The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - April 22, 2026


Canadian Universities & Stage 5 Suicidal Empathy - No Straight White Men! (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_987)


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In this episode, I talk about how Canadian universities have a problem with suicidal empathy and how they are trying to fix it. I also talk about the Canada Research Chairs program and the lack of women in research at Memorial University.

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00:00:00.160 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad and three weeks from today, Suicidal Empathy, Dying to be Kind
00:00:07.240 will finally be released. I know that many of you have been waiting years for the book.
00:00:13.060 The journey began many, many years ago. First wrote Parasitic Mind right here to explain how
00:00:19.080 our cognitive system is parasitized by ideological capture and in the Parasitic Mind, I referenced
00:00:27.100 suicidal empathy which led then to my eventually writing how our emotional system could be
00:00:35.540 parasitized so that'll be coming out in three weeks please I implore you if you're planning
00:00:40.500 on buying the book to pre-order it ASAP it really helps with the bestsellers list today I wanted to
00:00:46.800 talk about. So far, I've been restricting the awarding of the lofty title of sufferers of
00:00:57.360 stage five suicidal empathy to countries. So, Canada suffers from stage five suicidal empathy.
00:01:04.840 Sweden does. Britain does. I've also placed Norway because it is really trying to
00:01:11.480 to outshine many other countries in its suicidal empathy but we can debate which other countries
00:01:18.860 we should be including within the stage five suicidal empathy appellation but today I wanted
00:01:25.420 to focus on a sub-ecosystem of Canadian society and that's Canadian universities. Canadian
00:01:33.260 universities absolutely suffer from stage five suicidal empathy and so today what I wanted to do
00:01:39.960 is begin with the following this is from an article i'll put the links to the article
00:01:46.820 the link to the article in in the description section it's basically looking at statistics
00:01:53.920 canada in the year 2022 2023 at the undergraduate level women represented 58.3 percent of undergraduate
00:02:05.840 students. So nearly 60% of undergrads are women and a bit more than 40% are men. So women
00:02:15.240 greatly outnumber men. At the master's level, 63% of master's students are women. So even
00:02:24.640 more pronounced than at the undergraduate level. And at the PhD level, 57% of PhD candidates
00:02:33.240 are women. So at the undergrad, master's and PhD levels, women outnumber men greatly. And so of
00:02:42.840 course what we need to do is fight against the patriarchy and find ways to better promote women
00:02:51.620 because they're not just given the due chances and they are being grossly marginalized by the 0.63
00:02:59.860 patriarchy. So today what I wanted to do is look at the Canada Research Chairs at Memorial
00:03:08.060 University. Memorial University is a Canadian university in Newfoundland and they have Canada
00:03:16.340 Research Chairs. I've explained this to you in the past. Canada Research Chairs are endowed
00:03:22.440 professorships. They're endowed chaired professorships by the Canadian government. So
00:03:27.020 they're very prestigious professorships supposedly and universities put out calls to try to attract
00:03:35.740 leading people from around the world to come to Canada and you know lead the next century in the
00:03:43.460 various research fields so here I'm looking and I'm going to take screenshots in case they make
00:03:48.260 them disappear I'm at the website of Memorial University I'm looking at their Canada Research
00:03:55.200 chairs program at the current open positions so let's start now tier one and tier two Canada
00:04:02.260 research chairs simply means the tier two is the less senior one and the tier one is the more senior
00:04:09.600 one so let's begin with a tier two Canada research chair in AI driven navigation for arctic and harsh
00:04:19.820 environments. So this competition is open only to applicants who are current employees of Memorial
00:04:28.580 University, okay, and who identify as members of one or more employment equity groups, including
00:04:35.860 women, 2SLGBTQIA plus people, indigenous peoples, racialized people, persons, and persons with
00:04:45.780 disabilities as per approval granted by the human rights commission pursuant to section 8 of the
00:04:51.840 human rights act so if you were for example an able-bodied man heterosexual who does not suffer
00:04:58.660 from any disabilities but you are the absolute world leader in ai driven navigation for arctic
00:05:05.180 and harsh environments you need not apply to memorial university so that's the first chair
00:05:10.840 Let's look at the next chair. Again, these are Canada Research Chaired Professorships. Tier 2, Canada Research Chair in Computational Biochemistry. Ooh, that sounds science-y. It sounds very intellectual. So let's look at how Canadian universities are trying to attract the top people.
00:05:33.300 Oh, it's the exact same thing. This competition is open only to applicants who are current employees
00:05:39.360 of Memorial University, so we're not even getting people from outside, but they also have to
00:05:43.900 identify as members of one or more employment equity groups, including women, 2SLGBTQIA plus
00:05:51.760 people, indigenous peoples, racialized persons, and persons with disabilities as per the approval 0.52
00:05:58.340 granted by the human rights commission blah blah blah so so far so good at least we don't have to 0.98
00:06:04.640 face the indignity of having disgusting white heterosexual men leading any of these labs 0.95
00:06:11.020 then we've got a tier one so now we're moving to a more senior tier one canada research chair 0.96
00:06:16.860 in musculoskeletal health and genomic mapping of the nl population i'm assuming that means
00:06:25.040 new finland and lavador population that sounds pretty serious musculoskeletal and genomic let's
00:06:31.600 see who we're looking for here oh same thing all the competition is only open to applicants who
00:06:37.900 identify as members of one or more employment equity groups including women 2sl gbtqia plus
00:06:45.140 people indigenous people racialized persons and persons with disabilities perfect then there are
00:06:52.860 two more chaired professorships then there's a tier two canada research chair in indigenous
00:06:58.540 knowledge youth and digital technology because indigenous people have a unique take on digital
00:07:06.340 technology we really need to infuse digital technology with indigenous know-how so let's
00:07:12.660 look at who could apply for this one it's the same one identify as members of one or more employment
00:07:20.900 equity groups as per approval granted by the Human Rights Commission pursuant to Section 8 of
00:07:28.300 the Human Rights Act. These equity groups include women, 2SL, LGBTQIA plus people, Indigenous
00:07:36.140 peoples, racialized persons, and persons with disabilities. And finally, if you are interested
00:07:44.040 in applying for a tier two Canada research chair in community health and substance use research
00:07:51.620 that sounds pretty serious let's see oh there you go you have to identify as a members of one or 0.52
00:07:58.660 more employment equity groups including women 2SLGBTQIA plus people indigenous peoples racialized
00:08:06.960 persons and persons with disabilities as per approval granted by the human rights commission
00:08:13.080 pursuant to Section 8 of the Human Rights Act.
00:08:17.100 So a research university in Canada, in Newfoundland,
00:08:23.040 is putting out calls for the most prestigious chaired professorships
00:08:28.580 endowed by the Canadian government in AI-driven navigation
00:08:32.440 for Arctic and harsh environments, in computational biochemistry,
00:08:37.200 in musculoskeletal health and genomic map of the Newfoundland
00:08:41.980 the Labrador population, in indigenous knowledge, youth, and digital technology, and in community
00:08:47.760 health and substance use research.
00:08:51.100 And all of those areas of inquiry are reserved for everyone, well, not everyone, it's reserved
00:09:00.180 for a certain group of people, but certainly if you are male, if you are white, if you
00:09:07.720 are heterosexual, please do not apply. We are not interested in your white supremacist
00:09:16.280 heteronormative knowledge base. Stage five, suicidal empathy. Take care, everybody. 0.94