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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 5, 2023, 3:44 pm
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66115518
Canada man charged with terror over far-right videos
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> A man in the Canadian capital of Ottawa has been charged with
alleged ties to the Atomwaffen Division, an international
neo-Nazi terrorist group.
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> Patrick Gordon Macdonald, 26, faces terrorism and hate
propaganda charges, Canada's federal police force said.
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> It's the first time both counts have been brought in Canada
against someone accused of promoting violent far-right ideology,
according to the RCMP.
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> Mr Macdonald is alleged to have participated in, produced and
distributed three videos for Atomwaffen Division, promoting its
ideology.
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> Atomwaffen and many other white nationalist groups subscribe
to a philosophy known as accelerationism - a belief that society
is inherently unstable and that they should push for a
revolutionary collapse of the system.
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> According to the Canadian federal government, the Atomwaffen
Division - founded in the US in 2013 - "calls for acts of
violence against racial, religious, and ethnic groups, and
informants, police, and bureaucrats, to prompt the collapse of
society".
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> It has branches in countries including the US, the UK, Germany
and Canada, and "members have also carried out violent acts at
public rallies, including the August 2017 rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia", the site of a deadly white
nationalist protest.
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> The far-right is also fragmented in Canada, he told the BBC,
with members often changing affiliations to evade police or
because of infighting, making it a "continuous challenge to
track and monitor [them]" for police.
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> In 2022, the RCMP arrested a 19-year-old in the province of
Ontario after he filed an online application to join the
Atomwaffen Division.
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> In the US, Brandon Russell, 27, founder of the Atomwaffen
Division, faces charges of plotting to attack power
installations around Baltimore.
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> He and his co-accused, Sarah Clendaniel, 34, were arrested
before the alleged attack was carried out. Both have pleaded not
guilty.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 7, 2023, 3:35 pm
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HTML https://news.yahoo.com/report-anti-black-racism-dominates-200622594.html
It's OK for the labor market to be "white"
Report: Anti-Black racism dominates Canada’s labor market
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> Despite some progress, said the recent report’s co-author,
Grace-Edward Galabuzi, “Black workers continue to bear a
disproportionate burden of employment inequality.”
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> Higher earnings and lower unemployment rates in 2022 reduced
the employment gap in Canada between employees of color and
white workers, but reports indicate the nation’s anti-Black
racism dominated its labor market.
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> According to The Toronto Star, the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives analysis, issued Wednesday, revealed that the
benefits of the epidemic recovery, such as salary increases,
have not been equally dispersed for employees of color, with the
income and employment gap between Black people and their white
counterparts in Canada widening.
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> “Despite some progress for racialized workers as a whole,
Black workers continue to bear a disproportionate burden of
employment inequality,” said report co-author Grace-Edward
Galabuzi, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor. “These
data demonstrate the need for continued policy efforts to combat
anti-Black racism in the workplace.”
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> Black and racialized men across Canada still earn less than
their white counterparts, despite wages rising during the
pandemic, while Black and racialized women also face significant
obstacles.
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> “There’s a structural problem here that starts with our
education system,” Galabuzi maintained, The Star reported.
“Especially with Black youth, they’re not encouraged to go into
higher-earning professions in the same way as their white
counterparts, and tackle prejudices in grade school and
post-secondary education.”
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 7, 2023, 3:53 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/radio/100-years-after-exclusion-act-anti-chinese-racism-in-canada-remains-1.6882957
100 years after Exclusion Act, anti-Chinese racism in Canada
remains
It's OK for anti-Chinese racism to be "white"
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> In 1923, the Canadian government passed what is now referred
to as the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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> It banned almost all Chinese immigration to Canada. It was an
escalation of the head tax implemented in 1885 — after more than
17,000 Chinese labourers had helped build the Canadian Pacific
Railway. Along with having to pay $50 — and then $500 by 1905 —
to enter Canada, Chinese people were also denied the right to
vote, hold public office, own land and work certain jobs.
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> While those anti-Chinese policies are a thing of the past, Yu
said Asian-Canadians continue to experience racism today.
