Jamie Sarkonak @sarkonakj Twitter profile

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Jamie Sarkonak

@sarkonakj

2 months

This means that even the *grandchildren* of birth-tourism babies, whose grandparents' only connection to Canada is a passport, can become citizens as long as mom or dad has lived here for a few years. It's such an irresponsible policy.

Harrison Faulkner

@Harry__Faulkner

2 months

New Citizenship bill introduced by the Liberal government. Marc Miller: "As long as a Canadian parent who was born outside of Canada has accumulated three years of time spent in Canada before the birth of their child abroad, they will be able to pass down their citizenship."

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The framing of stay-at-home moms, who run households full-time, as non-participants in the economy is so disingenuous.

Liberal Party

@liberal_party

5 months

We’re delivering $10-a-day child care across Canada – making it easier for more women to return to the workforce and fully participate in our economy. Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives would cut our progress.

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Today, 18 of 20 job postings at Canada's Department of @NationalDefence give preference to women, disabled persons, visible minorities, and Indigenous people. This creates a strong bias against white, male, able-bodied candidates. Here's the posting for an engineer (more below):

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The classroom is a cluttered mess, overtly-political posters coat the walls (political in only one direction of course, so we know this isn't about "critical thinking"); there's even a poster that says sex work is just like normal work. And CTV is running defence for this?

Chanel Pfahl 🇨🇦

@ChanLPfa

4 months

Here’s the @CTVVancouver report on woke teacher Annie Ohana. I’m tempted to laugh this off and/or make a sarcastic comment, but honestly, what an utter tragedy that this is the state of our mainstream “news” right now. I know it’s not surprising in the least, but somehow I

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1 year

The Department of Canadian Heritage gave $500,000 to this organization to track "anti-trans organizing."

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3 months

The Canadian criminal justice system offers sentencing discounts to non-citizens to mitigate their risk of deportation. It's unfair. My column:

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada's criminal sentencing discounts for non-citizens are unfair

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

1 year

Some problems with this column:

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

1 year

A Toronto principal’s suicide was wrongly linked to anti-racism training. Here’s what was really said #Opinion by @ShreeParadkar

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Social justice scholars at Western University recently made a 90-page "toolkit" to help teachers integrate gender ideology into the classroom. It's loaded with inaccuracies about history and biology, but it's being circulated to teachers anyway. My column:

Jamie Sarkonak: 'Trans-affirming toolkit' tells teachers to put ideology above biology

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

10 months

This is a University of Toronto professor. I’m terrified to think of what kind of “decolonization” he’d support in Canada.

Uahikea Maile

@uahikea

10 months

As Hawaiians wake up to the news of Palestinian anticolonial resistance in Gaza to Israeli settler colonialism, remember that—from Hawaiʻi to Palestine—occupation is a crime. A lāhui that stands for decolonization and deoccupation should also stand behind freedom for Palestine.

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11 months

I can’t believe they’re dying on the hill of sex changes for children

Randy Boissonnault 🏳️‍🌈

@R_Boissonnault

11 months

The Conservative Party just passed a policy to bully & scare some of the most vulnerable young people in our society. Yet another example of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives trying to import far-right American-style politics to Canada. Not on our watch.

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In a brief to the House of Commons, about 40 Canadian university professors have recommended that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in federally funded research be abolished. My column on the good news:

Jamie Sarkonak: Finally some academic pushback to DEI nonsense

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

6 months

This is the biological equivalent of flat-Earth theory.

Edmonton Journal

@edmontonjournal

6 months

Opinion: Alberta's unproven gender-identity rules don't have kids' well-being at heart

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1 year

DEI training is just ideological preaching, and the case in question was basically a struggle session. Workers’ compensation board determined it was bullying/harassment and TDSB didn’t dispute that finding. Sorry, are white women not supposed to write about this?

Goddess of BLACK.

