A Canadian broadcaster launched a vicious attack on religious people after Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov refused to take part in warmups to observe “Pride Night” because of his Christian faith.
The celebration of gay culture included players wearing pride-themed jerseys while brandishing hockey sticks wrapped in rainbow-colored tape.
Provorov, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, said after the game, “I respect everybody and I respect everybody’s choices. My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.” Flyers head coach John Tortorella defended Provorov, <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1615572273133457408">echoing, </a>“He’s being true to himself and to his religion. … It’s one thing I respect about Provy, he’s always true to himself.”
Tortorella and Provorov’s actions incensed Canadian broadcaster Sid Seixeiro, the host of “Breakfast Television,” who first compared the situation with what happened in Major League Baseball last year, saying, “This happened in baseball last year with the Tampa Bay Rays; there were five members of the Tampa Bay Rays who wouldn’t wear a patch supporting gay rights, and Major League Baseball didn’t do much. It was a story for a little bit.”
Then he turned to Tortorella: “John Tortorella, many years ago, when racial injustice — and it still is to this day — when Colin Kaepernick first started kneeling during national anthems, said anyone who does that on my team is going to sit. And he has a son who is an Army Ranger. So it’s not like Tortorella in the past hasn’t spoken on sensitive issues.”
He lectured the NHL on how it should respond:
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The theme from the National Hockey League is “Hockey is for everyone,” okay. The theme is not, “Hockey is for everyone &#8230; unless you don’t believe in gay rights, then do whatever you want.” If the National Hockey League’s gonna do this, if any league’s gonna do this, do it properly, or reevaluate what you’re doing, because there’s not a lot of repercussions that I’m seeing from any league.
Now it could change with the NHL, it could change with the NHL, I think you fine the Flyers a million dollars for this, I’m not kidding. Figure this out and stop offending people on nights where it’s not about that, it’s supposed to be about inclusivity.  The National Hockey League need to attack this and figure this out, because what I heard last night was offensive and didn’t make any sense.
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“I just think the NHL has to do something here,” Seixeiro snapped, “This is not good enough. ‘Hockey is for everyone &#8230; unless you don’t agree with gay rights’ is not the phrasing of this. You’re either in this or you’re not.”
Then he went ballistic attacking religious people: “And one last point: Nothing scares me more than any human being who says ‘I’m not doing this because of my religious beliefs,’ because when you’ve looked at people’s lives who say that publicly, you’d throw up at what you saw. You would throw up at what you saw. And I’ve seen that a million times in a lot of different ways. So don’t give me that, with respect, don’t give me that, ’cause no one’s perfect. Don’t feed me the religious beliefs line and all of a sudden the NHL’s gonna back off this.”
“The National Hockey League today (rapping the desk) needs to fine that organization a million dollars and reevaluate how they support gay rights, ’cause that is insulting,” he concluded.
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Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov didn’t take part in the NHL’s “Hockey Is For Everyone” pregame warmups &#8211; where players wore Pride-themed jerseys and used sticks wrapped in rainbow Pride tape &#8211; citing his religion as the reason. <a href="https://twitter.com/Sid_Seixeiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sid_seixeiro</a> shares his thoughts ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/8c7XnP2FYJ">pic.twitter.com/8c7XnP2FYJ</a>
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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian</a> woman is suing a food and beverage business after she became so <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alcohol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intoxicated</a> that she ended up causing $10 million in harm to a slew of houses.
The 26-year-old woman, Daniella Leis, was <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/17/women-sues-bar-after-getting-so-drunk-she-blew-up-10m-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">driving</a> home after she had been drinking at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marilyn-manson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marilyn Manson</a> concert in London, Ontario, in August of 2019. She was <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/daniella-leis-car-crash-ovations-lawsuit-b2263845.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> driving the wrong way on a street. She then crashed the car she was driving into a home, which broke a gas line and set off an explosion that ruined four homes and hurt seven individuals. The people who were injured included first responders. Two police officers were harmed, as well as two firefighters. One of the firefighters needed to be in the hospital for over a week before they were able to go home.
The whole neighborhood was evacuated and gas and water utilities were shut down in the region. The harm done to the homes resulted in a cost of between $9.8 million and $14.7 million.
“The financial impact of Ms. Leis’ actions have been enormous, with a total damage estimate approaching $15 million,” Judge George Orsini reportedly told the court.
Following the incident, in 2020, Leis pleaded guilty to four impaired driving counts and received a jail sentence of three years in 2021. However, she and her father, Shawn Leis, put forward a lawsuit this month going after the business that gave her the alcohol.
They sued Ovations Ontario Food Services, stating that the business is also liable for the explosion because workers kicked Leis out of the site while not taking measures to make sure she would not operate a vehicle to get home.
The statement of claim reportedly <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/woman-convicted-in-woodman-ave-explosion-sues-food-and-beverage-company-1.6715421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the business also didn’t look into her &#8220;intended mode of transportation as she existed [sic] Budweiser Gardens when they knew or ought to have known that she was or appealed [sic] to be intoxicated and/or impaired.&#8221; It also said that the group did not have appropriate bouncers and did not keep track of how inebriated people were who were departing.
Leis also claimed that the group gave her alcohol while they knew she was inebriated, with the statement saying that the business or their workers <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/woman-convicted-in-woodman-ave-explosion-sues-food-and-beverage-company-1.6715421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> her the substance &#8220;when they knew or ought to have known that she was intoxicated or would become intoxicated.&#8221;
Leis said that they prioritized “profit above safety” and the ensuing harm was “caused or contributed to by the negligence, breach of duty, breach of contract” by the business.
It noted that if Leis and her father are made to pay any money, they are &#8220;entitled to contribution and indemnity from the defendant (Ovation).&#8221;

