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McGill called ‘too white,’ Drake & an illegal rooming house
From Drake's Shoppers Drug Mark shot music video "Started From the Bottom" 1. After Drake won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album on Sunday night he released a video for his new single, Started From...
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Britain’s anti-multicultural academic
Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters He’s an unlikely far-right trailblazer: neither old, nor angry, nor square. Jack Buckby, the 20-year-old founder of the National Culturists—a Tea Party-inspired youth movement...
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Kicked out of a movie night for the colour of my skin
From the film Precious Knowledge A friend and I went to a movie night one Friday evening in January hosted by the Students of Colour Collective (SOCC), a campus group at the University of Victoria,...
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Free speech at Queen’s, White Student Union & Bill Clinton
Queen's Security (Tyler Lively/YouTube) 1. Queen’s University instructed security officers to rip down a free speech wall in a student centre because it “allegedly included language that constituted...
View ArticleCultural barbaric practices here and there
NDP immigration critic Jinny Sims recently revealed that she is uncomfortable with the revised edition of the Welcome to Canada guide—a 146-page document compiled by Citizenship and Immigration Canada...
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Queen’s v. Kingston, chants of racism at McGill & puppies
1. The city council of Kingston, Ont. has been accused of disregarding university students as it redraws electoral boundaries. Council voted that three of the 13 municipal electoral districts near...
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Different shades of racism in South Africa
Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Mido Macia went to South Africa in search of a better life. The 27-year-old Mozambican was working as a taxi driver in a poor suburb of Benoni, a city famous for being the...
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Student wrong to skip assignment over historical racism
Dead Poets Society Remember the end of the film Dead Poets Society? When the students all stand up on their desks and cry “O Captain, My Captain!” as a tribute to the wronged and noble teacher Mr....
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Indigenous students meet challenges of journalism school
Ntawnis Elyse Piapot works for APTN New journalism school graduate Frank Molley, of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation in Quebec, recalls a humiliating experience while studying at St. Thomas University...
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What I think of Gilmour’s serious-white-guys-only policy
University of Toronto's Hart House Library (Jessica Darmanin) I don’t like Spenser’s Faerie Queene, but when I first taught Introduction to English Literature,there it was on my syllabus. I felt like I...
View ArticleUBC wants more cultural awareness of Indigenous concerns
VANCOUVER – A controversial chant based on the Disney movie “Pocahontas” used by students at the University of B.C. has set off a series of measures to help students better understand First Nations....
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Sexy Indian Princess costumes for sale on campus
On sale at McMaster (Jemma Wolfe/Silhouette) Every Halloween, student activists remind their peers that race-based costumes can offend. You may have seen the posters on campus. They say things like:...
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Dalhousie plans to paint over the real problem
Katrina Pyne Dalhousie University is planning a brute squad crackdown on the work of bathroom artists and desk scribblers. That’s because a reporter from Dalhousie’s student paper, The Gazette,...
View ArticleHateful tweets surprise professor who reported on sex chant
HALIFAX – A law professor who issued recommendations following a chant that glorified sex with underage girls at Saint Mary’s University said Tuesday he’s disappointed after members of the school’s...
View ArticleOttawa students tried to segregate whites from non-whites
Segregating white and non-white students may sound like an outdated idea, but that is what executives from the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa planned for their event to combat racism,...
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‘None of the above’ sweeps Windsor student elections
Adam Bednarick who made the “Vote None of the Above” Facebook page Student politicians running in the annual University of Windsor Students’ Alliance elections last week were surprised to learn that...
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McGill students rightly sorry for forcing student to say sorry
In one of the stranger stories to emerge out of higher education recently, a student group at McGill University has now backed off its earlier decision to force one of their own to apologize for...
View ArticleFrance and the tyranny of symbols
Here’s a heartwarming story about opposition politicians calling for the resignation or dismissal of a major country’s justice minister, for this offence: she did not join in the singing the national...
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Why the nostalgic headdress won’t go away
Photo by Gary Miller/WireImage/Getty Every year in June, almost 100,000 inebriated young people descend on a farm in Manchester, Tenn., for a music festival called Bonnaroo. Its lineup, which, this...
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Race to the bottom in Ferguson
At first glance, he might have been one of the hundreds of angry local residents who took to the streets last week in Ferguson, Mo., to protest the police shooting of Michael Brown. But those round,...
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