@xm_muva

1 year

As a white woman reporting this, I genuinely want to know your intention in writing this piece. What are you insinuating about anti racism work in Canada Jamie?

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Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about Richard Bilkszto, a former TDSB principal who sued the school board after he was harassed in a DEI training session. He passed last week. I'm shocked. What a tragic loss. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

Lisa Bildy

@LDBildy

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With his family's permission, I am very saddened to release this statement about the passing of my client, Richard Bilkszto.

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5 months

You know, if I lived in Ontario, I'd be pretty frustrated that the (conservative) education minister is content with his schools promoting racial hierarchies and teaching contempt for Canadian heritage

Jonathan Kay

@jonkay

5 months

Behold the 44-page @tdsb “Teaching Resource” that went out to teachers this morning. Main takeaway: “Education is a colonial structure that centres whiteness.” Three of the four authors are experts in Hip Hop. One specializes in “Hip Hop as Critical Relevant Responsive Pedagogy”

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6 months

Good leadership here. Calm, sensible, but also firm in saying "no" to the extreme fringes of a movement that demands total submission.

Danielle Smith

@ABDanielleSmith

6 months

Gender identity can be a hard thing to talk about, especially when you are involved. But this conversation is extremely important and parental involvement is critical. Kids need to know we love and support them. My message to all Albertans:

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3. "She also never said he's a white supremacist/resistor" Okay, so she didn't call him a white supremacist or a resistor. She just said he upheld, protected, reproduced, upkept, and defended white supremacy by resisting. Totally different, right?

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1 year

1. "WSIB's finding of bullying and harassment isn't credible" It is. WSIB had to determine whether the injury that took Mr. Bilkszto away from work was connected to said work (was it workplace bullying?). WSIB concluded yes -> claim approved. No need to interview KOJO.

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2. "She never said Canada is more racist" yes she actually did

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7 months

This article is by Fae Johnstone, an activist for all things gender whose organization has received >$1 million in grants and work contracts from the federal government.

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

7 months

#Opinion : Concern about queer rights under a Poilievre-led government keeps me up at night. As prime minister, would he stand up for 2SLGBTQIA+ people? Or would he bargain away our rights and equality to appease his social conservative base?

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2 years

@CBCNews guys check out this far right manifesto I just found

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@sarkonakj

6 months

How about those fridge subsidies?

Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

@MarkGerretsen

6 months

BREAKING: Conservative Party drops new logo.

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1 year

5. The column runs the defence of "it's supposed to make you feel uncomfortable" which doesn't negate the bullying. If anything, if the trainer really did intend from the outset to make people feel bad, it makes it easier to reason that it was an instance of bullying

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@sarkonakj

2 months

It sure feels unfair that the MP who gave confidential information to a foreign spy now gets to keep his/her identity confidential.

National Newswatch

@natnewswatch

2 months

Unnamed MP maintained a relationship with a foreign intelligence officer - and "proactively" gave the intelligence officer information that was provided in confidence. #cdnpoli

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6 months

His party has funnelled copious amounts of public dollars into interest groups specifically geared at spreading the good word of gender ideology and entrenching it in Canadian law, and now he's complaining that this is a political issue.

Seamus O'Regan Jr

@SeamusORegan

6 months

Trans kids aren’t supposed to be part of your political strategy. They’re not supposed to be lightning rods for fundraisers or rallies. Trans kids are kids. They’re human-beings.

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1 year

My story on Richard Bilkszto and how he is being remembered by his family and friends:

Jamie Sarkonak: Toronto principal bullied over false charge of racism dies from suicide

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

3 months

The organization currently asking Parliament to take 10x more refugees from Gaza is 87% government-funded.

Holly Doan

@hollyanndoan

3 months

Federally-funded immigrant aid society @SaskOpenDoor petitions Parliament to accept at least 10,000 Gazans, ten times current cap. Proposes that Gazans gain access to same free medicare, social services and legal counsel as Ukrainian refugees. #cdnpoli

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@sarkonakj

11 months

Hundreds of books, gone, unable to donate, because they weren’t Diverse enough.

