Scotiabank Prepares Whites for Minority Status
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Scotiabank Prepares Whites for Minority Status
September 13, 2011

by Henry Makow Ph.D.

Not only does Scotiabank, Canada’s third largest bank, sell financial services, its commercials are helping Canadians of European descent adjust to future minority status.

Scotiabank is a sponsor of the Canadian Football League. Thus, millions of Canadians repeatedly see the ad above which depicts a well intentioned but stupid white couple being instructed by a visible minority woman employed by the bank.

School prayer ‘slippery slope,’ rally told 107
First posted: Sunday, September 18, 2011 09:26 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, September 18, 2011 09:30 PM EDT
Members of the Canadian Secular Alliance rally outside Queen’s Park on Sunday for the ban of prayer service by Muslim students in public schools and the elimination of the Catholic school board. (TOM GODFREY/Toronto Sun)

TORONTO – Calls for the defunding of Ontario Catholic school boards and a ban on prayer services in public schools by Muslim students were loud at Queen’s Park on Sunday.

Farzana Hassan, of the Muslim Canadian Congress, described as “gender apartheid” the Friday prayer service that takes place at Valley Park Middle School, on Overlea Blvd., for more than 100 Muslim students.

"She took all of her identities — woman, Black, Native/Aboriginal, differently-abled, and made undying poetry out of them all."

Acclaimed poet, teacher Maxine Tynes dies in Halifax at age 62
Global Maritimes : Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:49 PM

HALIFAX – Acclaimed African-Nova Scotian poet Maxine Tynes had died.

She passed away Monday, in Halifax, at the age of 62.

Tynes taught English at Auburn Drive and Cole Harbour High schools, but also developed a successful career as a writer and published her first book, Borrowed Beauty, in 1987.

Her other works include The Door of My Heart (1993), Woman talking Woman(1990) and Save the World for Me (1993) – an insightful book of poetry for young adults and adolescents

She was a seventh-generation Nova Scotian, born in Dartmouth in 1949, with a family heritage dating back to the time of Black Loyalists.

Mexican tourist Borris Frias takes a picture of his travel partners Noe Montano, left, and Erick Ruiz as they visit Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 14, 2009. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Tories warned about ‘serious’ Mexican visa issues: CP
The Canadian Press
Date: Sunday Sep. 18, 2011 11:26 AM ET

OTTAWA — Senior bureaucrats warned the Harper government that imposing a new visa on Mexican travellers would overload Canada’s diplomatic capacity.

The deputy ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Trade offered that assessment in a July 2009 briefing note to then foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon.