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The children’s show Sesame Street continued its ongoing celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month this week despite backlash over past tweets. Sharing the multi-colored progress pride flag amid smiling flowers, the official Sesame Street account on Twitter celebrated the month as a time of “inclusion” and other cherished woke buzzwords.
“On our Street, we celebrate inclusion, belonging, and freedom of authentic self-expression. Happy #PrideMonth to all the people in our neighborhoods!” it said.
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Read MoreLists cases (current and past) of sexual misconduct by teachers and healthcare professionals as well as institutional abuse. Resources include videos and contacts for activists.
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Read MoreOshawa’s Ontario Tech University is holding segregated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) clubs for black youth – with funding from the Government of Canada.
The university also ran workshops dedicated to those who identify as black girls.
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Read MoreIn an unprecedented display of unity, Christian and Muslim communities joined hands with concerned parents in Ottawa in opposition to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s (OCDSB) plan to force non-binary pronouns on all students.
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Read MoreEmployers are looking for one thing from recent grads that they can’t get from artificial intelligence: humanity.
State of play: The ability to communicate is the No. 1 skill most requested by employers in job postings for new college graduates, according to research by Lightcast.
It’s among a host of people skills that employers seek from recent grads, according to Lightcast, which assessed more than 1.3 million job postings for entry-level workers with a bachelor’s degree.
“There are certain things that AI can’t do,” Lightcast senior economist Rachel Sederberg tells Axios. “And those are going to be increasingly important.”
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Read MoreRacially segregated graduation ceremonies for black students are taking place at several of Canada’s top universities this year, True North has learned.
Some of the ceremonies are organized by university administrators, while others are organized by black student organizations on campus.
These ceremonies come amid woke segregation being implemented in Canadian post-secondary institutions in the name of “anti-racism” and “equity, diversity and inclusion”
The black graduation ceremonies were held in addition to the standard convocation ceremonies – and that attendance was not mandatory for black students.
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Read MoreSuperintendents at an Ottawa school board sent an email to all staff saying they should start the next school year using they/them pronouns for all students until told their preferred pronouns. It also said teachings about LGBTQ identities should be embedded in the “overall learning environment” and are not “open to debate or selective participation.”
“The intention [of the email was] to suggest some actions that can be taken during Pride Month and beyond to promote inclusivity and belonging in our schools,” said Ottawa-Carleton District School Board spokesperson Darcy Knoll in an email to The Epoch Times. June is Pride Month and the email was sent out on May 31.
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Read MoreThe changes, unveiled by Education Minister Bill Hogan at a press conference in Fredericton, immediately triggered a mini revolt, and eight PC MLAs boycotted the legislature’s morning’s proceedings
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs, facing an internal revolt from eight of his MLAs over freshly revealed and controversial changes to the policy that sets gender rules in public schools, says he’s prepared to fight an election over the issue if need be.
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But it doesn’t appear he’ll have to make that call immediately.
The review of Policy 713, a source of growing controversy since Brunswick News first revealed it was underway, has engulfed the government for weeks.
Three changes to the policy were unveiled on Thursday.
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Read MoreLondon Ontario school has a lot of Muslim students.
Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School
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Read MoreA Nova Scotia youth organization is handing out “gender-affirming items” such as prosthetic breasts, fake penises and chest binders to “two spirit, trans, non-binary or gender questioning youth” under the age of 25.
The Youth Project is a non-profit charity focused on providing gender identity services to youth and the organization lists the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness and the Nova Scotia Department of Education as supporters.
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