CBC News

@CBCNews

11 months

A new book weeding process in an Ontario school board was intended to ensure school library books are inclusive. It appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books published in 2008 or earlier.

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6 months

Overall, Alberta's direction on gender is a win. My column for the @nationalpost :

Jamie Sarkonak: Danielle Smith brings reason in the face of hysterical gender activists

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

1 year

WSIB's finding of bullying and harassment was based on: a medical diagnosis of anxiety secondary to traumatic workplace events, his own recollection of events, accounts of colleagues who were there -- and the fact that TDSB could have disputed the allegations, but chose not to.

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5 months

It’s one thing for Trudeau to say this (flawed thinking but he’s entitled to it), but it’s unbecoming of the Supreme Court to openly advocate for affirmative action and identity-based appointments.

Supreme Court of Canada

@SCC_eng

5 months

Achieving gender parity among judges at all levels in Canada is a step in the right direction towards having greater diversity on the bench.

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1 month

A government task force has suggested that Canada's "Black Justice Strategy" include: - considerations for reparations - "decarceration" targets - more racial elements in the Criminal Code - dedicated courts + federal depts for Black Canadians - much more...

Justice Canada

@JusticeCanadaEN

1 month

(1/4) Today, Justice Canada released the Report provided by the external Steering Group for Canada’s #BlackJusticeStrategy .

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6 months

Monogamy is one of the oldest, most deeply engrained features of our civilization for good reason. It's the safest for raising kids, it insulates women from being collected like property, etc. Polygamy isn't, and shouldn't be, legitimized by law because it's deeply maladaptive.

National Post

@nationalpost

6 months

As polyamory gains wider acceptance, having multiple partners is still far from a legal right. Our latest longread looks at the rise of polyamory and talks to Canadians who are loving more than one person:

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1 year

This is an example of astroturfing. Use public funds to support the cultivation of ideas on your political "side" and lobby you to make the changes you already want to make. They'll even investigate your ideological opponents.

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3 months

And if you think that's bad, just wait until you hear about Hamas!

Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ

@MarcMillerVM

3 months

“According to RCMP, the national police force believes Diagolon is a militia-like network whose supporters subscribe to an "accelerationist" ideology — the idea that a civil war or the collapse of western governments is inevitable and ought to be sped up.”

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1 year

(Also, if WSIB decisions aren't credible, then why is Ontario using it?! About $2.5 billion is paid out per year, so if the system is so bad that the decisions aren't worth giving weight to, there is a serious problem here)

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Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

5 months

The Online Harms bill will not chill free speech. The new bill will put internet hate-mongers on ice, where they belong. #Opinion

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1 year

WSIB's finding of bullying and harassment was based on the speaker's *repeated* reference back to the exchange and the context in which it occurred (in front of colleagues/superiors), over 2 sessions. The WSIB decision-maker summarized it here:

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@sarkonakj

2 years

In the spring of 2022, Canadian Heritage conducted a public feedback survey to inform their approach to future anti-hate legislation. That survey was tweaked to keep political dissenters from giving full feedback. Full story in the @nationalpost :

Jamie Sarkonak: Trudeau Liberals are filtering out dissent to their 'anti-hate' agenda

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

7 months

Pretty sure plagiarism was considered a no-no before the 21st century

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

7 months

Claudine Gay’s resignation from Harvard points to challenges university presidents face in 21st century

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10 months

Russians have experienced tragedy in the Russia-Ukraine war, but we didn't go lighting up the bridge in red, blue, and white. This shouldn't be any different. Good grief.

City of Edmonton

@CityofEdmonton

10 months

From October 19–20, the High Level Bridge will be lit in red, white, black and green to acknowledge the humanitarian crisis and all people struggling as a result of the violence and conflict in Gaza. #Yeg #LightTheBridge

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2 months

It's regular Canadians who will bear the risk that comes with doing this, not the guy who handed out the visas.

Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ

@MarcMillerVM

2 months

Ottawa extends special visa program so 5,000 more Palestinians can join family in Canada - The Globe and Mail

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5 months

She says it like “bias” is a problem here. Hardly. Westerners should ally with other Westerners who have similar values, and not Islamist “anti-colonial” movements that use rape as a tool of war and terror.

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

5 months

A Stephen Harper tweet was the latest reminder of the depth of Western bias on Israel-Palestine. There is so much mutual pain in the region that to ignore the underlying conditions of violence is to create conditions that lead to violence. #Opinion

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The last time the military “reflected” Canadian demographics was likely during WW2. The primary recruiting pool since then has been rural/small city-based, high school educated, working class white men. Alienating this group is unwise. My column:

Jamie Sarkonak: Turns out, open hostility to white men isn't great for military recruitment

nationalpost.com

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2 months

A "Menstrual Equity Fund," a male-washroom tampon mandate, and now, period bracelets. My column on this government's bizarre attempts at honouring womanhood:

Jamie Sarkonak: The period bracelet, a cringey fashion statement for Liberal men

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

4 months

In January, an Alberta judge sentenced a foreign student/worker from India, Rajbir Singh, to a conditional discharge for sexually assaulting a woman (he felt up her genitals at a club. He was certain to be deported with a heavier sentence, so the judge went light. Sickening.

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6 months

Canada only criminalized "conversion therapy" for gender in one direction. It's perfectly legal to condition a non-transgender-identifying youth into thinking they are in fact trans. And yet, the minister responsible for the Criminal Code now whines of "misguided" policy in AB.

Arif Virani

@viraniarif

6 months

As a parent, my heart breaks for young 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Alberta who are being targeted by @ABDanielleSmith ’s harmful and misguided policy. To trans and gender diverse youth: please know that we - and so many Canadians - stand with you and will stand up for your rights.

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4 months

Not a serious court.

Ontario Court of Justice

@OntarioOn

4 months

The Ontario Court of Justice has issued a notice to the profession and the public regarding pronouns for lawyers and parties. Read more:

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1 year

They should be free to research and advocate for whatever. The problem here is that this is *publicly funded* political activism, clearly aimed at attacking a specific group. Are we paying for tracking Premier Higgs in NB? Concerned parents in Oakville? We might be!

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@sarkonakj

7 months

The decolonization movement isn’t actually interested in building anything. It just wants to tear your civilization and culture down to revel in the rubble.

Ghada Sasa | غادة سعسع PhD(c) 🇵🇸

@sasa_ghada

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Dismantle Canada. Land back! ✊

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7 months

We have officially reached the "would you rather have a dead kid or a government-drug-supplied kid" point in Harm Reduction Discourse

Taleeb Noormohamed 🇨🇦

@Taleeb

7 months

Data shows that toxic supply is killing kids. You can’t treat kids if they’re dead, Michelle. Also: there are treatment protocols in place to access safe supply. Guess where kids suffering from addictions go to get drugs if they can’t access safe supply? Drug dealers.

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@sarkonakj

9 months

There’s something really dark about a children’s hospital discussing sterilization like it’s a haircut.

Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba

@CHFManitoba

9 months

Mary is a 10-year-old, who just wants to feel like a “real girl,” in her body and thanks to her family's unwavering love and support, together they are on a gender-affirming path to make her feel more authentically herself. Read about Mary’s journey at

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11 months

The research @MarciIen cites absolutely does not provide any insight into parenting and school policy. It's just an online survey of trans-ID'd youth, and all it really shows is that this group is very likely to have mental health issues.