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A biology paper misrepresented data used to support its claim that the field of evolutionary biology discriminates against disabled people, a Daily Wire analysis has found. 
The paper, &#8220;Discussions of the &#8216;Not So Fit&#8217;: How Ableism Limits Diverse Thought and Investigative Potential in Evolutionary Biology,&#8221; <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/720003">published</a> in American Naturalist last year, accused the field of evolutionary biology of &#8220;ableism.&#8221; To demonstrate this, the authors manipulated statistics to give the illusion that the field of evolutionary biology is particularly discriminatory against disabled people by inappropriately comparing rates of disability within evolutionary biology to society generally. 
The paper argues that concepts like &#8220;fitness&#8221; and &#8220;natural selection&#8221; —  foundational to the field of evolutionary biology, which studies the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time — are &#8220;harmful&#8221; and have been &#8220;weaponized against marginalized communities in the modern day.&#8221; And the authors&#8217; thesis is that evolutionary biology’s use of purportedly “ableist” terms and concepts discourages disabled people from studying the field, and is therefore more discriminatory of the disabled than other areas of study. But instead of sampling from other academic disciplines, the authors claim that &#8220;the proportion of disabled evolutionary biologists is far below the population average.&#8221; 
The authors compared a National Center for Science and Engineering Studies (NCSES) statistic that found 8.1% of disabled doctorate recipients in the life sciences with a CDC statistic that found <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/infographic-disability-impacts-all.html">26%</a> of the US population was disabled. But upon closer inspection, this <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/pdfs/mm6732a3-H.pdf">26%</a> CDC statistic was determined through <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/dhds/data-guide/status-and-types.html">self-reporting</a>, based on a six-question set, and included participants 65 and over who have considerably higher rates of age-related disabilities.
A more representative sample would have been to compare evolutionary biology with other academic fields of study. In fact, the same NCSES <a href="https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf22300/data-tables#group1">data set</a> (Table 28) used by the authors included the comparable data of other disciplines and revealed there was little difference between the number of disabled doctorate degree recipients in the life sciences (8.1%) with psychology/social sciences (9.8%), education (8.9%), math/computer science (7.2%), and humanities/arts (11.1%). 
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In addition, the authors cited another <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/evo.14168">study</a> by Rushworth et al comparing the 10.8% disability rate in evolution societies to the 26% CDC statistic, but did not mention that the Rushworth study itself acknowledged a &#8220;more conservative national estimate&#8221; of 12.8% from a more recent US Census.
Evolutionary biology is an intellectually challenging undertaking that often requires a field component to research, so one might expect to find fewer people with cognitive or mobility disabilities pursuing it, but the data shows there is very little disparity between it and other academic fields of study. 
The publication&#8217;s former editor-in-chief, Dan Bolnick, <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/12/29/a-once-respected-biology-journal-indicts-evolutionary-biology-for-ableism/">said</a> that this particular paper was a &#8220;special issue&#8221; that &#8220;invited papers at the intersection of humanities and sciences,&#8221; and that it was reviewed by a &#8220;special team&#8221; that included humanities researchers that did not comprise their &#8220;usual board.&#8221;  
<a href="https://twitter.com/Evolutionistrue">Jerry Coyne</a>, a prolific evolutionary biologist and author of the bestselling book, “Why Evolution Is True,” hosts a website by the same name where he recently <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/12/29/a-once-respected-biology-journal-indicts-evolutionary-biology-for-ableism/">reviewed</a> the paper. 
&#8220;First, it’s one of the more ludicrous examples of science policing I’ve seen,&#8221; opined Coyne, who said he supports accommodations for disabled people to have the same opportunities as others. &#8220;Second, it shows how the American Society of Naturalists, which publishes the journal, has gone down the same woke road as the other ecology and evolution societies.&#8221;
The paper makes several suggestions to rectify evolutionary biology&#8217;s ableist past, which mostly include changes to terminology they deem offensive and providing a chart with alternative language that should be used.
&#8220;According to the authors, the field is rife with words like &#8216;mutant/wild type,&#8217; &#8216;fitness optimum,&#8217; &#8216;mutations&#8217; (we should say &#8216;base pair change&#8217;), and &#8216;optimization,'&#8221; said Coyne. &#8220;The paper ends with a demand — not a request — that we purge evolutionary biology of ableist language.&#8221;
Perhaps most concerning is their call for an overhaul of foundational concepts in evolutionary biology, such as &#8220;fitness.&#8221; Within the context of evolutionary biology, fitness refers to measures of reproductive success, not the condition of an individual organism being physically fit.
&#8220;The authors’ discussion is muddled because they use &#8216;fitness&#8217; as equivalent to &#8216;able-bodied,&#8217; implying that &#8216;lower fitness&#8217; is somehow a slur on the disabled,&#8221; said Coyne. &#8220;In our field, the term was not used to denigrate the disabled, but simply to express the relative number of copies of a given gene variant in the next generation compared to alternative variants of the same gene.&#8221; 
&#8220;The authors also disparage the use of the term &#8216;survival of the fittest&#8217; because, they argue, it not only disparages handicapped people, but has led to social darwinism, a philosophy embraced by capitalists,&#8221; he added.
In addition to ableism, the authors accuse the field of evolutionary biology of eugenics, racism, white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism. The paper also is peppered with humanities terms like &#8220;unconscious bias&#8221; and &#8220;lived experience,&#8221; and in the acknowledgments section the authors apologized for representing &#8220;white settlers’ perspectives on these issues.&#8221;
&#8220;American Naturalist would be better off if it stuck to its original mission — presenting good science — and stayed away from politics, ideology, and social engineering,&#8221; said Coyne.
The world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins shared Coyne’s sentiments regarding the formerly prestigious publication on Twitter. 
&#8220;American Naturalist used to be a great journal,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1608907894497607681?s=20&amp;t=gv4OiBM4UXEFf8NunygHJw">tweeted</a> Dawkins, with a link to Coyne&#8217;s review. &#8220;Very sad. How could they sink so low?&#8221;
Elon Musk took the opportunity to <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608919969953349634?s=20&amp;t=PTxM1S27w8AEqoDNHa9STA">chime in</a>, &#8220;The woke mind virus is penetrating the firewalls of some of the world’s smartest meat computers at a prodigious rate!&#8221;
The lead author of the paper, Haley Branch, a botany student at the University of British Columbia, <a href="https://twitter.com/HaleyABranch/status/1613683909526712325?s=20&amp;t=o20hPSS-HwTDV5nsbAWI4Q">responded</a> to the criticism on Thursday.
&#8220;I did not expect the onslaught of disrespectful messages,&#8221; said Branch. &#8220;We did not expect the main takeaway to be language policing.&#8221;
Branch, who hopes her research can further &#8220;<a href="https://www.ubyssey.ca/features/our-campus-Haley-Branch/">climate justice</a>,&#8221; revealed in a 2020 social media <a href="https://twitter.com/HaleyABranch/status/1334674976406818818?s=20&amp;t=rNHT1MyZULXKpSFcTFdV7g">post</a> that she didn&#8217;t think of herself or &#8220;identify&#8221; as disabled until &#8220;very recently.&#8221; In fact, she used to be a ballet dancer and practiced 30 hours a week, that is, until she discovered she had Ehler-Danlos syndrome, a connective tissue abnormality that causes flexible joints. In 2020, she formed a <a href="https://www.ubyssey.ca/news/disabled-graduate-student-association/">support group</a> for disabled graduate students and aspires to make academia more &#8220;equitable&#8221; for them.
&#8220;It took until #diagnosis for me to identify, but that was because of lack of allies, support, and ableism,&#8221; said Branch. &#8220;I&#8217;m sad that medical #ableism prevented me from finding my community earlier.&#8221;

