Juno News - October 25, 2022


A growing anti-woke movement in Canada’s schools


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

188.83131

Word Count

656

Sentence Count

41

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The latest Ontario municipal elections were a pretty sleepy affair in terms of
00:00:04.320 big-ticket questions about who's going to be the next mayor of Toronto, things like that.
00:00:08.520 But one of the angles that a lot of people picked up as being noticeable
00:00:12.040 was school trustee races. And there's a lot of contentious stuff, a lot of conversation,
00:00:17.280 excitement perhaps about those races, because there was a whole slate of candidates in different
00:00:22.740 cities and different parts of Ontario who were running as anti-woke candidates, candidates who
00:00:27.880 were frustrated with a progressive ideology being forced on children through curriculum or through
00:00:33.620 things that individual schools or school boards are doing. Some of them were particularly upset with
00:00:38.220 a transgender ideology being pushed on kids excessively. And they were talking about that
00:00:43.360 during their campaign. This got a lot of people talking. There were news articles out there that
00:00:47.660 quite frankly were almost semi-libelous about some of these candidates, one particular CBC feature.
00:00:52.780 Regardless, the conversation began. And what was the result of it at Monday night's elections?
00:00:58.140 Well, they didn't fare too well. I would say by and large, most of those candidates
00:01:01.760 did not succeed, did not go on to be trustees. If anything, something of a step backwards.
00:01:07.260 We saw a prominent Twitter doctor, Dr. Nillie Kaplan-Mirth. She won her seat to be
00:01:11.540 an Ottawa area school trustee. She has said that children need to keep wearing masks at all times.
00:01:16.960 She said just actually a few days ago, she posted she plans to keep masking forever. Forever? That was
00:01:22.300 her phrase. So you can say, okay, well, that wasn't really a step forward for people who want
00:01:27.140 to sort of liberate kids from these sort of issues being pushed upon them. But what I think is the
00:01:32.440 most interesting takeaway is that the conversation happened. That people step forward to run as
00:01:39.160 trustees under a sort of anti-woke platform. And that there was a lot of interest out there, even if
00:01:44.420 some of the interest was for people to mischaracterize them. Because in the United States,
00:01:48.340 wow, they've really got something going on in that direction. And they are, they are overturning
00:01:52.980 a lot of incumbents, and they are really getting a parents rights movement happening in the United
00:01:57.580 States in terms of people upset with the fact that they've realized, hey, we've been busy talking
00:02:02.040 about who's going to be president, who's going to be governor. Meanwhile, there have been people
00:02:05.300 getting into these positions at the school boards, and they've been doing radical things that we're
00:02:08.940 unhappy about. So now we're in a position in Ontario where I think people are at least aware of that
00:02:14.360 angle. They're aware of that fact, and they know trusty races do matter. And these are,
00:02:19.740 for better or worse, now battlegrounds for so many broader issues, things that are discussed
00:02:25.360 in broader society, and the ways that some people want to really force those issues upon children.
00:02:31.560 And that really, a lot of people just want to get the politicization, the race-based ideologies,
00:02:38.160 the divisive stuff, the cultural stuff, they want to get that out of the school system. And
00:02:42.440 they're seeing that there's too much of it going on right now. And I think that's resonating
00:02:45.880 with a lot of parents, even nonpartisan parents who just say, well, hold on a second. I just want
00:02:50.200 the kids to get a just the facts education to prepare them for adult life. So my guess is while
00:02:55.680 these candidates weren't victorious, this time around, we're going to see more and more interest
00:03:00.320 in this, more and more people get in the game, more and more people watching the school board meetings
00:03:04.520 because they've concluded this is a level of government, a level of elections that matters.
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