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Matt Gurney: The CBC's 'no whites' policy is a mistake, but no accident
Vancouver police Deputy Chief Doug LePard denied Wednesday that he lied during his testimony at a Vancouver inquiry probing the investigation of the disappearances and murders of dozens of...
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Chris Selley: Adventures in diversity with the CBC
Larissa Mair has an interesting explanation for her now somewhat notorious “any race except Caucasian” casting call — quickly retracted — for a male CBC Kids host. “We were asked to seek a cast of...
View ArticleRobyn Urback: Fire Services plans to hire more women and minorities because...
Toronto Fire Services (TFS) has set a lofty new goal. No, nothing about emergency response times or service efficiency. This goal — slightly more aesthetic in nature — seeks to increase the number of...
View ArticleMatt Gurney: You can't set diversity targets for patriotism
According to reports from Postmedia, the Canadian Armed Forces are moving away from ambitious targets for the recruitment of minorities — women, visible minorities and aboriginals — into the military....
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Robyn Urback: Google’s workforce is mostly white men. So?
Ambitious women and minority technophiles should take Google’s admission of its lack of workplace diversity as fantastic news: therein lies a great opportunity. Not only has the technology giant openly...
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What it’s like to be at the centre of a media diversity firestorm and why the...
Against my better judgement, I didn’t dismiss the email notification. It was a reminder for a civic engagement event for women, and I headed over despite having had a rough few days. The event was...
View ArticleAndrew Coyne: Liberals’ idea for gender quota in Cabinet leaves out the...
As a thought experiment, suppose cabinet mattered. Or at least, suppose we thought it should. Suppose, that is, there were a number of serious issues facing the country — the economy, national...
View ArticleGeorge Jonas: Discrimination is discrimination, whatever you call it
If you conclude that doing something is wrong, you have at least three choices. 1.) Don’t do it. 2.) Do it anyway. 3.) Do it anyway, but call it something else. One easy way to find out if there is...
View ArticleOscars announce reforms in face of threatened boycott over lack of diversity
The film academy is pledging to double the number of female and minority members by 2020, and will immediately diversify its leadership by adding three new seats to its board of governors. Academy...
View ArticleJessie Legaree: Will I be a future victim of ever-narrowing diversity?
The controversy over Canada’s first private, faith-based law school has been described as the seminal Charter case of our time. Opposition to Trinity Western University has been vociferous and...
View ArticlePeter Shawn Taylor: Quotas on campus forget one part of society — men
The next generation of teachers of Manitoba will be a shining rainbow of diversity. As colourful as they may be, however, don’t expect them to represent the world as it actually exists. Or to be the...
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Should television and movie productions that hire people of colour get bigger...
The entertainment industry’s difficulties with diversity in front of and behind the camera were headline news throughout this recently concluded Oscar season. And while much of the coverage has been...
View ArticleRobert Fulford: Trapped inside our diversity thought prisons
The head of a key source of federal funding has written a stern letter to Canadian university presidents, warning them to improve the way they choose scholars for the elite Canada Research Chairs. To...
View ArticleAll you can eat: Bridging cultural divides at the buffet
For as long as I have known my father, he has loved buffet. Chinese buffet, to be exact, the kind with fluorescent sauce. It’s what some might call “Chinese Canadian” food, meaning if you brought it to...
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Ross Douthat: When diversity and democracy collide, maybe the answer is a...
One of the hard truths of human affairs is that diversity and democracy do not go easily together. In the Middle East today as in Europe’s not-so-distant past, the transition from authoritarianism to...
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Rex Murphy: Celebrating ‘diversity’ will only divide us, but celebrating...
The celebration of Canada’s 150th should be an excellent time to mildly parse a few of our national values, as the current phrase has it. Particularly the elevation of “diversity” as the king and...
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