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The Girl Guides of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canada</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148705587/canada-girl-guides-brownies-racism-racialized-embers-name-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> a new name for one of its groups on Wednesday in an effort to be more “inclusive.”
Instead of “Brownies,” the seven- to eight-year-old age branch of girls in the Girl Guides of Canada (GGC) will now be called “Embers.”
“This wasn’t just about a name or its origin. This was about the fact that girls experienced racism and felt that they weren’t welcome in Girl Guides,” Jill Zelmanovits, the CEO of Girl Guides of Canada, <a href="https://www.girlguides.ca/WEB/Documents/GGC/media/media-releases/GGC_Branch_Name_Announcement_Media_Release_Jan2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release.
“We heard from many current and former members and even members of the public who understood why we had to make this change. Over the last couple of months, families have signed up with Girl Guides for the first time because changing this name means Girl Guides is more inclusive for their daughters,” Zelmanovits noted.
The Girl Guides announced in November that they were acting to find a different name for the branch after current and past members said the “Brownies” title “caused harm and was a barrier to belonging for racialized girls and women,” according to the release.
The name “Embers” will be fully incorporated by September and Girl Guides is <a href="https://www.girlguides.ca/WEB/GGC/branch_name_change.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requesting</a> that members not be dressed in clothing with the old name on it after the first of September “when representing GGC.”
“With the new Embers name, we hope even more girls will see Guiding as a place where they can just be themselves, grow their confidence and explore their talents and interests,” Zelmanovits said. “By taking action and changing the name to Embers, Girl Guides is living our promise to ‘take action for a better world’ and we are showing girls that what they say matters. This is something I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of.”
In 1914, the Brownies were started in England as girls looked to create a group like the Scouts. Initially, they went by the name “Rosebuds,” according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64243976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a>.
After they <a href="https://www.girlguides.ca/web/Documents/GGC/media/media-releases/GGC_Branch_Name_Change_Media_Release_Nov2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they were going to change the name in November, there was a request put in to members to weigh in and cast a vote online to pick an updated title. The two choices were &#8220;Embers or Comets,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/world/americas/girl-guides-canada-embers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
The Girl Guides of Canada first realized that some people didn’t like the name “Brownies” after the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 resulted in widespread protests and riots around the world, according to Zelmanovits, per the Times.

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The Canadian psychology association <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-jordan-peterson-lashes-out-at-canadas-commissars-after-board-threatens-his-medical-license">clashing</a> with Dr Jordan B Peterson over his social media statements has embraced radical gender theory in recent years, even hosting a speaker who told members it is a &#8220;microaggression&#8221; to offer counseling to clients seeking sex changes.
The College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) called out Peterson for his political views on a range of issues and demanded he complete &#8220;<a href="https://members.cpo.on.ca/public_register/show/19846">social media communications retraining</a>&#8221; or face a suspension of his license to operate as a clinical psychologist. The best-selling author and Daily Wire+ host has 3.6 million followers on Twitter and millions more on Instagram and YouTube and frequently weighs in on politics and cultural issues.
&#8220;What exactly have I done that is so seriously unprofessional that I am now a danger not only to any new potential clients but to the public itself?&#8221; Peterson asked in an <a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/my-critics-have-weaponized-the-college-of-psychologists-disciplinary-process-for-political-reasons">article</a> for Canada&#8217;s National Post.
The disciplinary threat may have more to do with Peterson&#8217;s opinions than his methods of communication, given that its embrace of radical gender and race theories runs counter to Peterson&#8217;s decidedly non-woke beliefs.
In July 2020, the college established an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Working Group and published &#8220;A Commitment to Anti-Racism,&#8221; presumably in response to the &#8220;call to action&#8221; from protesters during the George Floyd riots for businesses to adopt Social Justice doctrine. In April 2021, CPO announced a &#8220;gender neutral language&#8221; update and an acknowledgment of &#8220;gender identity,&#8221; a set of ideological beliefs <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-biological-evidence-for-gender-identity-exists-group-of-scientists-researchers-says">unsupported by empirical evidence</a>. 
In June 2021, the Canadian regulatory body introduced Allison Kirschbaum, a self-identified &#8220;queer&#8221; psychologist <a href="https://remedycentre.ca/team/allison-kirschbaum/">whose</a>&#8220;approach is informed by feminist social justice scholarship and is rooted in values of diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppression,&#8221; to give a <a href="https://cpo.on.ca/members/professional-practice/barbara-wand-seminar/barbara-wand-seminar-archives/#june-2021">presentation</a> on &#8220;Ethical Practice in the Context of Sexual and Gender Diversity.&#8221;
According to Dr. Michael Grand, the former CPO <a href="https://cpo.on.ca/presidents-message-april-2021/">president</a>, and current <a href="https://cpo.on.ca/about-cpo/council/committees/">Discipline Committee member</a>, over half of the college&#8217;s membership participated in the seminar. 
The <a href="https://vimeo.com/562191329/67c341385e">presentation</a> included a lesson on the &#8220;Gender Unicorn,&#8221; a graphic intended for children to introduce them to the pseudoscientific concept of &#8220;gender identity,&#8221; created by the activist-led organization Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER). TSER was founded by Eli Erlick, a transgender activist best known for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-activist-eli-erlick-continues-to-boast-of-potentially-illegal-drug-scheme">advertising</a> a potentially illegal drug trafficking scheme on social media that would ship prescription drugs to people, including minors. 
The materials in the presentation include concepts like “assigned sex,” the idea that doctors arbitrarily dictate a person’s biological sex rather than observe and record it.
Kirschbaum recommended to participants the booklet &#8220;A Quick &amp; Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns&#8221; by Archie Bongiovanni, an activist known for selling explicit <a href="https://archiebongiovanni.bigcartel.com/">merchandise</a> like the &#8220;demystify fisting&#8221; patch and a sticker promoting public sex.
The education materials included guides on how to use gender-neutral and neopronouns (like &#8220;ze,&#8221; &#8220;hir,&#8221; and &#8220;they&#8221;) or even “no pronouns.” An example of how to subvert the English language to use neopronouns is provided: &#8220;The book is hirs. Ze identifies outside a gender binary.&#8221;
In part of her presentation, Kirschbaum listed &#8220;common therapist microaggressions,&#8221; which included &#8220;gatekeeping,&#8221; the idea that conducting a proper evaluation of patients and assessing their individual needs might hinder their ability to easily access hormones and surgeries. 
Exploratory psychotherapy, an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-clinical-guidelines-offer-therapeutic-alternative-to-affirming-gender-dysphoric-youth">approach</a> to explore possible underlying factors that might cause distressed youth to experience gender dysphoria, may have spared Chloe Cole the pain of detransition. 
Cole, 18, was recently interviewed by Peterson on his <a href="https://youtu.be/6O3MzPeomqs">podcast</a>. Her story documents how she was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-gives-powerful-testimony-against-gender-affirming-care-at-white-house">introduced</a> to gender ideology online at 11 years old, which led to her self-identification as a transgender boy at 12 years old. Cole was prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone at 13, and received a double mastectomy to remove her breasts at 15, all at the behest of “gender affirming” medical professionals who she says emotionally blackmailed her parents into giving their consent. 
Cole had no history of suicidal ideation, but her parents were given the ultimatum: “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son?” 
“It’s corrupt to the point of malevolence what the medical professionals are doing on this front,” Peterson said of the <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/pediatric-gender-medicine-and-the">affirm-or-suicide</a> narrative deployed by proponents of &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care. Cole is now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-intent-to-sue-kaiser-permanente-for-experimental-hormones-and-surgery">suing</a> the hospital and affiliated medical group that facilitated her medical transition as a minor. 
Canada enacted a <a href="https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-4/royal-assent">law</a> last year banning any form of therapy that does not affirm a child&#8217;s chosen transgender identity by labeling it as &#8220;conversion therapy.&#8221; They succeeded in the ban by equating &#8220;watchful waiting,&#8221; which is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on exploring underlying causes of dysphoria and delaying medical interventions, with the controversial practice of trying to get gays and lesbians to &#8220;convert&#8221; to heterosexuality. 
“It’s actually mandatory by law, in many jurisdictions,” Peterson said on his podcast. “Because of standards of ‘gender-affirming care,’ if you’re a girl and say something like ‘I’m a boy,’ the therapist is now required to agree with you.”
Over 20 states in the United States have also <a href="https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/conversion_therapy">passed laws</a> in recent years banning <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/on-gender-the-aap-has-chosen-ideology">&#8220;conversion therapy&#8221;</a> for both homosexuality and &#8220;gender identity.&#8221; 
While <a href="https://www.elmhurst.edu/news/researcher-simon-levay-talks-about-the-science-of-sexuality/">science</a> has been able to definitively demonstrate a biological basis for same-sex attraction, there is “zero point zero zero” evidence that the concept of  “gender identity” has any scientific basis, <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/01/20844/">according</a> to pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Quentin Van Meter. 
According to an international group of over 100 clinicians and researchers, there is currently<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-biological-evidence-for-gender-identity-exists-group-of-scientists-researchers-says"> no biological evidence</a> for “gender identity” and no laboratory test that can distinguish a trans-identified person from a non-trans-identified person. Despite this, the belief in “gender identity,” determined by sex-based stereotypes and behaviors, is used as the basis for medically transitioning<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-insurance-data-reveals-shocking-number-of-minors-obtained-transgender-surgeries"> thousands</a> of children and adolescents.
As their source of purportedly authoritative information, CPO references the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-declaration-launches-opposition-to-leading-transgender-health-association">denounced</a> internationally by medical and mental health professionals for its “adherence to ideological views unsupported by evidence, its exclusion of ethical concerns, and its mischaracterization of basic science.”
Peterson filed an application for judicial review with the Ontario Divisional Court and said he will refuse to comply with the regulatory body’s findings.

