If your school has directives to keep information about your child away from you, action is necessary. Stand up, make noise and protect your children from age inappropriate ‘gender-queer’ nonsense.
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Dead Wild Roses: Let’s Raise the Incidence of Sexual Assault against Girls – British Columbia Education at it’s Finest!
Who the hell is on this board and why do they think that the destruction of female boundaries and privacy is good thing? “The vast majority of reported sexual assaults at public swimming pools in the UK take place in unisex changing rooms, new statistics reveal. The data, obtained
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Transwomen” in Female Sports – The Famous Artist Birdy Rose
More please. This sort of refutation of transgeder ideological talking points needs to be everywhere. This is not about ‘being kind’ this is about recognizing the reality we all live in and BEING FAIR.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What they mean – A translation guide
One interpretation of what the Social Justice types are all about.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Critical Social Justice Derails Free Thought and Free Expression
Just gathering information at the moment about this worrisome trend in academia and other locals in society. But I think it is important to point out though that ‘being offended’ isn’t a valid reason for ending the career of a professor at a University. The notion that you being offended
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Critical Race Theory Educators – Defend their Case.
Breaking down some of the CRT dodges and rhetorical flourishes you will probably run into if you get to discuss CRT with a believer.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that rhetoric about “learning to live with it” has become the go-to excuse to allow preventable tragedies – including the COVID pandemic and the deepening climate crisis – to go unaddressed. Joe Vipond, Kashif Perzada and Malgorzata Gasperowicz argue that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Queer Theory is Gender Marxism – James Lindsay
James Lindsay purports to find a common thread among the new critical theories that have garnered attention in the United States and to a lesser extent, Canada. For the purposes of the podcast, he summarizes what Marxism is and some of the related terminology (including marxist-feminism 18:50). Different points of
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Scott Aitchison
Another Conservative Party leadership candidate has replied to my survey. This time it is Scott Aitchison who is the MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka. As a refresher theseare the questions that were sent out: 1. What are your views on the monarchy?2. As prime minister would you make useof the Advisory Committee on Vice-RegalAppointments
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Diversity Versus Excellence
More fact finding today – It is interesting the amount of discomfort I’ve felt while reading passages like this. We’ve all been inculcated, to one degree or another, on how important ‘Diversity’ is in our society, yet have we foregrounded the wrong concept? The pursuit of excellence though, if
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Critical Race Theory (CRT) – What it is.
One hears about the battle going on in the US to keep Critical Race Theory out of public institutions. Rather than relying media soundbites of what CRT is, I figured it was time to go searching for the definition myself. As with most academic literature sorting through the palavers is
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Leona Alleslev
Once again there is a federal Conservative leadership race underway. As has become my practice I have sent surveys out to all ofthe leadership candidates to get their viewson Canada’s monarchy. The first candidate to get back to me is Leona Alleslev. Mrs. Alleslev is the former MP for Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill, a position she held from 2015-2021. This is her
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: York University’s Failure to Protect Free Speech – Julie Bindel
York University sets the bar low because challenging the intellectual assumptions of the student body is considered an act of ‘violence’. Read that right folks, hearing alternative world views will negatively affect student safety… at a University. “Two days before I was due to travel to York, the event was
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Winnie Wan Yee Tso et al. study the severity of the Omicron BA.2 COVID variant, and find that its rate of deaths and severe outcomes is no less severe than previous variants in children from 0-11 in particular. Guy Quenneville reports on the connection between
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Noushin Ziafati reports on the continuing challenges facing people suffering from long COVID – particularly as governments attempt to pretend the pandemic which infected them never happened. And Eric Topol writes about the continued denialism in the U.S. as another wave is cresting.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Make People Feel Ignorant So They Listen To Experts
Figure 1 from Cook, Ellerton, and Kinkead 2018. CC BY 3.0 The rise of disinformation by organizations big and small means the role of experts is even more important. We have seen how people have been manipulated around elections to vote against their interests and even to deny a well-documented
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Unethical Teaching Practice – Indoctrinating Children with Harmful Transgender Ideology
Start at 18:10 if the video bookmark doesn’t work.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How to Tell If Your Faculty Has Gone to Shit
Remember when you could just go study a subject and not have to deal with the inane bullshit outside said field (most fields have enough internal BS going on). Not anymore. Now you can get dial your oppression into serious subjects and feel good correcting others when they mistake
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Failure to issue a medal marking the Platinum Jubilee just the most recent act in a troubling pattern of behavior by this government
On February 17th the Monarchist League of Canada finally received confirmation by the government that no medal would be produced to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Now, given the number of people who have went above and beyond during the pandemic (and ought to be honoured in some way) this is not a great decision.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Oppressed by social justice
University of Toronto. Photo by Jon Bilous/Shutterstock. Right-leaning academics and many who have never set foot on a post-secondary campus will try to convince you that universities are bastions of leftist ideology and activism. They will lament their loss of academic freedom in an increasingly “woke” environment. They will complain
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