Juno News - November 12, 2025B.C. university hires exclusively black applicants
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The UK's net zero minister gushes over Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at COP30 in Brazil, lauding him as a "great guy" and a "good friend." ABC University is advertising hiring for faculty positions exclusively based on the skin colour of applicants. The left-wing Brazilian government is facing criticism over hosting three diesel-guzzling cruise ships while it hosts world elites to talk about climate policies during COP30.
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The UK's net-zero minister gushed over Prime Minister Mark Carney at COP30 in Brazil,
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ABC University is advertising hiring for faculty positions exclusively based on the skin color of applicants.
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The left-wing Brazilian government is facing criticism over hosting three diesel-guzzling cruise ships
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while it hosts world elites to talk about climate policies during COP30.
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Hello, Canada. It's Wednesday, November 12th, and this is the True North Daily Brief.
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At the United Nations COP30 climate summit in Brazil,
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UK's net-zero minister and former Labour leader, Ed Miliband,
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offered glowing praise for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling him a, quote,
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True North journalist Wally Tam-Tam caught up with Miliband outside a COP30 event in Belém, Brazil.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer had delivered an address at the conference's prelude
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When asked about Carney's leadership and climate policy record, Miliband replied,
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I think Mark Carney's a great guy, he's a good friend of mine,
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and I believe he's a really important climate leader.
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Asked if he and Carney were still in contact and planning to collaborate on climate initiatives,
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Just a question for Ottawa, what are your thoughts on Mark Carney's climate leadership?
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I think Mark Carney's a great guy, he's a good friend of mine,
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and I believe he's a really important climate leader.
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Are you still in touch with him? Are you guys looking forward to getting closer in the future?
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Tens of thousands of delegates, including a Canadian contingent,
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and Canadian Identity Minister Stephen Guilbeau,
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are attending the United Nations' latest climate conference in the Amazon.
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Carney, who served as governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020,
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has been a central figure in the global climate finance movement.
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He has used his influence in banking and government to push for aggressive decarbonization targets
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While Carney chose not to attend COP30 himself, his allies are well represented.
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Yeah, so this morning, for now, it's a one-minister team.
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It's Julia Dabrussin, who arrived this morning,
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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get anything out of her yet.
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As you will see later on, she's been deflecting questions,
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and her staff have been doing everything possible to keep her away from me.
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The sole Canadian journalist going after her for information that Canadian people want to know.
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Like, what are the costs that we are incurring?
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What is the dollar figure amount that we are committing to these different UN and globalist initiatives on the environment?
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I heard that Stephen Goebo is set to arrive today, actually.
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So, I was told on Monday that he'll be arriving at midnight,
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So, we'll see if we can catch up with him before I depart.
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I watched Dabrussin's brief remarks, but three minutes' worth of remarks on Remembrance Day,
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discussing the importance of remembrance and preserving a two-minute moment of silence.
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And, of course, her team was all present there,
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and that was basically the only event she had at the pavilion that was publicly available.
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Everything else was her interacting behind closed doors with other delegates from other countries
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and other bilateral meetings she had all evening long.
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But that was the first day we had any Canadian minister whatsoever,
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the first day where Canada was represented by someone else besides the ambassador to Brazil.
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And, of course, I guess that team will only get bigger as the days at COP30 go on.
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Simon Fraser University fully embraced race-based hiring
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with an advertisement for faculty position exclusively restricted to black applicants.
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A tenor-track posting in Philosophy says the competition is limited to applicants who, quote,
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Applicants must first complete an applicant demographic survey.
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Another posting in the School of Criminology applies the same race restriction,
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warning that candidates who do not complete the survey, quote,
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The posting states that the demographic survey responses will be used to determine their appropriateness
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for the position alongside their experience and qualifications.
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Simon Fraser University says race-restricted hiring is part of a special program supported
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The university received approval from the commissioner to limit recruitment.
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Simon Fraser University plans to hire at least, quote,
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15 black tenor-track faculty and 15 black staff by 2028 to address what it calls systemic discrimination.