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Canadian Board Threatening Dr Jordan B Peterson’s License Over Tweets Pushes Radical Gender, Race Theories

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This article was originally published by the <a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/my-critics-have-weaponized-the-college-of-psychologists-disciplinary-process-for-political-reasons">National Post</a> in Canada.
The practice of psychology in Ontario, and in many other North American and western jurisdictions, is subject to regulation by “professional colleges” — essentially governmental organizations with a mandate to protect the public from misconduct on the part of physicians, lawyers, social workers, dentists, pharmacists, teachers, architects and many others, including (and most relevant to me) clinical psychologists.
Anyone anywhere in the world can levy a complaint to these regulatory bodies for any reason, regardless of whether the complainant has had any direct contact with the professional in question. The respective colleges have the responsibility to determine whether each complaint is serious and credible enough to warrant further investigation. Complaints can be deemed vexatious or frivolous and dispensed with. When the college decides to move forward, it is a serious move, essentially equivalent to a lawsuit. The <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-college-of-psychologists-jordan-peterson-social-media">Ontario College of Psychologists</a> in fact recommends legal counsel under such conditions.
The Ontario College of Psychologists has levied a multitude of such lawsuits against me since my rise to public prominence six years ago (although none at all in the 20 years or so I practised as a psychologist before that). These have multiplied as of late, and now number more than a dozen. This may seem like a lot (and “where there’s smoke there’s fire,” or so people think), but I might point out that it is difficult to communicate with as many people as I do and to say anything of substance without rubbing at least a few of them the wrong way now and then.
For my crimes, I have been sentenced to a course of mandatory social media communication training with the college’s so-called experts (although social media communication training is not a scientific and certainly not a clinical specialty of any standing). I am to do this at my own expense (some hundreds of dollars per hour) and for a length of time that is to be determined only by those retraining me and profiting from doing so. How will this be determined? When those very re-educators — those experts — have convinced themselves that I have learned my lesson and will behave properly in the future.
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It&#39;s worse than you think in Canada <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>. Regulated professionals are now terrified into silence by their respective colleges. This means they are no longer able to say what they believe to be true. And who needs that from their lawyers, physicians &#8212; or psychologists? <a href="https://t.co/sWvIPVHU0e">https://t.co/sWvIPVHU0e</a>
&mdash; Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1610360115693060096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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If I agree to this, then I must admit that I have been unprofessional in my conduct, and to have that noted publicly, even as the college insists that I am not required to admit to any wrongdoing. If I refuse — and I have (of course) refused — the next step is a mandatory public disciplinary session/inquiry and the possible suspension of my clinical licence (all of which will be also announced publicly).
I should also point out that the steps already taken constitute the second most serious possible response to my transgressions on the part of the college. I have been placed in the category of repeat offender, with high risk of further repetition.
What exactly have I done that is so seriously unprofessional that I am now a danger not only to any new potential clients but to the public itself? It is hard to tell with some of the complaints (one involved the submission of the entire transcript of a three-hour discussion on the Joe Rogan podcast), but here are some examples that might produce some reasonable concern among Canadians who care about such niceties as freedom of belief, conscience and speech:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">I retweeted a comment made by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about the unnecessary severity of the COVID lockdowns;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">I criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">I criticized Justin Trudeau’s former chief of staff, Gerald Butts;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">I criticized an Ottawa city councillor; and</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">I made a joke about the prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern.</li>
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I did all that “disrespectfully,” by the way, in a “horrific” manner that spread “misinformation”; that was “threatening” and “harassing”; that was “embarrassing to the profession.” I am also (these are separate offenses) sexist, transphobic, incapable of the requisite body positivity in relationship to morbid obesity and, unforgivably of all, a climate change denialist.
Every single one of these accusations (and now accepted evidence of my professional misconduct) is independent of my clinical practice — which, by the way, has been suspended since 2017, when my rising notoriety or fame made continuing as a private therapist practically and ethically impossible. Every single accusation is not only independent of my clinical practice, but explicitly political — and not only that: unidirectionally explicitly political. Every single thing I have been sentenced to correction for saying is insufficiently Leftist, politically. I’m simply too classically liberal — or, even more unforgivably — conservative.
For criticizing our prime minister and his cronies and peers, for retweeting Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the official Opposition in Canada, and for holding and for daring to express reprehensible political views, I have now been convicted by the College of Psychologists of “harming” people in some manner serious enough to justify my forced re-education. Now that I have refused, I will definitely face further exceptionally public, demanding, time-consuming and expensive disciplinary action, including the suspension of my licence. This, despite the fact that none of the people whose complaints are being currently pursued were ever clients of mine, or even knew clients of mine, or even knew or were acquainted with any of the people they claim I am harming. This, despite the fact (and please attend to this) that half the people who levied such complaints falsely claimed that they had in fact been or currently are clients of mine.
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To clarify: it&#39;s been decided: I either submit to social media communication retraining or face a disciplinary hearing and possible suspension of my clinical license and the right to represent myself as a psychologist <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CPOntario?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CPOntario</a> <a href="https://t.co/qmsje8flyN">https://t.co/qmsje8flyN</a>