Marci Ien

@MarciIen

11 months

Brian, that's incorrect. This is about the mental health of kids. Not parenting; not politics. To be clear, I cite Canadian research, not American. This is a reality for kids in Canada. Feel free to take a look:

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4. "It was a brief exchange and therefore not bullying and harassment" Yes, it was a brief initial exchange. However, WSIB's finding of bullying and harassment was based on more than just the initial exchange (see next tweet)

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As a former distance runner, this hits close to home. When I ran cross-country, the ladies and the men started at the same time but the guys finished way before us. Without sex-segregated competition, we wouldn't stand a chance. It's a matter of basic fairness.

REDUXX

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A trans-identified male took the top spot at a women's running competition in Canada last week, adding to his rapidly growing list of victories against female athletes. Tiffany Newell, 50, has set at least one Canadian women's running record.

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It's awfully rich for Ontario school boards to sue social media companies for "rewiring" students. Proper reading instruction wasn't given for years, identity politics dominate classrooms, and COVID closures were long. That's not TikTok's fault. My column:

Jamie Sarkonak: Ontario schools blame social media after years of failing to educate

nationalpost.com

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The amount of new funding the Canadian government has given to DEI has ramped up massively in the past several years. Budget 2024 had a few graphs to help illustrate this. Spending on inclusion and anti-hate measures in... 2017: $0 2024: $800 million

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He's characterizing an event of mass butchery and rape as "freedom and liberation." A professor at the U of T. Deranged.

HonestReporting Canada🎗️

@HonestRepCanada

9 months

HELP TAKE ACTION! @uahikea , Assistant Prof, at @UofT , labels Hamas' horrific slaughter of 1,400 Israelis as an: "an expression and a movement & a feeling of jubilation" Justifying the murder of innocent civilians is appalling! We call on @UofT for immediate disciplinary action!

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7 months

@MarcMillerVM It’s a mystery

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10 months

How convenient that this shot doesn’t show what’s written on the signs

Janis Irwin

@JanisIrwin

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Edmonton 🇵🇸

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Since at least 2019, the Liberals have openly pushed for more DEI in (the provinces') universities. And, by tilting the priorities of the federal research funding agencies, they've been very successful. Provinces have every right to push back. My column:

Jamie Sarkonak: Danielle Smith is the antidote to Trudeau's DEI agenda in universities

nationalpost.com

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Coming soon to Canada is a Black Justice Strategy. It's still in the works, but a steering group advising the Liberals has recommended radically soft criminal/immigration law reforms and a vast expansion of race-based government programs. My column:

Jamie Sarkonak: Expect more injustice from the Liberals' forthcoming Black Justice Strategy

nationalpost.com

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The federal government is consulting Canadians on future revisions to the Employment Equity Act until the end of July. The law mandates identity-based hiring practices in the federal government, its agencies, and its contractors. I've pulled some highlights:

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@sarkonakj

5 months

Using pension funds to buoy the sinking Canadian economy sounds like a pretty terrible idea. If investors are leaving, fix the root cause, not the symptom.

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@JulianKlymochko

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Every Canadian should read this

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9 months

The next victim of DEI: Christmas.

CTV Ottawa

@ctvottawa

9 months

NEW: Girl Guides told not to participate in Kanata Santa Claus Parade due to secularism policy. Click the image below to read more. 🔽

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"The Chilliwack school district will be placing menstrual product dispensers in male washrooms" Not only is this completely unnecessary and expensive (estimate: $15-17k), it perpetuates the lie to students that biological sex is a trivial classification.

Chilliwack school board approves menstrual product dispensers in male washrooms

An informal survey conducted by the school district showed 75 of 80 students in favour

www.abbynews.com

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7 months

There’s something incredibly messed up about people flooding Toronto’s streets to cheer for enemy attacks on civilian trade ships. (Also it’s the Houthis and not the Yemeni government doing the attacking, but I guess “Yemen” is easier to chant)

CIJA

@CIJAinfo

7 months

🔴Shameful glorification of violence & terror on the streets of #Toronto . Houthis militants have been violently targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea & have launched drones & missiles targeting Israeli civilians. Today, the same activists calling for an unconditional

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This kind of event feels unbecoming. You would have never seen the Queen campaigning against hate, even though she got plenty of it. If you hold the highest office in a country, you need to be above this stuff.

