The plot has thickened in the tragic suicide of a school principal, as documents now show the equity and diversity training — alleged to have led to his downfall — was awarded as a sole-sourced contract.
“Diversity”
Fox to probe chicken death
TDSB launches investigation in wake of former principal’s suicide
The Toronto District School Board said Thursday it is launching an investigation in the wake of the recent suicide of a former principal who said he was harassed and bullied during anti-racism training sessions held two years ago.
Richard Bilkszto, a 60-year-old retired principal, sued the TDSB earlier this year, alleging that his reputation was “systemically demolished” during two anti-Black racism training sessions in the spring of 2021 when, after he had challenged some of the speaker’s comments, he was allegedly singled out and accused of supporting white supremacy.
Diversity Programs Miss the Point of a Liberal College Education
Academia is in the midst of a generational turmoil. Blue states such as California and Oregon have recently transformed their public universities with expansive “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs that have profound implications for admissions, speech, hiring and scholarship. Red states such as Florida and Texas have recently passed legislation abolishing them, concluding that the programs that have sprung up to execute D.E.I. promote a stifling orthodoxy that undermines the pursuit of truth.
RIP, Richard Bilkszto, a Toronto Educator Who Stood up to Woke Bullying—and Paid the Price
In late April, 2021, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainer named Kike Ojo-Thompson presented a lecture to senior Toronto public-school administrators, instructing them on the virulent racism that (Ojo-Thompson believes) afflicts Canadian society. Canada, she said, is a bastion of “white supremacy and colonialism,” in which the horrors unleashed by capitalism and sexism regularly lay waste to the lives of non-white and female Canadians.
15 people arrested, 73 charges laid in GTA-wide commercial auto theft investigation
Peel police have arrested 15 people following an investigation into an auto theft ring that was allegedly stealing fully loaded commercial vehicles and then selling their cargo to unwitting buyers.
Police say the investigation, dubbed “Project Big Rig,” began in March, and was a joint-forces operation between Peel Regional Police, York Regional Police, the Toronto Police Service, Halton Regional Police and Ontario Provincial Police.
Not very inclusive!
h/t MP
Ten Reasons Why Affirmative Action Died
The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so long.
First, supporters of racial preferences always pushed back the goal posts for the program’s success. Was institutionalized reverse bias to last 20 years, 60 years, or ad infinitum?
Parity became defined as an absolute equality of result. If “equity” was not obtained, then only institutionalized “racism” explained disparities. And only reverse racism was deemed the cure.
The “Chilling” Effect
Florida’s tenured radicals say that my reporting is making them “nervous.” Good.
My recent reporting on radical DEI programming in state universities, which helped pave the way for the abolition of those programs by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, has apparently made left-wing academics in Florida’s public universities nervous.
Last week, University of Central Florida professor Robert Cassanello told the Tampa Bay Times that his colleagues are terrified of being exposed publicly. “They’re changing their classes or they’re not assigning books they would normally assign out of fear that if that stuff gets published that Chris Rufo is going to come and target them and tweet about them and they’ll be in the crosshairs,” Cassanello said.
Culturally Appropriated Snow White and the Seven… Politically-Correct Companions?
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho it’s off to the job centre they go — for the seven dwarves have been replaced by ‘magical creatures’ for Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White.
Rachel Zegler, who plays the fictional princess, has been pictured for the first time with her new companions who appear to be a mix of genders, ethnicities and heights.
The actress, wearing Snow White’s famous yellow and blue dress and a red cape, is trailed by the group who are dressed in brightly coloured clothes and carrying work tools. They were spotted shooting scenes in Bedfordshire on Thursday in pictures obtained exclusively by MailOnline.
Cultural genocide seems more like it.
Starring Ms. Box Office Poison Rachel Zegler!
White pupils excluded from extra Saturday literacy lessons
White pupils have been excluded from extra weekend literacy classes at schools in North London, The Telegraph can reveal.
Parents at a primary school in Haringey have been told that schools will fund Saturday school places for children from black and black heritage families to “accelerate progress in reading and writing whilst also developing the children’s knowledge of black history and culture”.
However, no comparable offer was made for white pupils despite parents arguing that evidence shows white working-class boys have fallen behind their peers.
This sort of diseased thinking crops up too often for it to be accidental.
Penn State professor sues the college after he claimed he was forced to teach that the English language is ‘racist’ and the ’embodiment of white supremacy’
An English professor who worked at Pennsylvania State University is suing the college on claims that they racially discriminated against him and other white staff.
Zack De Piero, 40, served as an assistant professor of English and Composition at Penn State-Abington from 2018 to 2022.
During this time he claims he was forced to grade ‘hispanic and black’ students differently and was subject to exercises centered on critical race theory where white staff were made to feel ‘terrible.’
Man praised for calmly filming road-rage incident in Brampton
Background to yesterday’s vid
As the weather gets warmer, so too are the tempers on GTA roads.
A woman was caught on camera lashing out at a man in Brampton when he tried to get her information after she allegedly hit his car.
#Brampton : Baljeet Kaur ,a Punjabi immigrant tried to run over a white male and then attempted to flee away while he was recording constantly assaulting him. Since when does having a camera in your face justify assault??
This is @JustinTrudeau #Canada 🇨🇦#Sikhs #Khalistan pic.twitter.com/KXQAguk1cV— truthseeker (@chaosismygoal) June 20, 2023
Meanwhile in Surrey
#SurreyBC : Sikh immigrants have now blocked roads to demand justice for their terrorist leader who was killed today . What does #Canada have to do with this ? Why don’t these people go back to their home country and fight there ? #Canadian immigration is a joke 🇨🇦
#Trudeau pic.twitter.com/Iy5n0kuEzm— truthseeker (@chaosismygoal) June 20, 2023
Diversity in action
#Brampton : Baljeet Kaur ,a Punjabi immigrant tried to run over a white male and then attempted to flee away while he was recording constantly assaulting him. Since when does having a camera in your face justify assault??
This is @JustinTrudeau #Canada 🇨🇦#Sikhs #Khalistan pic.twitter.com/KXQAguk1cV— truthseeker (@chaosismygoal) June 20, 2023
India angered by apparent Sikh parade float in Canada portraying assassination
OTTAWA — India’s foreign minister is condemning images of a parade said to have occurred in Brampton, Ont., which seemed to portray the 1984 assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards.
Your Daily Diversity …
Suspected MS-13 gang members arrested in shooting of man north of Toronto
Three men have been charged in connection with a brazen drive-by shooting north of Toronto that seriously injured a man who was out walking his dog in February, York Regional Police said on Friday.
Carlos Ricardo Gutierrez, 27, Carlos Pena Torrez, 34, and Kenny Banchon Urbina, 30, all of Toronto, have been charged with a string of offences, including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Diversity is another word for shithole state.
Jamie Sarkonak: Liberals bring identity quotas to Canada Media Fund
In 2021, the Liberals said they would dramatically boost funding for the Canada Media Fund. And they did — but that funding came with diversity quotas and a new emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
It’s another bald-faced example of the Liberals infusing identity into public (or publicly-funded-but-government-adjacent) media programs to craft Canada in their image. Now, the program is beholden to diversity-based budgeting (with diversity “targets” in its largest funding branch), an identity tracking system for content producers and a “narrative positioning” policy that guides how stories about certain groups are told.
White men need not apply. I think I will now make it a personal goal to never watch anything described as Canadian content.