&mdash; Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1610391120403468292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It may be of some interest to note that I wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, informing him of this situation. Here is the letter, for public consideration — which by necessity repeats some of what I have just covered in this introduction:
<blockquote>Dear Prime Minister Trudeau:
I thought it my duty to inform you and your office of the following proceedings against me. 
The Ontario College of Psychologists, the provincial government-mandated and supported professional body charged with regulating the practice of clinical psychology, is requiring that I undergo a lengthy course of “media training” so that I “more appropriately” conduct my online communication. This is occurring, by the way, despite my 20 years as a research psychologist at Harvard University and the University of Toronto (with an unblemished behavioural reputation), my extensive clinical experience and my history of bringing psychological knowledge to people around the world.
Some 15-million people currently follow me on three main social media platforms, and the overwhelming majority of them appear to regard my words and the particular manner in which I formulate them as interesting, helpful and productive — some real evidence to the contrary with regard to the college’s accusations. 
I have rejected this forced re-education request, and will in consequence soon be required to appear in front of an in-person “disciplinary hearing” to bring me into line — with the threat of the revocation of my clinical licence, and the public exposure and implied disgrace that would accompany that, hanging over my head. 
It may be of interest to you to note that all of the complaints against me: (1) were brought by people with whom I had zero clinical contact; (2) have nothing whatsoever to do with my function as a clinical psychologist (except in the broadest possible public sense); and, most importantly with regard to this letter, (3) that half of them involve nothing more than political criticisms of you or the people around you (with all the remainder being complaints generated because I dared state some essentially conservative philosophical beliefs). 
As the enclosed documentation indicates, I am being investigated and disciplined for, among a few other reasons not germane to my present communication with you:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">retweeting Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s official Opposition;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">criticizing you, your former chief of staff Gerald Butts, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern and an Ottawa city councillor; and</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">objecting to the Ottawa police threatening to apprehend the children of the trucker convoy protesters.</li>
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I am not suggesting or even presuming that you or any of the people associated with you had anything directly to do with this. However, the fact that it is happening (and that physicians and lawyers have become as terrified as psychologists now are of their own regulatory bodies) is something that has definitely happened on your watch, as a consequence of your own conduct and the increasingly compulsion-based and ideologically pure policies that you have promoted and legislated.
I simply cannot resign myself to the fact that in my lifetime I am required to resort to a public letter to the leader of my country to point out that political criticism has now become such a crime in Canada that if professionals dare engage in such activity, government-appointed commissars will threaten their livelihood and present them with the spectacle of denouncement and political disgrace.
There is simply and utterly no excuse whatsoever for such a state of affairs in a free country. 
Jordan B Peterson, PhD, C. Psych (for now)
Professor emeritus, University of Toronto</blockquote>
Why should Canadians who read this care? Perhaps those reading in this country (and elsewhere) might ask themselves the following questions — and in all seriousness, painful as it might be do so; requiring as it does the almost unbelievable admission that something has gone dreadfully wrong in our lovely country:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">What makes you think that something similar won’t happen to you, or to someone you know and respect or even love?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">What makes you think you are going to continue to be able to communicate honestly with your physicians, lawyers and psychologists (and representatives of many other regulated professions) if they are now so terrified of their regulatory boards that they can no longer tell you the truth?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">What are your children going to be taught when all their teachers (that’s a regulated profession, too) are so afraid of the woke mob that they swallow all the ideological lies that are now required of pedagogues — regardless if they believe what they are saying?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Where are we going to be if we allow criticism of the public figures charged with the privilege of our governance to be grounds for the demolition of not only the critic’s reputation but their very livelihood?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How far are we willing to go down this road, without forthright resistance?</li>
</ul>
In any case: I’m not complying. I’m not submitting to re-education. I am not admitting that my viewpoints — many of which have, by the way, been entirely justified by the facts that have emerged since the complaints were levied — were either wrong or unprofessional. I’m going to say what I have to say, and let the chips fall where they will. I have done nothing to compromise those in my care; quite the contrary — I have served all my clients and the millions of people I am communicating with to the best of my ability and in good faith, and that’s that.
And to the College of Psychologists, I issue this challenge: I am absolutely willing to make every single word of this legal battle fully public, so that the issue of my professional competence and my right to say what I have to say and stand by my words can be fought in full daylight. I would and could post all the correspondence with and accusations levied by those who complained about me and the college itself public, and will do so, if the college agrees. But I can’t, on legal grounds justified in normal times but rendered specious by the dominion of the politically correct and radical. I can’t, because of this, and because it is not in the interest of the college or the complainants they are sheltering and abetting to allow it. They’ll cite confidentiality concerns for their refusal, because it’s 100 percent OK for them to come after me publicly while they and those who complained hide cravenly and cowardly behind a wall of self-serving and self-protective silence.
And this of course does little but embolden those who have learned to weaponize college disciplinary processes, and to give the accuser and his or her lackeys the upper hand, practically and legally. And such weaponization risks placing all our once justly trusted institutions firmly in the hands of those willing and able to manipulate them for reasons both political and personal.
The sad and sorry state of this once-great Dominion at the dawn of 2023 … and it’s still going to get worse before it gets better.
<a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast">listen</a> to or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">watch</a> his popular lectures on DailyWire+.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Jordan Peterson: I Will Risk My Licence To Escape Social Media Re-Education

