2025: “Piece of Shit” PM Carney, dutiful to Adolf Orange, attacking DEI in Canada too.
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Tristin Hopper wrote a piece in today’s National Pest, alleging that EDI is the enemy of merit-based selection.
This is ignorant of him, and many others.
Why? Because merit-based selection NEVER existed, even before EDI was a thing.
Let me explain why in this thread.
Ask yourself: are these selections merit-based?
- Justin Trudeau after Pierre Trudeau
- George W Bush after George Bush
- Lisa Marie Presley after Elvis Presley
Of course not. Years before EDI selection was heavily based NOT on merit, but on connections, or being “in” while others are “out”.
So whenever someone calls EDI the opposite of merit, right there you know the speaker has an IQ hovering around room temperature (in Celsius). What’s a smarter way of thinking about this?
Start with biology.
For example, 50% of human brains are in female bodies. If all brains have an equal chance of being smart, then if you hire less than 50% of women, you disproportionately leave smart brains aside for no reason other than their female packaging.
That’s not merit!
You can apply this biological-mathematical lens to radicalized persons, disabled persons, Indigenous persons, and so on. Therefore, having equity targets makes sense. All other factors being equal, it will always get you more smart brains than any other strategy.
But all other factors are NOT equal in real life.
For example, Indigenous people are deeply discriminated against. They are poorer as a result. Being poorer means fewer nutritious meals and worse schooling, which affect selection in later life.
EDI helps levels that unfairness, as is just.
That’s what EDI is all about. Giving people who are not “in” today the chance to be “in” tomorrow, in a world where merit-based selection is and forever was an illusion.
That is why I think anyone opposed to it is simply a shallow thinker, and not to be taken seriously. …
It’s pretty funny when (white, male) Albertans call equity and human rights “Alberta’s business.”
Wrong, dumbshit. Human rights are HUMAN business. Alberta isn’t special.
Yesterday I posted about the University of Alberta trying to eliminate EDI. Someone now shared this link of Laval University in Quebec trying the same.
The two most backwards, MAGA-leaning provinces of Canada, fighting against human rights. Classic. https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/SRSR/Brief/BR13533884/br-external/Jointly01-067-241216-034-e.pdf
Note to the man-children at Laval who wrote that whiny memo: La discrimination est illégale dans les deux langues officielles, et vous n’êtes pas spéciale.
@allenk81.bsky.social Feb 8, 2026:
FAMU can’t use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI.
Black students can’t use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
@amirattaran.bsky.social Feb 9, 2026:
I’ve been saddened today to learn that the University of Alberta is going down MAGA road and wants to abolish Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
So I’ve written to University President Bill Flanagan, warning him of the legal risks. Because the University may need suing.
Here is the CBC News story by Emily Williams warning of this appalling decision on the University of Alberta’s part.
I strongly urge faculty, staff, and students at the University of Alberta to bring a human rights challenge at the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
Win or lose (probably win) the University and UCP would hate to have their dirty laundry aired in public. So do it.
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Naturally some folks don’t like EDI. How to break it to Mr Mike Varey that I am a vegetarian?
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Yeah. Specifically, the “woke is ruining science”, “there is only one way of knowing: western science”, “genitals, genitals, gametes, gametes” racist, sexist, fragile transphobes — several of whom are also sex pests.
@nature.com:
Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known.
go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2
Dr. Jey McCreight @jeymccreight.bsky.social:
@nature.com you claim that Krauss had “no knowledge” of Epstein’s crimes until after 2018, but there is absolute proof that he was defending Epstein as early as 2011, after he had already been convicted in 2008
This is documented in the Epstein files and here:
www.patreon.com/posts/143888…
@nature.com You also erroneously claim that “Mentions of hte researchers do not indicate wrongdoing or involvement in Epstein’s criminal activity” But many files clearly show the opposite, like Epstein telling Krauss “you suck at this sex harassment game”
It is a moral and journalist failure of @nature.com to interview Epstein associated with long, detailed, well documented histories of sexual harassment and take their words at face value
While putting no effort into researching the Epstein files or reaching out to victims
Shame on you
Krauss is the scientist I know the most history about because he is the one who threatened to sue me for naming him as having sexually harassed or assaulted multiple women I knew and trusted
And I’m certain the wave of rape and death threats and stalking I received after was due to Epstein
I’m sure there are other victims who know more about the other scientists listed, who also have these sorts of known histories
We need a journalist with integrity who believes women to do a proper investigation of Epstein’s scientific connections
@theserfstv.bsky.social:
Isn’t it super random that all of the “anti-woke” cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?
