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If you can remember a phone number, you can remember this, the number of cents for every white male dollar earned by hispanic, native, black, white, and asian women, respectively.
Remember this, and ask any 2020 candidate what they plan to do about it.
1. The problem for Trudeau, I think, is that he has rarely presented racism as a reality in Canada. He has hid behind over-the-top expressions of so-called Canadian tolerance (the bhangra dancing, the Ramadan socks, the India trip cringe clothes).
I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but equity, diversity, and inclusion are three different things.
I know people in professional settings are increasingly asked to deal with EDI without having a lot of background in it, so here's the shortest primer ever, with some resources:
Disgusted to hear Brunei are set to pass a new law that will punish homosexuality with death by stoning. World leaders must speak up and not let this go unchallenged. Don’t call yourself an #LGBTQ+ ally if you stand by in silence while we’re executed.
Dear @CanadianPM and @Bill_Morneau - a question I have about Budget 2019 is where are the funds to implement the pending recommendations of the MMIW inquiry? To honour the families and the loved ones who were lost there must be action.
Only in Australia - after a local winemaker left the car door open, a curious koala decided to take advantage of the air-conditioning. We speak to the winemaker in 7 News at 6pm. #7News
Take it from one who knows Trump probably as well as anyone (his co-author on "The Art Of The Deal"): the man's entire toxic persona and cynical outlook are an expression of deep, unprocessed early trauma.
Maternal mortality after cesarean section in middle income African countries is 1 in 200 — 50x higher income countries — and the neonatal death rate is 1 in 23. @thelancet We have an invisible epidemic of avoidable surgical deaths globally. https://t.co/1vpz1kIl5j
We will no longer accept a situation in which the top 25 hedge fund managers on Wall Street make nearly double what 140,000 kindergarten teachers in America earn and millions of kids go to over-crowded and under-funded schools.