Author: Robert

Don’t Blame Us for Your Kids Being So Stupid!

Remember the good old days when teaching was a noble profession and teachers excelled at teaching children the 3 R’s: Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic? In recent years, it seems that children are getting dumber and dumber. Well, it turns out that in Ontario, this isn’t possibly the fault of the teachers. Nope:

Four of Ontario’s largest school boards are suing the parent companies of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning, contributing to a mental health crisis and leaving educators to manage the fallout.

The Toronto District School Board, the Peel District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board and the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board filed four separate but similar cases in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice on Wednesday.

The lawsuits claim the social media platforms are negligently designed for compulsive use and have rewired the way children think, behave and learn, leaving teachers and schools to deal with the consequences.

Interesting take. One can only wonder how so many students have successfully learned:

  • How to be a good communist.
  • That all white people carry the stain of original sin.
  • That the Liberals and NDP are the benevolent angels and anyone else is a right-wing Nazi bigot.
  • That Mother Earth is soon to die any day now.
  • That Communist China are the U.S. Democrats are just swell and Trump is the Orange Hitler.

h/t James MacMaster

A Few Covid Truth Bombs

On the most recent episode of their podcast, Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky discuss what facts authorities knew very early in 2020 but chose not to act upon. Instead, their decisions to be dishonest about the facts, caused irreparable harm to children across the Western World. Have any of them ever been charged with anything for these actions or even suffered professionally. You know the answer. Sadly, you already know the answer.

Are All Vancouver NIMBYs now also Racists?

Something very interesting is happening in Vancouver:

Much like in the US, Canada is experiencing a severe housing affordability crisis, and the country’s indigenous communities, known as First Nations, have long suffered disproportionately from inadequate housing.

But Canada’s indigenous communities are fighting to address the issue. In Vancouver alone, several First Nations are leading a major push to build housing on indigenous-owned land, in some cases partnering with the federal government to build entirely new communities that will house tens of thousands of people, while generating wealth for generations of First Nations members to come.

Ground has already been broken on one of these projects, 11 towers with 6,000 homes being built by the Squamish Nation on a 12-acre piece of land near downtown Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive real-estate market. The Squamish people were forced off of this land in the early 20th century and finally won back their ancestral territory about 20 years ago.

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