@dragondumpling.bsky.social:
Lawrence Krauss recently published a very embarrassing book called “The War On Science”, which is more or less a who’s who on his social circle of scumbags and Epstein orbiters. It’s mainly an anti-woke screed with multiple contributors…all disgraced in some way, all bigots, many of them sex pests.
@dragondumpling.bsky.social:
Also, it feels more clear now why Dawkins is recently taken to calling himself a “cultural Christian” instead of an atheist.
They’re cozying up to the right wing. This has been a very deliberate political project by the lot of them.
@pyslexicdharmacist.bsky.social:
Once upon a time, Dawkins encouraged me to proudly call myself an atheist. I hope he sticks with this “cultural Christian” bullshit. He’s done more than enough to make atheists look terrible.
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social:
it is funny that the war on science was not about weakening healthcare and the growing antivax movement but instead people saying IQ wasnt important
@thewearybard.bsky.social:
Or trans people existing
Or the Me Too movement
@detacheddave.bsky.social:
lol, also I love that each of the essays in this book are hardly presenting a “war on science”, but instead a “war on ME and my precious feelings”.
@bradicality.bsky.social:
David Roth said something about anti-woke cancel culture academics like “the files are full of guys with difficult-to-maintain hairstyles that have written airport books” and I keep thinking about it
@transnews.network:
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger.
@madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.
Trans people tried to warn the world about Epstein, but no one listened. Maybe now they finally will, and turn away from anti-trans figures closely associated with one of the most horrific human traffickers in history.
@pastella.bsky.social:
Oh look, all of Rowling’s besties :-)
Dr. Jey McCreight @jeymccreight.bsky.social:
I’m the feminist/atheist blogger that originally wrote about Krauss when I was a grad student. He threatened to sue me & I was harassed out of blogging by a wave of rape and death threats
Still can’t believe Epstein is behind so much of my trauma
I’m writing a response, so stay tuned I guess
@brainmist.bsky.social:
If you dehumanize and disenfranchise a population, it becomes much easier to exploit and abuse them.
Thus why in my view, the billionaires and Nazis Mark Carney, Danielle Smith, Pierre Poilievre, Steve Harper, Trump and his kid raping regime, Bill Flanagan etc. are mass murdering DEI.
@kokuthehuman.bsky.social:
Didn’t these bastards literally say as much in the Epstein’s emails?
@gabrielmilland.bsky.social:
This really is a very good piece. I think quite a lot lies behind it. First that the actual education of the likes of Musk etc is very superficial. Just enough Western Civ classes at elite universities for them to persuade themselves that they are talented intellects without any deep study.
@nornirnlib.bsky.social:
Think the growth of the manosphere & supposedly highbrow, multi hour long podcasts taps into the same vacuousness. A bubble of people telling themselves how worthy & intelligent they are.
Was it always the case that the wealthy failed to appreciate some of their status is due to contingency & luck?
@joelsftw.bsky.social:
Again, this is the least surprising thing again to read from the Epstein files. This and the whole anti woke movements stemmed from him. Which again, not surprising.
@andiewinnipeg.bsky.social:
New documents show while the University of Alberta was under mass budget cuts that resulted in layoffs and a 100% cut to child care funding, the president was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel
Expenses have doubled since he took office
U of A president’s expenses higher than previous president and other institutions – The Gateway, President and Vice-chancellor Bill Flanagan spent $506,901.01 on travel and hospitality in his first term, higher than other presidents.
The president’s expenses have increased by 294 per cent. In fact, his expenses outweigh the total spending of ALL executives at the University of Manitoba combined.
The president of the U of M spent $37,563.13. Flanagan’s expenses totalled $199,414.60 in the same period.