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> "Those exclusions and those denials of humanity… it's not just
about, oh, Chinese couldn't vote. There's also a kind of
second-class citizenship and second-class humanity that they
were allocated to," Yu said.
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> Lee arrived in Canada when he was 12 years old, said Anderson.
He paid off the $500 head tax by washing dishes at a restaurant
in Ontario, and then by maintaining the Canadian Pacific Railway
— the same railway that around 1,000 Chinese labourers from a
previous generation had died building.[Canadian martyrs]
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> The government of Canada also offered family members of head
tax payers $20,000 in redress. But for some families, a symbolic
apology and payment would never suffice.
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> Anti-Asian racism in Canada has surged during the COVID-19
pandemic. Last year, a survey by the Chinese Canadian National
Council Toronto Chapter (CNCTO) and a grassroots organization
called Project 1907 found that there were 943 reports of racist
incidents across Canada in 2021 — a 47 per cent increase over
2020.
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> For some Asian-Canadians, the racism is also internalized.
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> Toronto lawyer Kate Shao grew up in Winnipeg. Her father came
to Canada in the late '80s and tried almost too hard to
assimilate, she said. He drove a pickup truck, listened to
country music, and would respond in English if people spoke to
him in Chinese.
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> "He thought — and I did for the longest time as well — that if
we never acknowledged the fact that we are Chinese, maybe people
wouldn't notice," Shao said.
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> For years, Shao grappled with the shame she felt about being
Chinese. During the pandemic, she said strangers would tell her
the COVID-19 virus was her fault, and to go back to her country.
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> When Shao learned about Canada's history of anti-Chinese
racism, something clicked.
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> "The historical legacies of racism — the Exclusion Act, the
head tax — puts what happened in the last three years in
context, and quite frankly, they make perfect sense," she said.
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> Being the 'perpetual foreigner'
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> Canada has a long history of scapegoating the Asian community
for societal problems, said Yu, pointing to Japanese internment
during the Second World War as just one example.
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> This history could also explain why, as allegations of foreign
interference in Canadian elections surface, some Chinese
Canadian politicians might have felt the need to defend
themselves as loyal Canadian citizens, Yu said.
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> Alison Gu, a city councillor in Burnaby, B.C., and Der's
partner, said Chinese Canadians are often made to feel like the
"perpetual foreigner," no matter how long they've been in this
country.
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> In a statement in May, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said: "As
we reflect with regret on the shameful legacy of the Chinese
Exclusion Act, we recommit to learning from the mistakes of our
past to do better today.
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> While Yu said he applauds the government for investing in the
museum, he questions the characterization of the Chinese
Exclusion Act as a "mistake."
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> "These were actually conscious, deliberate, planned, effective
acts," he said.
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> "It was an efficient implementation of white supremacy. And
that full power of the state didn't end with the 1923 Exclusion
Act."
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> "We are still living those legacies."
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Trying to assimilate into a racist "white" supremacist society
is a futile effort, one must create and establish ones own
living space, and be prepared to defend it.
HTML https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-when-can-chinese-canadians-stop-being-foreigners-in-our-home/
When can Chinese Canadians stop being foreigners in our home?
When all "white" supremacist's are exterminated.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 7, 2023, 4:01 pm
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HTML https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-popular-quebec-tv-host-denise-bombardier-spoke-out-against-immigration/
Popular Quebec TV host Denise Bombardier spoke out against
immigration and gay marriage
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> Ms. Bombardier, who died in Montreal on July 4 from cancer at
the age of 82, were indicative of her outspoken style during a
career in journalism and literature that spanned over 50 years.
A celebrity host and interviewer on Radio-Canada, Ms. Bombardier
was a passionate Quebec nationalist and promoter of the French
language, who hung out with politicians and famously had an
affair with one, the future Quebec premier, Lucien Bouchard.
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> After flirting with the left as a student, Ms. Bombardier
moved increasingly to the right as she aged, becoming a harsh
critic of Canada’s open-door policy door toward immigrants,
attacking Muslims, gay marriage and drag queens, becoming
nostalgic for a Canada where Quebec had a bigger political role.
