest ballet company “a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organization,” the ballet’s website says.
What the Hell? Why is cultural appropriation always a one-way street?
For the Left, the only good Indian is a fake Indian.
It seems that way when considering that so many of the Native Americans hyped by progressives turn out as much Indian as those Improper Bostonians who polluted their harbor with the British.
Mary Simon, the first partly indigenous person to serve as Canada’s governor general, just stripped Buffy Sainte-Marie of her appointment to the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honor in the Great White North.
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada has been terminated, nearly three decades after she was appointed in 1997.
The announcement comes more than a year after an investigation from CBC’s The Fifth Estate reported that her claims of Indigenous ancestry were inconsistent with publicly available documents.
The investigation, from Oct. 27, 2023, found Sainte-Marie’s birth certificate, which says she was born in 1941 in Massachusetts. The document lists the baby and parents as white and includes a signature of an attending physician — information CBC says is corroborated by Sainte-Marie’s marriage certificate, a life insurance policy and the United States census.
h/t Mauser and NeoCon
OTTAWA — A federal Liberal candidate in B.C. who publicly identified as Indigenous for years says she now plans to apply for Metis citizenship after a local Metis society publicly questioned her heritage claims.
In a statement provided by a Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) spokesperson, Madison Fleischer, the party’s candidate in the Cloverdale—Langley City byelection, said she is in the process of putting together an application for Metis citizenship that will be submitted to Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC).
The phenomenon of individuals with fabricated Indigenous ancestry—colloquially referred to as “pretendians” or “wannabindians”—benefiting from claims to Indigenous identity was is in the news again this week, with Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Minister Randy Boissonnault stepping down from the Trudeau government’s cabinet for falsely claiming he was Indigenous.
It is time to stop blaming the people chasing incentives and start targeting the broken system that creates the incentives.
Randy Boissonnault is out of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet after months of controversy surrounding his former medical supply business.
In a brief statement Wednesday, Trudeau said Boissonnault “agreed … (to) step away from cabinet effective immediately.”
