Juno News - B.C. university hires exclusively black applicants

00:00:00.000 The UK's net-zero minister gushed over Prime Minister Mark Carney at COP30 in Brazil,

00:00:06.700 lauding him as a, quote, climate leader.

00:00:10.120 ABC University is advertising hiring for faculty positions exclusively based on the skin color of applicants.

00:00:16.180 The left-wing Brazilian government is facing criticism over hosting three diesel-guzzling cruise ships

00:00:22.460 while it hosts world elites to talk about climate policies during COP30.

00:00:27.440 Hello, Canada. It's Wednesday, November 12th, and this is the True North Daily Brief.

00:00:32.500 I'm Cosmin Georgia.

00:00:33.960 And I'm Wally Tam-Tam.

00:00:35.220 We've got you covered with all the news you need to know.

00:00:38.520 Let's discuss the top stories of the day and the True North exclusives you won't hear anywhere else.

00:00:46.660 At the United Nations COP30 climate summit in Brazil,

00:00:51.160 UK's net-zero minister and former Labour leader, Ed Miliband,

00:00:55.600 offered glowing praise for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling him a, quote,

00:01:01.240 great guy and a good friend.

00:01:04.320 True North journalist Wally Tam-Tam caught up with Miliband outside a COP30 event in Belém, Brazil.

00:01:11.620 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer had delivered an address at the conference's prelude

00:01:16.700 alongside Prince William last week.

00:01:19.380 When asked about Carney's leadership and climate policy record, Miliband replied,

00:01:24.660 quote,

00:01:25.160 I think Mark Carney's a great guy, he's a good friend of mine,

00:01:29.400 and I believe he's a really important climate leader.

00:01:32.920 Asked if he and Carney were still in contact and planning to collaborate on climate initiatives,

00:01:38.940 Miliband added, absolutely.

00:01:40.700 Just a question for Ottawa, what are your thoughts on Mark Carney's climate leadership?

00:01:44.700 I think Mark Carney's a great guy, he's a good friend of mine,

00:01:48.580 and I believe he's a really important climate leader.

00:01:51.060 Are you still in touch with him? Are you guys looking forward to getting closer in the future?

00:01:54.200 Absolutely.

00:01:54.980 Tens of thousands of delegates, including a Canadian contingent,

00:01:58.820 led by Environment Minister Julie Dabrussin,

00:02:02.180 and Canadian Identity Minister Stephen Guilbeau,

00:02:05.360 are attending the United Nations' latest climate conference in the Amazon.

00:02:10.580 Carney, who served as governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020,

00:02:16.340 has been a central figure in the global climate finance movement.

00:02:20.700 He has used his influence in banking and government to push for aggressive decarbonization targets

00:02:26.440 and ESG-driven investment policies.

00:02:29.360 While Carney chose not to attend COP30 himself, his allies are well represented.

00:02:35.360 So, Waleed, you are there right now.

00:02:37.720 You're in Brazil at COP30.

00:02:39.820 What are some of the things you've heard?

00:02:42.000 Has the Canadian delegation arrived yet?

00:02:45.140 What have they said?

00:02:46.440 Yeah, so this morning, for now, it's a one-minister team.

00:02:49.700 It's Julia Dabrussin, who arrived this morning,

00:02:52.700 and I tried speaking with her.

00:02:54.320 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get anything out of her yet.

00:02:57.160 As you will see later on, she's been deflecting questions,

00:03:00.420 and her staff have been doing everything possible to keep her away from me.

00:03:03.780 The sole Canadian journalist going after her for information that Canadian people want to know.

00:03:09.140 Like, what are the costs that we are incurring?

00:03:11.500 What are the commitments we are making?

00:03:12.860 What is the dollar figure amount that we are committing to these different UN and globalist initiatives on the environment?

00:03:20.380 I heard that Stephen Goebo is set to arrive today, actually.

00:03:26.600 So, I was told on Monday that he'll be arriving at midnight,

00:03:29.940 and then he'll be around for Tuesday morning.

00:03:32.180 So, we'll see if we can catch up with him before I depart.

00:03:34.820 I watched Dabrussin's brief remarks, but three minutes' worth of remarks on Remembrance Day,

00:03:43.120 discussing the importance of remembrance and preserving a two-minute moment of silence.

00:03:48.760 And, of course, her team was all present there,

00:03:51.500 and that was basically the only event she had at the pavilion that was publicly available.

00:03:55.920 Everything else was her interacting behind closed doors with other delegates from other countries

00:04:00.000 and other bilateral meetings she had all evening long.

00:04:03.480 But that was the first day we had any Canadian minister whatsoever,

00:04:06.920 the first day where Canada was represented by someone else besides the ambassador to Brazil.

00:04:12.480 And, of course, I guess that team will only get bigger as the days at COP30 go on.

00:04:20.400 Simon Fraser University fully embraced race-based hiring

00:04:23.960 with an advertisement for faculty position exclusively restricted to black applicants.

00:04:28.860 A tenor-track posting in Philosophy says the competition is limited to applicants who, quote, 0.96

00:04:35.260 self-identify as black.

00:04:37.900 Applicants must first complete an applicant demographic survey.

00:04:43.180 Another posting in the School of Criminology applies the same race restriction,

00:04:47.520 warning that candidates who do not complete the survey, quote,

00:04:50.460 will not be considered.

00:04:52.260 The posting states that the demographic survey responses will be used to determine their appropriateness

00:04:57.120 for the position alongside their experience and qualifications.

00:05:01.580 Simon Fraser University says race-restricted hiring is part of a special program supported

00:05:06.580 by the BC Human Rights Commissioner.

00:05:09.600 The university received approval from the commissioner to limit recruitment.