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> Politicians of all stripes praised her legacy, including Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau, whom Ms. Bombardier treated with
disdain, calling him “an actor” whose goal was to destroy French
Quebec with uncontrolled immigration. Mr. Trudeau praised her
contributions and called her “tenacious, passionate, intelligent
and courageous.”
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> she was “rigorous in her analysis and forthright in her
opinions. No one was left in doubt what she thought.”
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> In her column in Le Journal de Montréal, which she wrote from
2014 to May of this year, Ms. Bombardier frequently lashed out
at changes in society, attacking immigration, Muslims, gays and
drag queens. Her columns led to frequent complaints to Quebec
Press Council, which issued several rulings for inappropriate
comments or failing to check her facts.
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> n a 2021 column on gang violence in Montreal, Ms. Bombardier
blamed authorities for not learning lessons from Toronto, which
she said was the Canadian city that had suffered the most from
what she called “racial criminality.” She claimed that this
violent crime resulted from impossibility of meeting the
enormous challenges “when it comes to the social integration of
immigrants.” The implication was that immigration led to
criminality, which the press council said Ms. Bombardier had
failed to prove.
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> “Denise was indeed a conservative person. There was no sudden
turn in her feelings and opinions. It just got more intense as
she got older,”
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 9, 2023, 5:56 pm
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Hate crimes on the rise in Canada’s capital city
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> Police in Ottawa are sounding the alarm over a significant
rise in hate crimes in the city. Since January, there have been
over 200 hate-motivated incidents.
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> “We’re six months in, so it’s around 30-35 files that are
coming into our office,” says Sgt. Ali Toghrol of the Ottawa
Police Service.
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> As Easton Hamm reports, it’s an alarming trend being seen
right across the country.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 10, 2023, 6:48 pm
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It's OK for tokenism to be "white"
National Indigenous leader calls meeting with premiers
'tokenistic'
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> Métis National Council President Cassidy Caron met with the
premiers at their annual summer meeting but says the event needs
to be transformed to allow for meaningful discussions with the
provinces and Indigenous communities within their jurisdictions.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 11, 2023, 4:37 pm
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HTML https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/07/11/olivia-chow-is-being-blamed-for-toronto-violence-before-she-officially-becomes-mayor.html
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> Olivia Chow is being blamed for Toronto violence before she
officially becomes mayor
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> Days before Olivia Chow is set to take office, people on
twitter were already blaming her for incidents of violence in
the city.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 17, 2023, 3:26 pm
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HTML https://broadview.org/homeless-refugees-toronto/
The homeless refugee crisis in Toronto illustrates Canada’s
broken promises
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> Canadians live in a time of threadbare morality. Nowhere is
this more obvious than in Toronto’s entertainment district,
where partygoers delight in spending disposable income while
skirting refugees sleeping on sidewalks. The growing pile of
luggage at the downtown corner of Peter and Richmond streets
resembles the lost baggage section at Pearson airport but is the
broken-hearted terminus at the centre of a cruel city.
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> The lack of federal generosity and finger-pointing by the city
has orchestrated a moral crisis. It’s reminiscent of the crisis
south of the border, where Texas governor Greg Abbott keeps
bussing migrants to cities located in northern Democratic
states. Without the necessary resources, information, and
sometimes the language skills needed to navigate the
bureaucratic mazes, those who fled turbulent homelands for
Canada have become political pawns.
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> But Torontonians haven’t always been this callous.
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> In Ireland Park, at Lake Ontario’s edge, five statues of gaunt
and grateful refugees gaze at their new home: Toronto circa
1847. These statues honour a time when Toronto, with a
population of only 20,000 people, welcomed 38,500
famine-stricken migrants from Ireland.[It's OK for refugees to
be "white"] It paralleled the “Come From Away” event of 9/11 in
Gander, N.L., where the population doubled overnight, and the
people discovered there was indeed more than enough for all. It
was a time when the city lived up to its moniker as “Toronto,
The Good.”
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> Now, as a wealthy city of three million people, the city’s
residents are tasked with supporting far fewer newcomers. Can we
not recognize the absurdity in claiming scarcity?