Governor General of Canada

@GGCanada

4 months

This mornings’ diverse and distinguished panellists bravely shared their experiences of online abuse and how it has impacted their personal lives, work and well-being. Their courage sets the stage for all of us to raise our voices against online abuse. #WeDeserveBetter

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@sarkonakj

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Terrible as it is, the situation described below is a policing issue, not a Governor General issue. It doesn't justify the use of Rideau Hall for the promotion of a contentious bill.

Rachel Gilmore

@atRachelGilmore

4 months

"Mean comments" is a cool way to refer to myself and my family receiving threats of bodily harm, @nationalpost ! A man with a profile full of guns suggested he was going to show up at my partner's show. A person threatened to physically assault my mother. You're disgusting, man.

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@sarkonakj

4 months

I can't be run over by an internet comment

Arif Virani

@viraniarif

4 months

As parents, we teach our kids how to cross the road. We are comfortable doing so because we trust that drivers will respect the rules of the road. We need “rules of the road” for online platforms, to help keep our kids safe. C-63 creates those rules.

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@sarkonakj

3 months

I keep seeing this pop up in the news as if it's a noble cause. It's really not. Non-monogamy is corrosive to human well-being and we shouldn't change our laws to prop it up.

Natalie Stechyson

@NatStechyson

3 months

Polyamorous relationships are on the rise in Canada. The law is still catching up.

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Jamie Sarkonak

@sarkonakj

7 months

I'm so glad people like this weren't in charge during WWII.

Heather McPherson

@HMcPhersonMP

7 months

Experts are saying these attacks may embolden the Houthis - also responsible for war crimes & no friends of peace - and create further carnage for civilians. We’re running head-first into a larger crisis while Gazans continue to suffer. /3

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@sarkonakj

11 months

Reminder that Egale Canada is majority-funded by government. This organization only started getting taxpayer dollars under the Liberal government in 2017, because it keeps the feds from having to fight directly with provinces on cultural policy.

Jeremy Simes

@JeremySimes

11 months

New: Egale Canada says UR Pride is prepared to launch legal action against Saskatchewan’s pronoun rules if gov’t doesn’t reverse it by 5 pm tomorrow. Egale Canada and McCarthy Tétrault LLP are co-legal counsel. #skpoli

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@sarkonakj

4 months

The point of posts like this is to construct a (false) sense of historical significance for a new ritual that currently lacks popular legitimacy. This was "first observed 15 years ago" by a handful of people at best. Most of us didn't know about it, nor do we care now.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

@WAGE_FEGC

4 months

International #TransDayOfVisibility was first observed 15 years ago and is dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of the discrimination they face. Help us raise awareness and stand up for equal and fair treatment.

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@sarkonakj

3 months

We don't owe foreigners citizenship, especially those who are here illegally.

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

3 months

This undocumented migrant comes out from shadows to urge Canada to keep promises of permanent residency. The Trudeau government has been promising a way to regularize status but migrants are tired of waiting.

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Jamie Sarkonak

@sarkonakj

10 months

Hamas executed elderly people in the streets. Babies in their beds. It's a terrorist organization, an enemy army. Yet they're cheering for it, here, where the rest of us want to live in peace. Why do we allow ourselves to be humiliated like this?

Fatima 𓂆 فاطمة 🇵🇸

@fatimasal82

10 months

Edmonton! Seeing this made my heart soar. Thank you to everyone who came out. We stood in solidarity from 167 ave to past 153. #FreePalestine #Yeg

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@sarkonakj

1 year

Public Safety Minister @marcomendicino has announced that the first wave of gun confiscations will cover firearms retailers/industry. The second wave will come for individual gun owners later on. I wrote about the announcement for the @nationalpost :

Jamie Sarkonak: Justin Trudeau’s Great Canadian Gun Confiscation

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

8 months

So they ditched the name of a historic man for … a nebulous concept in a foreign language

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

8 months

#Breaking : Yonge-Dundas Square in the heart of Toronto will be renamed "Sankofa Square."