His final travel bills, including a trip to Palm Springs, far outweigh the estimated costs.
Bombshell reporting by @leahhennig.bsky.social and the @thegateway.bsky.social
Files from Alberta investigative journalist @charlesrusnell.bsky.social
@travisfigures.bsky.social:
That’s an insane amount of money on travel.
There should be a resignation. Sharpish.
@joho.bsky.social:
Michael Shermer used to be a skeptic hero.
Today, he is a MAHA enabler, obsessed with strangers’ genitals and endangering trans people to get attention on social media.
I want to lead by example and prove to him it’s possible to not talk about trans people constantly.
@clairezagorski.bsky.social:
Yet another example of predators hiding in academia.
This is an excellent report by The Daily Texan and student Justin Doud.
Former professor Thomas Hubbard appears in the Epstein files asking for $10,000 to set up a conference meant to challenge the notion of consent and sexual assault.
U of A staff, students speak out against move to axe EDI from hiring policy, School says equity, diversity and inclusion policy wasn’t always achieving its goals by Emily Williams, CBC News, Feb 09, 2026
The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy.
The move comes a year after the school’s president announced the U of A was moving away from the term, saying it had become polarizing for some.For Nazis and other inhumane humans?
“If you oppose “DEI,” you should have to use the full phrase instead of the letters. Be brave and say, “I opposed diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Bonus points if you admit which part you don’t like.
Making it an acronym transforms it into a thought-terminating cliche.
From now on, be proud of your opinions, but be specific. Let everyone know if it’s diversity you don’t like, or if it’s equity, or if it’s being inclusive.”
In the current university recruitment policy, the recommendation is when two candidates are similarly qualified for a position, hiring panels should favour candidates from historically under-represented groups.
A draft recruitment policy heading to the board of governors for approval removes that practice and eliminates references to the university’s commitments to correct employment disadvantages.
The university said in a statement that the policy has been through extensive consultations since June 2025.
“While the current policy includes aspirational language about fair recruitment and the removal of barriers, the university has found in practice that qualified candidates may still face barriers,” it read.
How some organizations are changing course on equity, diversity and inclusion initiativesThe university said the proposed new policy is intended as a step toward addressing that issue.
But some members of the university say they worry it shows a lack of transparency and walks back commitments.
The issue was discussed at a general faculties council where Lise Gotell, a professor of women’s and gender studies, tabled a motion opposing it, which council passed.Bravo!
Gotell told CBC News the board of governors ultimately gets the final say, but matters such as academic hiring have historically been left up to the general faculties council.
She said academics should have been consulted and she was surprised to see the issue on the agenda.
“We just had this rationale that basically said, ‘Oh, we’re just streamlining policy.’ And you had to click through to actually find out that the fundamental change was the elimination of EDI,” she said.
She said she worries institutional autonomy is being diminished.
“I do believe that there’s been pressure by the government on post-secondaries to abandon EDI policies,” Gotell said. “Because it’s not really clear to me why we would be abandoning a framework that we just put in place six years ago.”Racist Harper’s racist Carney is also against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Nazis, like their pals in the kid raping Trump regime. I bet Carney dropped a few pressures too.
Alberta panel suggests new post-secondary funding model, institutional neutralityKristine Smitka, vice president of the Association of Academic Staff of the University of Alberta, said the union was consulted on the policy, but the employer did not incorporate any suggested revisions.
“What we’re hearing is a very consistent alarm from our members that what they’re seeing in this policy revision is part of a larger backlash against EDI initiatives,” Smitka said.
A spokesperson for the province said decisions about recruitment and hiring are the responsibility of post-secondary institutions and their boards.yes, but threats of funding cuts work fabulously at bossing cowards like Flanagan around
Ajibola Adigun decided to attend the University of Alberta, in part, because of its commitments to equity and fighting anti-black racism. The third-year PhD student in the faculty of education also sits on GFC.
Adigun said he was reassured to see faculty reject the new policy, but is worried what message it could send if the board of governors approves it.
“There’s never been a time where merit was sacrificed on the altar of equity,” he said, pointing to the existing policy.
“So to suggest, then, that there needs to be removal of equity seems to buy into the stereotypes.”