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> Those of us who attend weekly worship services, irrespective
of our faith, recognize the obligation to assist the poor.
Judgment depends not on the accrual of personal wealth, but on
our capacity to love our neighbour. The greatness of the city’s
soul will be measured by its capacity for mercy. Refusing to
shelter refugees to make a point is morally bankrupt.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 18, 2023, 3:22 pm
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/9839428/winnipeg-muslim-community-investigation-olive-garden-stabbing-hijabi-woman/
It's OK for police investigations to be "white"
Winnipeg’s Muslim community calls for investigation into Olive
Garden stabbing of hijabi woman
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> Winnipeg’s Muslim community is looking for answers after one
of its members, an 18-year-old woman, was stabbed on the job
last month while working at the Olive Garden restaurant on
Regent Avenue.
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> Muslim leaders spoke at a press conference Tuesday morning to
call for a “fulsome investigation” into the attack and whether
it was targeted due to the Black, hijab-wearing victim’s
identity.
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> The stabbing led to the arrest of a 27-year-old man with a
lengthy rap sheet, including multiple arson charges, as well as
convictions for mischief, theft and failing to comply with
probation orders.
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> challenged the police assertion that the stabbing appeared to
be random and unprovoked, and said police went public with the
charges without first speaking to the victim, who was then in
hospital recovering.
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> The victim, in her statement, said she was the only person of
colour in the restaurant at the time of the attack, and felt the
accused was staring at her for a long period of time prior to
the incident.
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> “I think the community has a number of concerns regarding the
ways the investigation was completed,” Khan said.
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> “We… still have important questions about the attack. Why did
Winnipeg police reach a conclusion about motivation before
getting a statement? Why was there a charge of aggravated
assault in what was clearly an attempted murder case?”
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> law enforcement and government officials need to be held to
higher standards in situations like this.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: guest98
Date: August 3, 2023, 2:52 pm
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HTML https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/black-community-groups-say-tdsb-principal-s-suicide-is-being-used-to-villainize-and-undermine/article_744ad4b7-e325-5b1a-a7c6-717b69f7c330.html
It's OK for suicide to be "white"
Black community groups say TDSB principal’s suicide is being
used to ‘villainize and undermine’ anti-racism training
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> A coalition of Black community organizations is calling on the
province to reaffirm its commitment to anti-racism training in
education and publicly denounce “attempts to undermine or halt
these efforts” in the wake of the suicide of a former principal
who claimed he was bullied during an anti-racism training
session two years ago.
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> “There is an active campaign to villainize and undermine
anti-racism work in this province,”
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> Orughu said the recent death of former Toronto District School
Board principal Richard Bilkszto should not be linked to the
anti-Black racism training sessions he attended in the spring of
2021.
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> “It is clear to us that his death has been used as a rallying
point for right-wing opponents to dismantle the necessary and
imperative anti-racism work,” he said.
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> Bilkszto, a 60-year-old retired principal, sued the TDSB
earlier this year, alleging his reputation was “systematically
demolished” during two virtual, anti-Black racism training
sessions where, after he challenged some of the speaker’s
comments, he said he was singled out and accused of supporting
white supremacy.
>
> Since Bilkszto’s death was made public by his lawyer, the
story has garnered international media attention and has been
seized upon by groups that oppose diversity, equity and
inclusion programs.
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> Kike Ojo-Thompson, the CEO of KOJO Institute, said in a
statement last week that she “welcomed” a review by the Ministry
of Education, adding that Bilkszto’s death is “being weaponized
to discredit and suppress the work of everyone committed to
diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
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> Also speaking at Wednesday’s event was Deborah
Buchanan-Walford, president of the Ontario National Alliance of
Black School Educators. She said the Black community stands
behind Ojo-Thompson, who led the training sessions attended by
Bilkszto and has faced online threats and harassment.
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> Buchanan-Walford said the community will not allow
Ojo-Thompson to be “lynched” and “chastised” for “leading the
community groundwork” that keeps Black children and youth safe.
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