Juno News - August 16, 2022


Why is the Alberta NDP freaking out over an essay？


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This week i talk about a controversial essay that won third place in the Her Vision Inspires essay contest and the backlash that has been going on ever since. Is this essay as controversial as everyone says it is?

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00:00:00.000 okay guys let's end today on a bit of a lighter note you guys might have heard about this essay
00:00:04.640 that's taking the alberta press gallery and leftist twitter by storm people are absolutely
00:00:09.680 outraged over this essay so here's what happened there was a her vision inspires contest which the
00:00:15.360 alberta government agreed to post the essays on their website and two female ucp mlas also helped 0.97
00:00:22.240 judging in the contest there were three winners and the third place winner was a basically an essay
00:00:28.080 that urged women to have children which is as you know very controversial in the year 2022.
00:00:34.320 the essay said albertan women are taught that children are a burden while importing foreigners 0.91
00:00:39.680 to replace albertan culture and albertan people essentially the essay also wrote that men and
00:00:44.880 women aren't exactly equal because women have the unique ability to bear children and obviously 1.00
00:00:50.560 there's a bit of a biological difference and the essay writer wrote that modern culture really
00:00:55.120 chooses to ignore this difference or to rewrite it and the essay said men and women have an important
00:01:01.120 role in preserving their speeches and culture and women often regret having children later in life
00:01:06.960 i'm sure you guys won't find it surprising that people were outraged over this essay they couldn't
00:01:11.040 believe that it was third place it was later revealed that there were two other essays that did
00:01:16.240 not place in the contest and people couldn't understand how this essay placed above those others
00:01:21.280 that did not place and of course the ucp mlas that were involved in the judging have been forced to
00:01:26.320 apologize so i'm wondering what do you guys think is this essay as controversial as everyone says it is
00:01:32.000 was it wrong to have chosen this person to win third place or does she maybe have a point or you
00:01:37.520 know maybe she just has some different thoughts but she should still be allowed to express those
00:01:41.760 let me know what you guys think you know where you can reach me on twitter or facebook
00:01:45.520 that's all i have for you today thanks so much for tuning in and we'll catch up next week