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<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus-jordan-peterson?utm_campaign=peterson&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;cid=peterson&amp;mid=b&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_term=Jordan%20Peterson%20Daily%20Wire&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_cam=440230234&amp;hsa_grp=1327112046299949&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=o&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-82945323862515:loc-190&amp;hsa_kw=Jordan%20Peterson%20Daily%20Wire&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;msclkid=249a547e8dc51278bad737cade4b0e13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr Jordan B Peterson</a> blasted Canada’s “commissars” and penned a scathing letter to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-trudeau-celebrates-drag-queens-on-television/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau</a> Tuesday after a leading association of his fellow psychologists threatened to go after his license to practice clinical psychology over social media criticisms of the nation’s far-Left government.
The College of Psychologists of Ontario ordered the best-selling author and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire+</a> host to undergo “social media communications retraining” or face a hearing on the potential suspension of his license. In the letter to Trudeau, Peterson vowed not to participate in the process and decried the effort to stifle free speech.
“I simply cannot resign myself to the fact that in my lifetime I am required to resort to a public letter to the leader of my country to point out that political criticism has now become such a crime in Canada that if professionals dare engage in such activity, government-appointed commissars will threaten their livelihood and present them with the spectacle of denouncement and political disgrace,” Peterson wrote. “There is simply and utterly no excuse whatsoever for such a state of affairs in a free country.”
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BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists <a href="https://twitter.com/CPOntario?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CPOntario</a> has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting <a href="https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PierrePoilievre</a> and criticizing <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> and his political allies.
&mdash; Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1610307938438053888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The current grievance against Peterson is just the latest of several investigated by the college, with prior complaints having been dismissed. Peterson’s latest alleged transgressions include retweeting Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s criticism of Trudeau, blasting Trudeau’s former senior aide, Gerald Butts, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeting opposition to a plan by Ottawa police to take custody of the children of the Trucker Convoy protesters, and telling <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/joe-rogan-guest-jordan-peterson-says-being-trans-is-a-contagion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan’s podcast audience</a> that acceptance of radical gender theory is a sign of “civilizations collapsing” and that climate change models are unreliable.
Peterson called Butts a “stunningly corrupt and incendiary fool” and a “prik” in a pair of February tweets. In another tweet in February, at the height of Canada’s trucker protest against vaccine mandates, Peterson called Trudeau a “Puppet.” The tweets were among a tranche sent to the college in early March by an anonymous complainant.
College Executive Director Rick Morris said he reviewed the tweets, as well as a transcript from Peterson’s January 25, 2022, appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and determined they warranted an investigation. The probe appears to have been expanded to include subsequent social media posts by Peterson, including a May Twitter post in which he criticized Sports Illustrated for putting plus-sized swimsuit model Yumi Nu on the cover.
“Sorry. Not beautiful,” he wrote. &#8220;And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.”
He also tweeted that movie star Ellen Page, who now claims to be a man and goes by Elliot Page, had a mastectomy performed “by a criminal physician.”
The college is a government-regulated association that regulates and has the authority to sanction psychologists, ostensibly to protect the health and safety of workers and the public. But Peterson charged that the Ontario professional organization has been hounding him since 2017, when his viral video lectures made him an international star who now boasts 15 million followers on YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram.
“I was never investigated for anything for the 20 years I practiced prior to my emergence on the public scene,” said Peterson, who first ran afoul of the progressive Trudeau regime when he railed against a law that made it a crime not to use the preferred pronouns of transgender people.
Because the college is obligated to probe any written complaint filed against a member, Peterson said he has been buffeted with investigations, many of which were prompted by anonymous calls.
One accused him of being “transphobic, sexist, and racist” for simply posting online an article from Crisis magazine that accused the transgender movement of targeting autistic children. Another complaint was spurred in part by Peterson’s contention that “the racial divide continues apace, fueled by identity politics.” A 2020 complaint claimed Peterson had signed a document used in a child custody case and was dismissed when Peterson showed the purported signature was a forgery lifted from Wikipedia.
Although the complaints were ultimately dismissed, Peterson said they were part of a pattern through which his critics have weaponized the professional organization against him.
“As a Member of the College, and in light of your public profile, you may wish to offer your opinions and comments in a respectful tone in order to avoid a negative perception toward the profession of psychology,” the college advised him after several complaints were dismissed.
Last year, Peterson was taken to task by the college after telling a scientist who said overpopulation was a threat to the planet that he was “free to leave at any point.” When the college opened an investigation, Peterson declined to cooperate.
“Take whatever steps you deem necessary,” he said at the time. “I am simply not going to spend the hours and days required to undergo the unbelievably stressful process necessary to respond to this formally because one of the millions of people who follow me on social media took offense to one thing I said at one point.”
While Peterson’s clashes with the college may be partly due to the unusual circumstance of a member and practicing psychologist also being an internationally recognized thought leader, he said the constant battles show the “process is the punishment.” Peterson claims several of his peers, both in medicine and academia, have been “intimidated into silence and lies by their governing bodies.”
“Can you trust a physician who is afraid to tell you the truth when you’re ill — or, more importantly, when your children are?” he mused in a response to the college. “Can you trust a psychologist who is required by law to agree with what you think and who will not ask you pertinent questions on pain of their license?”

The Self-styled “Professor Against Political Correctness” Jordan Peterson Speaks To The Cambridge Union

Dr Jordan Peterson Blasts Canada’s ‘Commissars’ After Board Threatens His License

Dr Jordan Peterson Blasts At Canada's 'Commissars' After Board Threatens His License