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@sarkonakj

3 months

There is something unsettling about elders who don't care to defend their society. It's kind of like parents who don't care about their kids. On PEI, foreign men loudly demand privileges that ultimately cost Islanders. Yet, her problem is with Harrison's (neutral) language.

Harrison Faulkner

@Harry__Faulkner

3 months

Never say "these people" when referring to a group of foreigners around old liberal women.

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@sarkonakj

9 months

The crowd cheered at a Vancouver rally this weekend when a speaker called it "beautiful" that "Palestinians literally learned how to fly on hang gliders."

Jotam Confino

@mrconfino

9 months

3: Hamas terrorists enter a house, where a small girl is seen hiding under the table. After some talking back and forth they shoot and kill her as she hides under the table. Hard to say how old she is but looks like 7-9 years old.

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@sarkonakj

5 months

This is wild. UBC's student body will be voting on a referendum in March to (a) abolish the use of Robert's Rules (because decolonization) and (b) add 99 identity-based seats to student council. There are only 32 seats right now.

The Ubyssey

@Ubyssey

5 months

"This referendum is undemocratic and a thinly veiled power grab from a minority of students who are plaguing the campus community with petty politics under the guise of social justice," writes former AMS President Esmé Decker.

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@sarkonakj

6 months

Edmonton pediatrician claims hormone therapy is reversible. Yikes. How is this person a doctor?

Global Edmonton

@GlobalEdmonton

6 months

Doctors are criticizing Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for her medically “false” statements about transgender youth care and gender reassignment surgery. READ MORE:

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@sarkonakj

11 months

The theory behind lenient race-based sentencing is that it benefits a community, but in practice it deprives them of justice — while undermining the fairness of the system for everyone. I covered a recent decision by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal:

Jamie Sarkonak: House arrest for impregnating daughter a result of race-based sentencing

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

2 years

@Telefilm_Canada And by that, they mean hiring quotas.

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@sarkonakj

1 year

Using "genocide" to describe any state action you disagree with really cheapens the word.

Kennedy Stewart

@kennedystewart

1 year

On October 15, 2022, 85,732 of you voted to elect a new mayor and council who today abandoned our attempts to reconcile with Indigenous people and resume traditional genocidal practices. Welcome to Cruel Vancouver. #Vanpoli #UNDRIP

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@sarkonakj

3 months

Anyway, this isn't fair to Canadian offenders who can't raise deportation risk as a factor in sentencing, and it's not fair to Canadians who want to live in a safe, high-trust society. We shouldn't give procedural advantages to non-Canadians who break our rules.

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@sarkonakj

8 months

He talks about affirmative action with the same urgency you'd expect from the World Wildlife Fund racing to save a rare species of leopard. So dramatic, lol. The reality is that women/minorities don't need this program and the principles behind it set us back as a country.

Seamus O'Regan Jr

@SeamusORegan

8 months

We just received the report on employment equity, and what we can do to achieve it. We’re not wasting time. Because diversity is a fact. Inclusion is a choice. And equity is the law.

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@sarkonakj

5 months

This is: - unfair - racist - a poor way to allocate resources - a policy choice that can be reversed

Gad Saad

@GadSaad

5 months

Finally some DIE justice. Undergraduate Student Research Awards granted by the Canadian government are ONLY available to black students.

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@sarkonakj

11 days

And with them will come even higher rents, even longer service wait times, even lower wages, and an even greater sense that the Canada you once knew is fading away.

