Bärbel Bas is a particularly abrasive Social Democrat and one of the most disturbing personalities in German politics. Her every public appearance provokes in me a visceral, almost ancestral disgust. Bas is also Labour Minister in Merz’s horrible cabinet, which is probably a good thing because I can’t be the only person who finds her a reprehensible hag. Without Bas, the Government would surely have substantially higher approval ratings.
On Wednesday, Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller announced that he’ll be assembling a committee to come up with a “common narrative” to hold our rapidly diversifying nation together.
This new Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion is just the latest initiative that makes some kind of vague promise to unite Canadians and, in Miller’s words, “ensure that every person feels included.” If it feels like the 30th time the Liberals have done something like this, well, you’re probably not far off. Diversity is always our strength, but diversity also perpetually needs to be solved.
Countries enforcing race or gender diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will now be at risk of the Trump administration deeming them as infringing on human rights.
The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.
The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.
The changes, which the State Department says are intended to stop “destructive ideologies”, have been condemned by rights campaigners who argue the Trump administration is re-defining long-established human rights principles to pursue ideological goals.
In other words the jigs up.
The squall-in-a-ramekin over Sarah Pochin’s comments on diversity in advertising looks to be blowing itself out. It may even strike a nostalgic note by the time you dip into this column, as you seek some temporary escape from the latest horror to unfold on the streets of London.
Why is the cultural nirvana of ‘diversity’ only required in white countries, and how long can this disastrous pattern be allowed to continue?
The savage murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, took place almost three weeks ago. It has, alas, only recently been acknowledged by the mainstream media. The CCTV footage, widely circulated via social media, is chilling for so many reasons—not least of which is the fact that the killer, DeCarlos Brown Jr, is oft-depicted hovering ghoul-like behind the unsuspecting Iryna as she casually checks her phone. There could be no finer meme juxtaposing the evil stalking the West and the innocence of those picking up the tab.
h/t kiki9
The federal government is spending $500,000 on a project aimed at making Canada’s trucking industry more diverse and inclusive.
The funding, announced Friday during National Trucking Week by Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu, will go to Trucking HR Canada through Ottawa’s Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity (WORBE) program.
Same old Liberal faces peddling the same old bad ideas.
h/t Auntie Polly (Incognito)
When diversity becomes dogma. The policies driving Canada toward decline.
For nearly a decade, the Liberal government has imposed a bevy of hyper-liberal migration policies upon the Canadian people, in an effort to forcibly inject abject diversity within the Canadian state.
Unfortunately, diversity is, at best, merely the symptom of a healthy, productive, state or nation, and never a viable end unto itself.
(Incognito)
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.
It’s been almost a year since the Southport massacre. That sunny morning, etched forever in infamy, when Axel Rudakubana committed his barbaric, depraved murders of three young girls at a dance class in the Merseyside seaside town. It sparked the worst anti-migrant riots Britain has seen in modern times, fuelled by false claims Rudakubana was a Muslim, small-boats asylum seeker. But to anyone who had been paying attention, the seeds of that horrific unrest were sown long before that.
Sounds familiar.
Anyone who has visited Canada or Australia in recent years might have noticed an interesting new tradition. This is the trend for issuing a ‘land acknowledgement’ at the start of any public event. Before discussion gets under way, some bureaucrat or other will get up and note that we are all fortunate enough to be on the land of X, and then garble the name of some not-especially-ancient tribe. The moment gives everyone a feeling of deep meaning and naturally achieves nothing.
Even our King indulged in some of this in May when he opened the latest session of the Canadian parliament. Before getting down to the meat of his speech, Charles said: ‘I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people.’ You would have thought that by dint of his being King and addressing a parliament the land had been very much ceded.
Whatever replaces cockney London, two things are certain: it will no longer be England, and it’s coming to a town near you sooner than you think.
Twenty years ago, I was a juggler. The majority of my ‘work’ was in schools. I travelled the length and breadth of England – witnessing firsthand the changes wrought by Tony Blair and New Labour ‘diversity’. I can remember all of the best jobs – invariably these were small village schools, where the pupil numbers did not exceed a hundred. The family atmosphere was tangible, and it was a great pleasure to be there. I can remember the worst ones too. These were almost always large, faceless, inner-city academies.
One in particular stands out in my memory, a primary school in East London. The cultural divide couldn’t have been starker. Only one or two in each class were what would be termed ‘white British’. The white headmaster was openly ridiculed as he proudly walked the corridors, while the teachers were largely ignored.
One of the UK’s biggest police forces has temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to boost diversity, The Telegraph can disclose.
West Yorkshire Police (WYP) is currently preventing white British candidates from applying for jobs as recruits to its police constable entry programmes. However, “under-represented” groups can lodge their applications early.
The process has raised concerns that white British candidates are being unfairly treated, amounting to a form of positive discrimination that could be potentially unlawful.
In an advertisement currently running on TV, a young white male kneels on his front lawn, trimming the grass one blade at a time with a nail clipper. Next door, a slightly older black male sits comfortably on his porch, scanning his automated payroll accounts with an air of confidence and superiority as he looks askance at his foolish neighbor.
In another ad, a large, middle-aged black woman dances and sings her way through the supermarket aisles, waited upon entirely by whites. At one point, she stands still, looking doubtfully at a middle-aged white male who has taken a break from mopping the floors. In the end, she breezes out of the store, her cart filled by white employees overjoyed to serve her.
Canada’s history is one written largely by its industrious immigrants. Having said that, in this past decade, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned this national strength into a chaotic social upheaval. There is no other way to describe the fact that the Liberals have implemented an immigration program that has purposely transformed the country’s ethnicity and its character. Canadians have yet to fully realize what has transpired. And still, the Liberals continue to permit plane loads of migrants to land at the Toronto and Montreal airports.
It is instructive to look back at the genesis of the Liberals immigration policy to understand exactly what has occurred to Canada’s population through the past decade. Accelerating the flow of people into Canada is an immigration strategy formalized in the Trudeau government’s early years. In 2016, the federal Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which was chaired by Dominic Barton (then-McKinsey & Co. global managing partner and later the Canadian ambassador to China), recommended that there be a 50 per cent increase in annual “permanent resident” immigration levels so that in five years (2021) the number would reach 450,000. Barton was also a co-author of a paper advising the government that the country’s population should be 100 million by 2100.
It was an evil act for which Trudeau and his Liberal party must pay.