One of the eight <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/teenagers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teenage</a> girls charged with surrounding a man in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/toronto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toronto</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canada</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stabbing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stabbing</a> him to death has been granted bail.
The teenager, whose name has not been released because she is a minor, has been required to surrender her passport, give up her cellphone, stay in Ontario, and only leave the house with supervision, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/one-eight-teen-girls-charged-toronto-stabbing-death-granted-bail-2022-12-29/">reported</a>. She also has been prohibited from going online except for school.
The other seven defendants have been remanded into custody and will appear in court on January 5 to schedule bail hearings.
The group of teenage girls, some as young as 13, allegedly “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eight-teenage-girls-swarmed-a-man-and-stabbed-him-to-death-in-toronto-police-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">swarmed</a>” a man living in a shelter and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stabbing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stabbed</a> him to death. The victim, a 59-year-old man who had been living in a shelter, has not been identified as police are still notifying his family members. The man was found with multiple stab wounds shortly after 12 a.m. on the morning of December 18 when police received a call about an assault, Toronto police said in <a href="https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/54716/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> earlier this month. The victim was taken to a hospital but died of his injuries.
“It was learned early on that the suspects being described in this were eight young females,” Detective Sergeant Terry Browne said at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVpzefaLv4w">a press conference</a> on December 20.
The teens were arrested soon after the attack and charged with second-degree murder. Three were just 13 years old, while another three were 14, and two were 16.
“What we’ve gleaned so far is that these eight individuals met via social media, they all come from varying parts of the city, and we don’t know how or why they met on that evening. We don’t know why they met downtown,” Browne said at the press conference. “We don’t know how long they’ve been [acquainted] with each other.”
“I wouldn’t describe them as a gang at this point but what is alleged to have occurred that evening is what we would traditionally call a swarming,” Browne added.
“Swarming” refers to an incident in which multiple attackers target a victim together, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/us/toronto-stabbing-teens-arrested/index.html">reported</a>.
Browne also noted that three of the girls had “prior contact” with police, but didn’t elaborate.
The detective sergeant said that the group of girls was also involved in an altercation earlier the same night in the same area and that a “number of weapons were secured” once the group was arrested, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgp3pd/toronto-teen-girls-stabbing?fbclid=IwAR1r7J9U-JBnyQhu6kPyTRmXcStFnlqsXAeoyGOE-iLPS0hJBNkHPECKk4Y">according</a> to Vice.
Police wouldn’t describe the victim as homeless, but did say he was “living in the shelter system” due to recent “hard luck.” The victim apparently had been staying in a shelter since the fall, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/canada-police-arrest-8-teen-girls-swarming-allegedly-stabbing-homeless-man-death-toronto-street">reported</a>.
“He does have a very supportive family in the area,” Browne said at the press conference.

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One Of Eight Teen Girls Who Allegedly Stabbed Man To Death In Toronto Released On Bail

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A group of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/teenagers">teenage</a> girls, some as young as 13, “swarmed” a man living in a shelter and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stabbing">stabbed</a> him to death, police in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/toronto">Toronto</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada">Canada</a>, say.
The victim, a 59-year-old man who had been living in a shelter, has not been identified as police are still notifying his family members. The man was found with multiple stab wounds shortly after 12 a.m. Sunday morning when police received a call about an assault, Toronto police said in <a href="https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/54716/">a press release</a>. The victim was taken to a hospital but died of his injuries.
“It was learned early on that the suspects being described in this were eight young females,” Detective Sergeant Terry Browne said at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVpzefaLv4w">a press conference</a> on Tuesday.
The teens were arrested soon after the attack and charged with second-degree murder. Three were just 13 years old, while another three were 14, and two were 16.
“What we’ve gleaned so far is that these eight individuals met via social media, they all come from varying parts of the city, and we don’t know how or why they met on that evening. We don’t know why they met downtown,” Browne said at the press conference. “We don’t know how long they’ve been acquitted with each other.”
“I wouldn’t describe them as a gang at this point but what is alleged to have occurred that evening is what we would traditionally call a swarming,” Browne added.
“Swarming” refers to an incident in which multiple attackers target a victim together, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/us/toronto-stabbing-teens-arrested/index.html">reported</a>.
Browne also noted that three of the girls had “prior contact” with police, but didn’t elaborate.
The detective sergeant said that the group of girls was also involved in an altercation earlier the same night in the same area and that a “number of weapons were secured” once the group was arrested, Vice <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgp3pd/toronto-teen-girls-stabbing?fbclid=IwAR1r7J9U-JBnyQhu6kPyTRmXcStFnlqsXAeoyGOE-iLPS0hJBNkHPECKk4Y">reported</a>.
Police wouldn’t describe the victim as homeless, but did say he was “living in the shelter system” due to recent &#8220;hard luck.” The victim apparently had been staying in a shelter since the fall, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/canada-police-arrest-8-teen-girls-swarming-allegedly-stabbing-homeless-man-death-toronto-street">reported</a>.
&#8220;He does have a very supportive family in the area,” Browne said at the press conference.
The teenagers appeared in court at 10 a.m. Sunday morning and were remanded into custody. Their next court appearance is set for December 29.
Police continue to investigate the incident and have asked for the public’s help in obtaining any video or information relating to the suspects’ whereabouts that evening or any video surveillance that may show the attack.

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Eight Teenage Girls 'Swarmed' A Man And Stabbed Him To Death In Toronto, Police Say