Bryan Passifiume

@BryanPassifiume

12 days

NEW FROM ME: Despite government promises of a cap on international students, Canada is approving study permits at a pace faster than last year’s record numbers. IRCC numbers show Canada approved 216,620 permits in the first five months of 2024

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@sarkonakj

1 year

In total, this organization has received at least $1,220,085 in grants from the feds to date (this figure doesn't appear to include SSHRC grants, which they've also received):

Andy Lee

@RealAndyLeeShow

1 year

@sarkonakj SSHRC grants too. Quite the outfit.

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@sarkonakj

9 months

Alberta Health Services has a whole DEI bureaucracy. I imagine it quietly grew over the years and no one wanted to say "no" to each new addition. In this chart: -"DEI practitioners" -workforce resource groups (clubs for equity seeking groups) -various DEI committees

David Staples

@DavidStaplesYEG

9 months

Healthcare reform idea: shut down all DEI departments at public institutions, use that money to fund training of more nurses and doctors. Also, fund scholarships for doctors and nurse practitioners willing to sign 5-year contacts to work in rural Alberta.

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@sarkonakj

3 months

There is no plan to pare back certain diversity quotas in federal research funding, says the man in charge of administering the identity-based Canada Research Chairs program. It seems discriminatory hiring isn't going away anytime soon. My column:

Jamie Sarkonak: No off-ramp to diversity quotas, federal research executive says

nationalpost.com

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@sarkonakj

1 month

"For years," they say, as if this kind of talk isn't a complete fad that took off in 2020, bolstered by the work of activist PhDs who peddle novel forms of racism for a living.

CBC News

@CBCNews

1 month

For years, researchers have shown how Indigenous, Black and other racialized groups have been disproportionately affected by polluting industries. Now, a new law will require the federal government to better track this injustice and aim to correct it. .

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@sarkonakj

6 months

This is less about healthcare and more about enforcing a particular kind of spirituality. To them, the gendered soul should be explicitly cared for by the state; the associated cosmetic procedures are a path to self-fulfillment that simply can't wait until adulthood.

Randy Boissonnault 🏳️‍🌈

@R_Boissonnault

6 months

You are loved. You are seen. You are heard. Our government will always support your right to be who you are. Let’s #killthisbill

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@sarkonakj

1 month

This was a controversial idea in just 2017!

National Post

@nationalpost

1 month

Big majority of Canadian Gen Z, millennials support values-testing immigrants: poll

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Jamie Sarkonak

@sarkonakj

10 months

Are student union fees optional in Ontario? If not, they should be. No one should be made to fund this garbage.

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@sarkonakj

4 months

"Address root causes" isn't the role of the justice system, though. That's done by having a strong economy and maintaining widely-held cultural values that discourage and stigmatize criminal activity. Most of that is done far outside the courts.

Ben Perrin

@profbenperrin

4 months

The @nationalpost makes mistake of thinking there are only 2 options: "soft-on-crime" or "tough-on-crime" - neither work As I show in "Indictment" , we need a new transformative justice system that prevents crime, addresses root causes, reduces recidivism and is evidence-based

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@sarkonakj

9 months

Laith Marouf is back in the creative writing saddle, I see. He’s a fan of forming militias and “Zionist-Hunter squads.”

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@sarkonakj

3 months

So, a male who identifies as a transwoman (see quoted video) tried to abduct a baby from his mother's arms yesterday in Vancouver. The police news release identifies the attacker as a "she." This person appears to have also made videos about taking estrogen for pleasure.

Brattani

@Bratt_world

3 months

#BREAKING CTV Global and City news are calling this MAN a woman. This is the MAN who tried to rip a baby from the mother while she nursing. What kind of clown world are we living in ? Does this appear to be an adult human female ? 🤡 🇨🇦

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Jamie Sarkonak

@sarkonakj

4 months

Today, I commit to standing up for all asexuals: the amoebas, the starfish, the hydra, the bacteria, the plants, and even the parthenogenetic lizards.

Pascale St-Onge

@PascaleStOnge_

4 months

For International Asexuality Day, let’s commit to stand up for more inclusive and respectful communities. 🌈

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