Adigun said he believes the university is walking back its commitments.
How it started
A year ago, University of Alberta President Bill Flanagan wrote in a letter published in the Edmonton Journal that the school would no longer be using the language or framework of EDI. Instead, it created a new term: Access, community and belonging.
Gotell said Flanagan told GFC members at the time that the university was still committed to the work of EDI, but the language had become polarizing for some.Those damned Nazis are such fragile babies.
She said this draft recruitment policy seems to contradict that message.
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The end of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?“I was incredibly surprised that this was happening, but also about the manner in which it was happening,” she said.
Flanagan’s letter said the move to ‘access community and belonging’ was grounded in “extensive consultations with over 1,000 community members.”all of them Nazis and or Zionists?
CBC obtained the notes from those sessions through an access to information request.
The consultations spanning from fall 2023 to spring 2024 were part of forming a new EDI action plan for the university. They did not ask particular questions about a name change or eliminating EDI entirely.
Students and faculty were asked questions like, “What gets you excited about the future of EDI at the U of A? What keeps you up at night?”
Black psychologists fear EDI rollback within Canadian Psychological AssociationSome themes, the notes show, are burnout from some staff taking on EDI work, a need for more practical resources, and a lack of representation of women and Indigenous faculty and students in STEM fields.
Others expressed concern over whether the current environment of EDI at the university was making a difference, saying there is a lack of clarity on what it means in practice and increasing apathy and resistance.
“EDI statements are sometimes creative works of fiction — not really how people run their research groups,” one respondent said.
“Being worried or scared to say a joke or comment that will come back at you. Wanting to be yourself but also not offending people,” another participant told facilitators.
“Our language is a bit demonizing, turns people away. For example, on awards applications (cis white man) — is it forcing people to feel excluded.”
Others expressed worry that there’s a belief that equitable hiring practices mean lower standards.It’s a fucking university! Teach what EDI is and what it means. FFS
“It is always worrying when someone is hired under an EDI initiative — I worry about people showing them disrespect — suspicion among the faculty that this hire is getting in from the side door and not the front door.”
‘Fantastic work,’ chief of staff writes
Smitka said the university may be influenced by the Mintz report, a provincially appointed expert panel’s recommendations for Alberta post-secondaries. The panel wrote that, in order to continue receiving public funding, post-secondaries should commit to a culture of greater neutrality.
The Mintz panel wrote that the recommendation stems from concern that some perspectives are being silenced on campuses and people are being hired for reasons other than merit.
“We didn’t really see it as coincidental,” Smitka said.
The fall of EDI commitmentsRajan Sawhney, then-advanced education minister, told CBC News last year the university’s initial departure from EDI was made internally, but the government supported the move.
Emails obtained by CBC through an access to information request show that Flanagan’s newspaper letter was sent by the university’s government relations department to staff at the Ministry of Advanced Education before it was published.
“I’m writing to let you know that starting January 1, the Office of the Vice-President (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) will embrace a new name: Access, Community, and Belonging,” the email read.
“This evolution shifts our focus from acronyms to outcomes, and is the result of inclusive consultations.”
Sawhney’s chief of staff expressed approval in a response back.
“The changes are very well received. U of A has done fantastic work on this. Really well done,” the December 2024 email read.
A statement from Neil Singh, press secretary for the minister of advanced education, said the ministry is still reviewing the Mintz panel recommendations — but repeated that internal policies are up to post-secondaries and their boards.
“The university did not seek approval from the government regarding proposed changes to its recruitment policy, nor is such approval required.”
The policy will go to a board of governors for approval in March.
@duffieldharding.bsky.social:
FFS. SMH. Alberduh at it again.
Alberta panel suggests new post-secondary funding model, institutional neutrality, Panel report released Thursday made 11 recommendations by Nicholas Frew, CBC News, Oct 09, 2025
A panel that studied Alberta’s post-secondary institutions has released its recommendations, which include replacing the funding framework, providing more assistance like grants and scholarships to students, and ensuring institutions remain neutral in policies and practices.