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An elderly resident of a luxury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/serial-killer-confesses-murdering-eight-men-james-barrett/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toronto</a>-area condo building went door-to-door, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gunning down members of the complex’s board</a> Sunday night before police moved in and took him down, authorities said.
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The unidentified 73-year-old man shot and killed five people believed to be board members of the Bellaria Towers in suburban Vaughan during a rampage that began around 7:30 p.m. When police arrived, the man confronted them and was shot dead.
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“There is no further threat to the community at this point,” York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween said late Sunday. “We offer our sincere condolences to the victims and their families.”
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One other person was shot by the gunman, but survived and is expected to recover, authorities said. MacSween did not identify a motive or confirm if the gunman was a building resident. The victims were not identified pending notification of their loved ones.
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The crime scene was the “most terrible call I’ve seen in my entire career,” <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/18/world/condo-shooting-vaughan-canada/index.html">Constable Laura Nicolle told CNN</a>. She said all of the dead were killed in separate apartments. Ontario&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit was assisting local authorities in the investigation.
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Vaughan is located 20 miles north of Toronto.
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One resident described the neighborhood as quiet and safe. 
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“We wouldn’t imagine seeing that in our buildings, right, but nowadays you see everything,” the man <a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/12/18/vaughan-condo-shooting-suspect/">told CityNews</a>.
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Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca tweeted about the incident early Monday.
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“On behalf of the City of Vaughan and council, I offer my condolences to the families of the victims killed in the shootings that occurred in the area of Jane Street and Rutherford Road,” Del Luca wrote. “I want to recognize the brave first responders who are working to safeguard the situation.”
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It was not disclosed what kind of gun the killer used, but the sale of handguns was banned by the Canadian government earlier this year. Mass shootings are rare in Canada, although in 2020, a 51-year-old denture salesman disguised as a police officer gunned down 22 people in Nova Scotia before being shot dead by police. In September, 11 people were killed and another 18 were stabbed in an indigenous community in Saskatchewan.
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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian</a> university is embarking on a project to fundamentally alter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/physics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">physics</a> as a science by &#8220;decolonizing light.&#8221;
A group of researchers across disciplines from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, is working on the project, which seeks to change the way the science of physics is perceived as an academic discipline, according to a report from <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholars-work-at-decolonizing-light-to-combat-colonialism-in-contemporary-physics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>. The project took aim at light specifically because it is ubiquitous across cultures and used in a number of scientific fields.
&#8220;The Decolonizing Light project explores ways and approaches to decolonize science, such as revitalizing and restoring Indigenous knowledges, and capacity building,&#8221; the <a href="https://decolonizinglight.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> for the project states. &#8220;The project aims to developing a culture of critical reflection and investigation of the relation of science and colonialism.&#8221;
Established in 2021, the project is led by <a href="https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/tanja-tajmel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tanja Tajmel</a>, a special equity, diversity, and inclusion advisor to the dean of Concordia University and an Associate Professor at the university&#8217;s Centre for Engineering in Society. Also leading the project are Associate Professor of &#8220;First Peoples Studies,&#8221; <a href="https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/louellyn-white.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louellyn White</a>, and Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry and Biochemistry, <a href="https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/physics/faculty.html?fpid=ingo-salzmann" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ingo Salzmann</a>.
The project boasts a roster of 15 collaborators, including: Concordia &#8220;Indigenous pedagogy adviser&#8221; <a href="https://explore.concordia.ca/index.php/donna-kaherakwas-goodleaf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf</a>; environmental researcher and chemistry researcher Gregor Kos; three representatives from the Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office (KEPO), an indigenous environmental advocacy group; University of Toronto astronomer and indigenous activist Hilding Neilson; and 9 graduate and undergraduate workers. The project also features collaboration from five researchers at major universities around the world.
The project also has the financial backing of the <a href="https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/about-au_sujet-eng.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Frontiers in Research Fund</a>. The NFRE is a research fund established by the Canadian government in 2018 to support &#8220;interdisciplinary, high-risk/high-reward, transformative research led by Canadian researchers working with Canadian and international partners.&#8221;
&#8220;This fund seeks to inspire innovative research projects that push boundaries into exciting new areas and that have the potential to deliver game-changing impacts,&#8221; the NFRE website states.
In a <a href="https://pic-pac.cap.ca/index.php/Issues/showpdf/article/v77n1.0-a4130.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021 paper</a> outlining the project, Salzmann, White, Goodleaf, and Tajmel said that the &#8220;unique scientific authority&#8221; of physics was the reason they targeted it. &#8220;Physics is commonly regarded as the &#8216;most objective&#8217; and the &#8216;hardest’ science, it fundamentally defines scientific key concepts such as energy, matter, force, light, space and time, for all the other sciences,&#8221; the professors wrote. &#8220;For our purpose, it is important to understand physics as a social field rather than as &#8216;pure knowledge&#8217; independent from social values and decisions.&#8221;
The professors chose light specifically &#8220;because light is ubiquitous in every society, language and culture. In everyday life, light is a key element that defines familiar aspects like color and warmth. In physics, light is exploited as the primary carrier of information about nature (e.g., in astronomy), used as the primary probe for the fundamental properties of matter (e.g., in spectroscopy),&#8221; and researched at major facilities like the Canadian Light Source in Saskatchewan, the professors added.
&#8220;The purpose of our project is not to find new or better explanations of light; we are not seeking to improve scientific 
‘truth,’” they continued. &#8220;Rather, our project initiatives are motivated by the marginalization of women, Black people, and Indigenous peoples, particularly in physics. We regard marginalization as a key problem for social equity as well as for scientific quality. Furthermore, we regard scientific knowledge that reproduces bias and colonial power relations as non-acceptable.&#8221;
The project is still active. According to their website, the last event was &#8220;An Evening of Indigenous Star Stories with Cree Astronomer Wilfred Buck,&#8221; on October 26.

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Students in Canada have reportedly been &#8220;threatened with suspension&#8221; if they take photos of a biologically male shop teacher who wears enormous fetish breast prosthetics while teaching children.
The Halton District School Board (HDSB) has said the biologically male teacher, Kayla Lemieux, can wear the insanely large fetish breasts with giant protruding nipples with no punishment, but students who take snaps of Lemieux are another story entirely, the <a href="https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-students-not-to-take-pictures-of-trans-shop-teacher?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1671108109">Toronto Sun</a> reported.
Some parents told the outlet that high school students have been warned against capturing video or images of the Oakville Trafalgar High School teacher or face &#8220;suspension if they attempt to.&#8221;
&#8220;I can tell you that the HDSB does have a &#8216;Responsible Use Procedures for Information and Communications Technology&#8217; policy,&#8221; HDSB school board spokesperson Heather Francey shared with the outlet when asked about the complaints from students and parents.
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&#8220;It is routine practice for students to obtain permission of any subject at any time (including other students, staff or any person) before capturing, using and transmitting images or video,&#8221; the spokesperson added. &#8220;This policy helps guide that standard courtesy across our board.&#8221; The entire section of the policy can be seen <a href="https://www.hdsb.ca/our-board/Policy/ResponsibleUseICT.pdf#search=Responsible%20Use%20Procedures%20for%20Information%20and%20Communications%20Technology’%20policy%2C">here</a>.
Despite the warnings, the outlet noted that images had recently been taken and shared online showing Lemieux trying to get around the school with the help of crutches and a boot on the right foot, following some kind of reported foot injury.
Parents and students protested in September over the high school teacher, but the school and board at the time stood by the teacher. The school board showed support for the teacher wearing the fetish breasts and shared that it strives to ensure that kids have a &#8220;positive learning environment,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-district-defends-trans-shop-teacher-whose-enormous-fake-breasts-spurred-internet-furor">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
The board eventually decided to take up the matter following extensive media coverage after pictures and videos surfaced of the shop teacher instructing children while wearing the massive prosthetic breasts and a blonde wig.
The Ontario school board said that after reviewing its dress code, it has decided that preventing Lemieux, from wearing the insanely large breasts prosthetics would result in &#8220;considerable liability,&#8221; as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canada-school-board-decides-on-whether-male-teacher-can-continue-wearing-enormous-fetish-breast-prosthetics">reported</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/take-your-fetish-behind-a-closed-door-megyn-kelly-blows-up-at-canadian-school-for-allowing-trans-shop-teacher-with-enormous-breasts-prosthetics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Take Your Fetish Behind A Closed Door&#8217;: Megyn Kelly Blows Up At Canadian School For Allowing Trans Shop Teacher With Enormous Breasts Prosthetics</a>

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Report: Students ‘Threatened With Suspension’ If They Take Photos Of Trans Shop Teacher With Enormous Fake Breasts

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