Ottawa will implement legislation to decrease Indigenous incarceration, Canada’s Justice Minister says

Canada’s Justice Minister is adamant that Liberal legislation will begin reversing the country’s disproportionate rate of Indigenous incarceration, but he acknowledges more needs to be done to address racial inequities in the justice system.

In an interview, Justice Minister David Lametti responded to recent criticism that the Liberal government has produced little in the way of policy response to the problem. The Globe reported earlier this month that Indigenous women now make up 50 per cent of the female population in federal prisons, even though just 4.9 per cent of women in Canada are Indigenous. For all Indigenous prisoners, men and women, the rate stands at 32 per cent.

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Five times the Ford government went woke

Ontario premier Doug Ford heads a Progressive Conservative (PC) government, but that hasn’t kept critics from accusing him of bringing in some pretty woke policies during his first term.

The slang term “woke” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).” A variation on “awake,” the definition suggests that woke people conduct themselves in a way that is fully conscious of society’s deepening sensitivities.

Most of the accusations of wokeism against the Ford government involve education, with some accusing the PCs of wanting to introduce Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender identity ideology into Ontario’s classrooms.

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Canadian Forces failing to break down barriers for diverse Canadians to join: watchdog

Canada’s military ombudsman is joining the chorus of those accusing the Canadian Armed Forces and Defence Department of having failed to address long-standing barriers to recruit and retain more women, visible minorities and Indigenous People.

Gregory Lick says in a new report that the military and department have adopted numerous initiatives over the last 20 years to increase the share of Armed Forces members who come from those underrepresented groups.

The moves follow several human-rights decisions and the passage of employment equity laws, amid a growing disconnect between the makeup of the military, predominantly composed of white males, and the rest of the country’s population.

Oh the horror! White males! You know, the ones who’ve done most of the fighting and dying throughout Canada’s history.

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I got home this morning to find my 20 plus year relationship with @BMO is breaking up

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A Woke Richard III Will Truly Prove a Villain

Why wokes want to cancel Shakespeare’s villains.

The outgoing artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that from now on only disabled actors will be allowed to play Richard III. In a woke world where vice presidents and Supreme Court justices are chosen based on their skin color and gender, to “prove” a hunchbacked villain, you must be a hunchback or at least have something wrong with you.

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Netflix Goes Scorched Earth on Woke Employees

When you go woke, you run the risk of going broke, and apparently, Netflix is pulling the ripcord before the streaming giant good and fully faceplants.

Following a financial report that saw its stock price plummet 37 percent in late April, Netflix is now moving to adjust its culture and reengage its frustrated audience. A new “culture memo” dealing with “artistic expression” has been sent out, and it’s clearly a shot at the woke staffers who have been sandbagging the company.

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Portland to open no rules, anything goes, “Queer Village” homeless shelter next to an elementary school

A so-called “Queer Affinity Village” is about to be placed on city-owned land. This will be a no rules, no questions asked, taxpayer-funded LGBTQP+ themed “outdoor shelter” for the homeless. It will be right across the street from a multilingual elementary school (pre-k through 5) and next door to a special needs middle school.

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Woke FTC To ‘Investigate’ And Possibly Freeze Elon Musk Purchase Of Twitter On Anti-trust Grounds

Is there any corner of our government bureaucracy that isn’t overrun with woke, partisan operatives seeking to enact their political agendas? I think we all know the answer to that, and the latest example comes via the FTC moving to “investigate” Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter on…anti-trust grounds?

This comes after Democrats and their media allies have spent the last few weeks absolutely losing their minds over the fact that conservatives might have a single platform that doesn’t bias their policies against them.

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Military panel recommends barring some mainstream religions from chaplaincy

A Department of National Defence (DND) advisory panel has recommended barring individuals from the military chaplaincy whose organized religion’s beliefs do not align with the department’s equality and social justice values.

The Minister of National Defence Advisory Panel on Systemic Racism and Discrimination’s Final Report for January 2022 reads that “(i)t is necessary to recognize that for some Canadians religion can be a source of suffering and generational trauma. This is especially true for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirited members of Canadian society.”

The panel’s first of four recommendations – contained beneath the heading of “Re-Defining Chaplaincy” – is blunt.

“Do not consider for employment as spiritual guides or multi-faith representatives Chaplaincy applicants affiliated with religious groups whose values are not aligned with those of the Defence Team.”

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Stupid students ruin cool statue for everyone

Cool statue. Stupid kids.

Wisconsin high school students seek removal of ghost statue they say evokes KKK

Students at a Wisconsin high school say a statue of a ghost riding a horse evokes the Ku Klux Klan and want it removed.

The “Galloping Ghost” is the mascot of Kaukauna High School in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, and a bronze statue of a horse riding phantasm has adorned the campus grounds since 2000.

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