“In math, let’s stick with math,” Ford told reporters on Thursday, a day after Canadian media outlets reported that language about racism and colonialism no longer appeared in an explanation of the curriculum on the provincial government’s website. “Other social issues, let’s talk about it, there’s no doubt, but let’s …
Read More »Spot-on Italy sink Spain in shootout to book place in Euro 2020 final after high-class heavyweight showdown at Wembley
A goal on 60 minutes from Federico Chiesa had looked like giving Italy a brilliant smash-and-grab win, but substitute Alvaro Morata emerged to equalize for Spain with 10 minutes of normal time remaining to send a pulsating game in London into extra time. The teams could not be separated, meaning …
Read More »Barring fans with AstraZeneca jab from Springsteen NY concert is treating them as second-class citizens – it’s a dangerous path
Trust America’s egotistical and imperial authorities to spark another “US vs. Them” battle. The decision not to recognise the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is not only unnecessary, but xenophobic. It’s been highlighted after a Canadian gentleman booked tickets to see Bruce Springsteen concert in New York next week, but then noticed …
Read More »‘Class cleansing’ is killing London, as poor people are removed from communities like vermin
Gentrification is not a new phenomenon but it is clear that it is out of control in London. As with many cities, it is a process the UK capital has been familiar with for some time. Poorer communities have been moved out of neighbourhoods in favour of a ‘better’ class …
Read More »Former Google employees who sued tech giant over gender pay gap win class action status in case estimated at $600 million
The Thursday ruling by the San Francisco Superior Court Judge Andrew Cheng, certifying a class-action status to the 2017 gender pay gap suit, was celebrated as a major victory by the plaintiffs. “This is HUGE,” Kelly Ellis, one of the women behind Ellis et al v. Google Inc. tweeted. A …
Read More »‘Porn literacy’ class at New York prep school leaves students and parents baffled
‘Pornography Literacy: An intersectional focus on mainstream porn’ was a course given to 120 male and female students (some in person, others by Zoom) and, according to the New York Post, was taught by Justine Ang Fonte, the Health & Wellness director at New York’s Dalton, who says on her …
Read More »Biden administration makes ‘gender identity’ a protected class in healthcare, forbids discrimination
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday that its Office of Civil Rights will consider discrimination based on “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as civil rights violations, under Title IX of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. …
Read More »The American Rescue Plan Act is not a paradigm shift for the working class – it is a band-aid on a gaping wound of inequality
In his first Rose Garden address since becoming US president, Joe Biden last week praised the passage of the $1.9trillion stimulus package known as the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). “It changes the paradigm,”he said. “For the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this …
Read More »Mississippi school asks students to ‘pretend to be slaves’ for class assignment, gets roasted for ‘whitewashing’ slavery
As part of a class project, eighth graders at Purvis Middle School were told to “pretend like you are a slave working on a Mississippi plantation” and to imagine their day-to-day lives, their journey to the United States and the type of labor they were forced to perform, among other …
Read More »TikTok agrees to $92mn settlement in class-action over alleged privacy breach of US users
The proposed settlement came to light in court documents filed in the US District Court in Illinois on Thursday. The settlement still needs court approval. The settlement, the result of 21 consolidated federal cases filed primarily on behalf of minors – some as young as six – applies to 89 …
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