affirmative action
Aboriginal seats protected at Memorial
Human Rights Commission grants special status
Illegal immigrants to get student aid in California
But bill to legalize affirmative action is dead
Is this bake sale racist?
Campus Republicans could lose funding over cupcakes
Should universities hire “visible minorities”?
Professor Pettigrew proposes a commonsense alternative
Do universities need affirmative action?
Equity policies may have little impact.
What we’re talking about when we talk about affirmative action
The government seems to have ordered a review of affirmative action—”employment equity” in Canadian terms—policies in the public service. But the government reportedly supports affirmative action. So, more specifically, it would seem that the government is concerned with jobs that are specifically and explicitly restricted to minority applicants. Of 5,000 jobs posted in 2008, this criteria reportedly applied to 91.
Trust him. He’s Bob Rae.
Must-reads: Dan Gardner on the McMurtry/Curling report; Colby Cosh on bailing out the oil patch; Don Martin on Bob Rae.