00:05:14.100 Simon Fraser University plans to hire at least, quote,

00:05:16.860 15 black tenor-track faculty and 15 black staff by 2028 to address what it calls systemic discrimination.

00:05:27.580 The demographic survey asks applicants to report indigenous identity, racial identity, gender identity,

00:05:34.200 sexual orientation, and disability status.

00:05:36.540 The postings say these questions help the university meet Canada research chair's targets

00:05:43.680 to enhance equity and remove systemic barriers to recruitment.

00:05:49.120 Cosmin, how on earth is this legal?

00:05:51.560 Is there something in Canada's constitution that makes racial discrimination permissible in this case?

00:05:58.000 Well, look, Walid, under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms,

00:06:01.580 discrimination on the basis of race is prohibited.

00:06:06.760 But there are exceptions, believe it or not, and this has been kind of adjudicated in the quasi-court system

00:06:15.100 of human rights tribunals, at least in Ontario.

00:06:19.140 There are appeals to subsections that essentially say that within Canadian law,

00:06:25.660 you're allowed to have special programs designed, or so-called, rather, designed to help disadvantaged groups.

00:06:36.500 So basically, if an institution argues that a policy is meant to fix historical inequality,

00:06:44.400 it can get a green light to treat people differently based on things like race, gender, or identity.

00:06:51.300 And that seems to be what Simon Fraser University is doing here,

00:06:56.900 and plenty of other organizations, institutions, both public and not,

00:07:02.760 have used this to sort of segregate people based on identifiable race characteristics.

00:07:09.480 The Brazilian government is under fire as the host of COP30 for using three diesel-guzzling cruise ships

00:07:19.720 to house climate conference attendees, sparking outrage over the summit's real carbon footprint.

00:07:26.780 In order to accommodate thousands of foreign delegations and politicians,

00:07:31.260 the Brazilian government docked three gas-guzzling ships at the docks of the host city,

00:07:36.300 one reserved for President Lula, while the other two were reserved for commercial use.

00:07:41.740 According to a report by Brazilian media outlet Revista Oeste,

00:07:46.720 Lula's own vessel consumes approximately 135 liters of diesel fuel per hour.

00:07:53.580 The boat remains docked in Baleim, where the summit is taking place and are being used as a floating hotel

00:08:01.220 due to a shortage of upscale accommodations in the city.

00:08:04.700 The magazine reports that the cost of renting the boat is being covered by taxpayers under federal government expenses,

00:08:11.600 though officials have not been transparent about the full cost.

00:08:15.760 The vessel features private suites, dining facilities, and conference rooms for meetings during the international climate event.

00:08:23.580 Waleed, while you're there, what are some of the other points of contention or controversy

00:08:28.200 that you're hearing about the Brazilian governments, particularly around climate hypocrisy during the COP30 event?

00:08:36.260 Well, Cosman, for climate hypocrisy, there is no shortage whatsoever.

00:08:40.400 First of all, we covered the story earlier on before COP went off officially,

00:08:45.260 which was the story about the thousands of trees cut down from the very same Amazon rainforest

00:08:51.580 that the government of Brazil is poised to protect using our tax dollars from high-income countries.

00:08:58.640 They cut down thousands of those trees of that protected rainforest in order to build a highway

00:09:04.300 which would essentially be serving delegates and visitors going up into the city of Balei

00:09:10.880 from the rainforest, from the Amazon, and from the bordering states.

00:09:14.380 That's, I think, a four-lane highway that they were looking to build based off that cleared-off space.

00:09:19.360 And, of course, that's just the beginning.

00:09:21.780 We also know about these three cruise ships that are all diesel-powered

00:09:26.040 and are burning hundreds of liters per every couple hours, of course.

00:09:31.100 And these are, of course, high-end facilities being used for these foreign delegates of, you know,

00:09:36.080 very elitist stature from the business aspect to the political angle.

00:09:39.840 We had Macron from France, Keir Starmer from the UK.

00:09:44.080 I spoke earlier today with, or earlier the other day, sorry, with Gavin Newsom.

00:09:49.460 And there are many other delegates that are benefiting from those gas-guzzling machines on water.

00:09:56.160 We also know about the fake tree story as well.

00:09:58.440 So while the government of Brazil has authorized the cutting down of trees from the Amazon rainforest,

00:10:03.500 they have spent almost $5 million Canadian dollars of Brazilian tax dollars, that is,

00:10:08.720 on building these artificial trees to plant around Berlin to kind of show off the whole nature,

00:10:15.260 which is not even natural itself.

00:10:17.720 And that's just the climate side of things.

00:10:19.580 To go beyond and further, for most of day one, most of the venue did not even have properly functioning air conditioning.

00:10:28.340 For most of the last couple of days, even including today,

00:10:32.040 many of the bathrooms are not functional because they're not receiving water to both the sinks and toilets.

00:10:36.920 And of course, there are many other small complaints, like the cafeteria is not having enough food for the guests,

00:10:43.100 the food itself being extremely expensive at the venue.

00:10:46.660 And of course, this venue is right in the middle of the city,

00:10:48.860 so it's not some remote location where you would have to ship everything on trucks.

00:10:52.960 This is very much a plausible situation.

00:10:55.720 But of course, Lula's and his government's decision to host the conference at Belém

00:11:01.420 is almost entirely a political decision of bringing attention to an area where he is usually more popular

00:11:08.240 than, for example, the south of Brazil.

00:11:10.380 So that's the situation on the ground for now.

00:11:12.700 And of course, I will keep our viewers up to date with any further examples of high-carbon hypocrisy

00:11:18.720 on the end of the Brazilian government,

00:11:20.180 or frankly, the global delegations that are attending this event for all the wrong reasons.

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Juno News - November 12, 2025

B.C. university hires exclusively black applicants

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