The report, shared publicly Thursday afternoon, stems from the province’s expert panel on post-secondary institution funding and Alberta’s competitiveness. The five-member panel, chaired by Jack Mintz, was appointed last November after the federal government announced policies capping international student admissions.
The panel assessed the provincial funding model to public post-secondary institutions and independent academic institutions — that is, privately run schools that receive provincial dollars, such as The King’s University, a Christian school in Edmonton. The panel was also asked to examine the ability of Alberta’s post-secondary institutions to compete on a global level.
“We hope the recommendations in this report will serve as the starting point for transformational changes in how post-secondary education is funded,” the report states, noting that it’s up to the Ministry of Advanced Education to act on them.
The ministry will be reviewing the report, and plans to discuss its findings and recommendations as well as next steps with post-secondary institutions, the provincial government said in a news release Thursday that announced the report’s release.
Advanced Education Minister Myles McDougall thanked the panel for its service, saying the recommendations will help his government figure out how to make sure the post-secondary system is sustainable.
The recommendations target a range of topics including: post-secondary funding; tuition; institutional governance and reducing red tape; and neutrality and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
The latter, the report notes, stems from concerns raised that some perspectives are being silenced on campuses, and that people are being admitted to and hired by these schools for reasons other than merit.
The panel supports programs that accommodate Indigenous peoples, the report says. But the report’s authors worry that schools are “losing the public’s support in the area of DEI and when post-secondary institutions take political positions on controversial issues,” which they say challenges the position that campuses are a place for open debate.Such bullshit spews from Jack Minz et al
According to the panel’s report, the neutrality recommendation hinges on the University of Chicago’s Kalven Report. Published in 1967 amid protests in the U.S. against the Vietnam war, that report states that a neutral university offers the “fullest freedom,” thus such schools must not take collective action or express political or social opinions, unless its mission or “values of free inquiry” are threatened.
But DEI programs have recently become a hot-button political issue due to U.S. government cuts, including threatened funding freezes to some post-secondary institutions.Ya, and some words such as listed below are now verbotten in Nazi Zionist USA’s institutions!
Anti-Racism
Racism
Allyship
Bias
DEI
Diversity
Diverse
Confirmation Bias
Equity
Equitableness
Feminism
Gender
Gender Identity
Inclusion
All-Inclusive
Inclusivity
Injustice
Intersectionality
Prejudice
Privilege
Racial Identity
Sexuality
Stereotypes
Pronouns
Transgender
Equality
Even some organizations within Alberta made changes to them this year, including the University of Alberta. In January, that post-secondary institution announced that it created a new framework to move away from the language of DEI due to polarization, opting instead to use the terms access, community and belonging.
Premier Danielle Smith, meanwhile, has previously raised concerns about self-censorship on campus, and recently — through a mandate letter — tasked McDougall with assessing a need for legislation that addresses free speech and academic freedom.
“We are concerned by reports of a culture in institutions that leads some from outside that culture to self-censor or otherwise withdraw from discussion and debate, thus diminishing the intellectual diversity that should thrive in higher education,” the panel’s report says.
“In order to continue to receive public funding, post-secondary institutions must commit to reversing this culture and to affirm their commitment to this freedom.”
The panel recommends that the provincial government should expect all public post-secondary institutions to remain neutral, and uphold freedom of expression and intellectual diversity. Schools, the report says, should not implement policies and practices that infringe on equality rights and the freedom from discrimination, per the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta Human Rights Act.
“This is just neo-liberalism on steroids,” said Ubaka Ogbogu, a professor in the University of Alberta law faculty.
Ogbogu disagreed with the report’s neutrality section on multiple points. But in particular, he said he feels it misframes the relationship between DEI programs and merit.
“When you are promoting inclusion, … you’re trying to remove structural barriers to allow people, who wouldn’t normally have access, to enter into these institutions,” he said.
“It doesn’t mean that people we are bringing in are weaker in any way, or they lack merit in the meritocracy. Even people who are deserving don’t get a chance.”
New funding model should have 3 parts: panel
The current post-secondary funding model should be replaced by a framework that factors enrolment, performance and base funding, the panel report says.
Currently, the provincial dollars that schools receive are based primarily on historical funding levels that are adjusted annually through the Alberta government’s budgeting process, the report says.
