Westlock, Alta., residents vote to get rid of town’s rainbow crosswalk in plebiscite

They made Justin cry.

Residents of Westlock, Alta., voted in favour of a bylaw Thursday evening that bans certain flags and crosswalks from being displayed on public property, including the town’s only rainbow crosswalk.

A plebiscite over a neutrality bylaw, spurred by a door-to-door petition signed by more than 700 residents, was announced in November. The bylaw, which will be implemented after Thursday’s vote, bans crosswalks and flags supporting “political, social, or religious movements or commercial entities,” in an effort to keep public spaces politically neutral.

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Eric Kaufmann: Conservative politicians who bend the knee to woke norms fail us all

The Canadian public opposes the woke position on both transgender issues and the national past. In fact, there is virtually no difference between Americans, Britons and Canadians, Anglophones or Francophones, on culture war issues. These are the findings of my new Macdonald-Laurier Institute report, The Politics of the Culture Wars in Contemporary Canada.

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I’m an Army recruiter – I dread being made to meet woke targets

As a veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I must join the criticism of ludicrous, unsafe and unfair policies

The Army has had many mottos, including most recently: “Be the best” and “Serve your King and country!” But these fundamental sentiments are increasingly under attack from woke targets that seek to degrade our military, ultimately denigrating our combat effectiveness.

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UK Defence Secretary: Woke extremists are rife in Army

The Army’s time and resources are being “squandered to promote a political agenda”, the Defence Secretary has said, as he held crisis talks with military chiefs over plans to relax security checks to increase diversity.

Grant Shapps said a “woke” and “extremist culture” had infiltrated the British Army and the military needed to focus on being a lethal fighting force.

He said that, amid the threat from Russia and the conflict in the Middle East, it was “inconceivable” that he would allow the standards for security clearance to be relaxed after The Telegraph revealed military personnel wanted to relax checks to promote ethnic diversity among officers.

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Why are museums closing their Native American exhibits?

New federal regulations are forcing museums across the US to scrap their exhibits on Native American history and culture.

At the end of January, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City announced that it would be closing two of its major Native American displays. Navigating the legal maze required to obtain consent from indigenous tribes had made maintaining the exhibits virtually impossible.

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No, you don’t need to be disabled to play Richard III

Richard III

The Globe Theatre in London has come under fire for a supposedly controversial casting choice. Last week, it was announced that Michelle Terry, who is also the Globe’s artistic director, would be taking on the titular role in Shakespeare’s Richard III later this summer. Outrage immediately ensued. Because according to identitarian activists, Terry doesn’t have the ‘lived experience’ needed to play the scheming king.

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Canadian military official tells soldiers to submit to male bathroom tampon policy: report

“Be in the thick of it! Enlist in the Tampon Brigade!”

The Canadian military is demanding soldiers support tampons in men’s bathrooms to promote LGBT “inclusion.”

According to a leaked Canadian Armed Forces memo, the Commanding Officer of the 4th Canadian Division Support Group (CDSG) of the Greater Toronto Area Detachment, Maj. Robert P. Ryan, threatened soldiers who dared to throw out tampon dispensers which had been placed in men’s bathrooms as part of the military’s new “inclusion” policy.

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No Army for White Men: Britain’s Self-Inflicted Recruiting Crisis

In wartime, countries depend not on ideological quotas but on fighting talent.

In Britain, the obsessive drive to boost ‘diversity’ across all sectors of society has no shortage of casualties to its name. One of them is merit: talent being both rare and useful, it should be sought wherever it can be found. To make an a priori fetish of women and ethnic minorities will inevitably interfere with what should be a scrupulously evidence-based, talent-seeking process. The most recent casualty, however, is nothing less than Britain’s power to maintain itself in existence as a country.

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‘People of Color’ are ‘Mascots’ for the Global Elites

During the World Economic Forum’s annual conclave of plutocrats last week, the attendees enjoyed an exotic display of indigenous culture and their own virtue signaling of their love for “diversity.” The Catholic News Agency reports, “as part of a plenary session on Wednesday titled ‘Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Is Needed,’ Chieftess Putanny Yawanawá of the Amazonian Yawanawá tribe . . . performed a shamanic rite.” Resplendent in her tribal garb and face-paint, she stood close to each of the several panel members’ faces, coughed, then blew on their foreheads.

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Jordan Peterson: Bureaucrats will rue the day they tried to shut me up

In November 2022, the administrative board that regulates the conduct of psychologists (and much more than that, it turns out) decided that my political views were a disgrace to my profession, that of clinical psychologist. I was therefore sentenced by that board, the Ontario College of Psychologists, to a bout of mandatory re-education, of indeterminate duration, at my expense, with my learning not evaluated by any standard method but subject to the opinion of those charged with, profiting by and exploiting my forced studentship. I took those decision-makers forthwith to court, and lost. The decision of the Ontario College of Psychologists was upheld. I then appealed, to a higher court. On January 16, 2024, that appeal was rejected. There were no reasons provided.

H/T DS

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Jordan Peterson loses fight with psychology college over mandatory social media training

Jordan Peterson has failed in his attempt to have the Ontario justice system prevent the College of Psychologists of Ontario from ordering him to undergo remedial social media training.

On Tuesday, a panel of three judges with the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Peterson’s motion for leave to appeal an earlier decision by the Ontario Divisional Court. No reasons were given, which is normal for the appeal court.

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