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The demographic survey asks applicants to report indigenous identity, racial identity, gender identity,
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The postings say these questions help the university meet Canada research chair's targets
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to enhance equity and remove systemic barriers to recruitment.
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Is there something in Canada's constitution that makes racial discrimination permissible in this case?
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Well, look, Walid, under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
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discrimination on the basis of race is prohibited.
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But there are exceptions, believe it or not, and this has been kind of adjudicated in the quasi-court system
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of human rights tribunals, at least in Ontario.
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There are appeals to subsections that essentially say that within Canadian law,
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you're allowed to have special programs designed, or so-called, rather, designed to help disadvantaged groups.
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So basically, if an institution argues that a policy is meant to fix historical inequality,
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it can get a green light to treat people differently based on things like race, gender, or identity.
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And that seems to be what Simon Fraser University is doing here,
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and plenty of other organizations, institutions, both public and not,
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have used this to sort of segregate people based on identifiable race characteristics.
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The Brazilian government is under fire as the host of COP30 for using three diesel-guzzling cruise ships
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to house climate conference attendees, sparking outrage over the summit's real carbon footprint.
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In order to accommodate thousands of foreign delegations and politicians,
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the Brazilian government docked three gas-guzzling ships at the docks of the host city,
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one reserved for President Lula, while the other two were reserved for commercial use.
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According to a report by Brazilian media outlet Revista Oeste,
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Lula's own vessel consumes approximately 135 liters of diesel fuel per hour.
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The boat remains docked in Baleim, where the summit is taking place and are being used as a floating hotel
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due to a shortage of upscale accommodations in the city.
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The magazine reports that the cost of renting the boat is being covered by taxpayers under federal government expenses,
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though officials have not been transparent about the full cost.
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The vessel features private suites, dining facilities, and conference rooms for meetings during the international climate event.
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Waleed, while you're there, what are some of the other points of contention or controversy
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that you're hearing about the Brazilian governments, particularly around climate hypocrisy during the COP30 event?
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Well, Cosman, for climate hypocrisy, there is no shortage whatsoever.
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First of all, we covered the story earlier on before COP went off officially,
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which was the story about the thousands of trees cut down from the very same Amazon rainforest
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that the government of Brazil is poised to protect using our tax dollars from high-income countries.
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They cut down thousands of those trees of that protected rainforest in order to build a highway
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which would essentially be serving delegates and visitors going up into the city of Balei
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from the rainforest, from the Amazon, and from the bordering states.
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That's, I think, a four-lane highway that they were looking to build based off that cleared-off space.
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We also know about these three cruise ships that are all diesel-powered
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and are burning hundreds of liters per every couple hours, of course.
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And these are, of course, high-end facilities being used for these foreign delegates of, you know,
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very elitist stature from the business aspect to the political angle.
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We had Macron from France, Keir Starmer from the UK.
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I spoke earlier today with, or earlier the other day, sorry, with Gavin Newsom.
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And there are many other delegates that are benefiting from those gas-guzzling machines on water.
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We also know about the fake tree story as well.
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So while the government of Brazil has authorized the cutting down of trees from the Amazon rainforest,
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they have spent almost $5 million Canadian dollars of Brazilian tax dollars, that is,
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on building these artificial trees to plant around Berlin to kind of show off the whole nature,
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To go beyond and further, for most of day one, most of the venue did not even have properly functioning air conditioning.
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For most of the last couple of days, even including today,
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many of the bathrooms are not functional because they're not receiving water to both the sinks and toilets.
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And of course, there are many other small complaints, like the cafeteria is not having enough food for the guests,
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the food itself being extremely expensive at the venue.
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And of course, this venue is right in the middle of the city,
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so it's not some remote location where you would have to ship everything on trucks.
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But of course, Lula's and his government's decision to host the conference at Belém
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is almost entirely a political decision of bringing attention to an area where he is usually more popular
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And of course, I will keep our viewers up to date with any further examples of high-carbon hypocrisy
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or frankly, the global delegations that are attending this event for all the wrong reasons.
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