It says the government, instead, should base funding on:
- Institution enrolment, which would factor program costs, market demand and government priorities.
- Performance, thus recognizing and rewarding positive outcomes, such as research and community impact.
- Base funding, which addresses other costs, such as salaries, maintenance and student services.
Through that framework, the government should also set “targeted, time-limited” funds to attract researchers, support innovation and offer incentives and support for collaboration between institutions, the report says.
Should the government want to move forward with the new funding model, the panel suggests phasing it in over the next five years. In its report, the panel acknowledged that implementation will require more money to respond to enrolment growth and cost pressures, and to ensure a smooth transition.
David Eggen, the Opposition’s advanced education critic, said in a statement that he’s worried enrolment-based funding will disproportionately affect smaller colleges.
But the University of Calgary’s students’ union is “cautiously optimistic” that the government will change its model, said Julia Law, its vice-president external.
The students’ union has pushed for that for several years, and raised this issue — and others — to the post-secondary panel, she said.
“We’re honestly looking forward to seeing what the provincial government does in terms of the recommendations,” Law said.
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@andiewinnipeg.bsky.social:
The University of Alberta is celebrating the inaugural TIME Magazine rankings, which places it 75th globally and 3rd in Canada.
But @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found that established QS World University Rankings tells a more concerning story about the university’s recent developments.
During the years the NDP was in power, the university was consistently ranked within the world’s top 100. But since UCP came into power it has been ranked below the top 100 for 6 consecutive years.
After the NDP took office, they restored the higher education budget that was cut by the PC government.
This budget steadily increased between 2016 and 2018. Domestic tuition was frozen. A legislation was passed to prevent the arbitrary increase of international tuition.
The UCP began cutting postsecondary budgets and gave green light for tuition hikes in 2019.
Both domestic and international tuition at the UofA has been raised for more than 30% since 2020. Hiring at the university has been frozen, and services like child care have been cut.
The UCP also attempted to censor research topics and funding.
Alberta’s Bill 18: Who gets the most federal research funding? Danielle Smith might be surprised by what the data shows, The ideological war waged by Smith will only endanger high-quality research void of political interference from the government.
The university achieved its highest QS rankings from 2008 to 2010 (78th to 59th globally) when Ed Stelmach (PC) was still the premier.
From 2007 to 2009, the PC government kept increasing the budget for postsecondary education despite the 2008 financial crisis. The 2010 postsecondary budget remained at the 2009 level.
@rastus01.bsky.social:
Marlaina is destroying our public education system, just like Canadian HC. We were acknowledged, world wide, for both.
Marlaina’s “ungoverning” has resulted in increasing costs for insurance, max muni taxes, loss of govt services esp Srs & disabled, environment ignored, I could list hundreds of ways the UCP has wasted BILLIONS of $.
The other is the lack of responsibility & transparency w/private bidding/contracts, real estate transactions & conflicts of interest. No wonder PGuthrie left when he did. I believe in our justice system (for now). The truth will come out eventually.
@andiewinnipeg.bsky.social:
New story on the devastating consequences from the University of Alberta slashing 100% of the child care budget
Cuts to staffing and other programming for children is happening after decades of beneficial partnerships, causing irreparable harm.
All for 0.0154% of the budget!
As noted in this article, we sent an open letter to the Board of Governors asking them to rescind the decision to cut 100% of the funding and reinstate the commitee.
I received a response from the Chair that none of this is their purview.
Today, Student Parents on Campus at the University of Alberta sent a formal letter to the Board of Governors requesting a reinstatement of the child care funding on campus.
It is co-signed by the major unions on campus.
The university slashed child care funding by 100%.
This letter was signed by every union on campus.
The university has decided to dig their heels in on this even though it is a minuscule amount of money, has directly harmed hundreds of people, impeded research and is in direct opposition to their stated goals.
Their response to this article is that they continue to offer “robust benefits for faculty and staff…as well as students who parent.”
This is such a blatant lie I am shocked it was issued as a formal response.
What a complete disaster.
thegatewayonline.ca/2026/02/univ…
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
U Ottawa is doing likewise. Extremely sexist and unwise.
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