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Oklahoma Schools Refuse "Teach The Bible!" Mandate
From: "Lee" <cleetis@gmail.com>

School officials all over Oklahoma are defying GOP directive to teach the Bible in class Sept 4The superintendents of 
nearly five dozen Oklahoma school districts say they do not plan to change their districts' curricula to comply with 
anti-LGBTQ+ Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters' mandate that the Bible be taught at the 
state's public schools.

In June, Walters issued a memo directing all school districts in the state to incorporate the Bible and the Ten 
Commandments into their curricula for grades five through 12. The following month, the Oklahoma State Department of 
Education (OSDE) issued guidelines on how schools should incorporate the Bible into lessons beginning in the 2024-2025 
school year.

In late July, The Oklahoman reported that some of the state's largest school districts had already said they would not 
comply with the directive, citing concerns that it may violate state laws. By early August, KGOU reported that at least 
17 school districts across the state had said they would not change their curricula to incorporate the Bible.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/09/school-officials-all-over-oklahoma-are-defying-gop-directive-to-teach-the-bible-in-
class/

My, how times change.

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Subject: $6 Million To Put Bibles In Schools
From: "Lee" <cleetis@gmail.com>

Oklahoma's top elected education official said Thursday he is very close to his goal of placing a Bible in "every 
school" in the Sooner State to both combat "woke" curricula in today's textbooks and ensure students have access to an 
incredible "historical document."

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Holier-than-thou LIBERAL Canadians, think they're soooo superior when it comes to slavery, because they "ended" it (not 
really) a mere 30 years earlier.

Canada "ended" slavery a mere 30 years before Lincoln wrote the "Emancipation Proclamation".

HOW does that make Canada ANY "better" or different? It doesn't. 

Canada's Shameful, Modern-Day Slave Trade
https://torontosun.com/2012/02/10/canadas-shameful-modern-day-slave-trade/wcm/2e410af6-9dc4-4ef7-bc3e-821a5970ed41

Colonial Canada Had Slavery For More Than 200 Years. And Yes, It Still Matters Today

More Canadians Say Racism Is A "Serious Problem" Today Than 1 Year Ago

Canada Urged To Open Its Eyes To Systemic Racism In Wake Of Police Violence

Racism In Canada Is Ever-Present, But We Have A Long History Of Denial

Majority (60%) See Racism as a Serious Problem in Canada Today, Up 13 points Since Last Year

Nearly a Third of Canadians (28%) Say They Have Personally Experienced Racism in the Past Year - 24 July 2020
https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/majority-60-see-racism-serious-problem-canada-
today-13-points-last-year

Canada's Enduring Legacy Of Power, Politics And Racism 
https://theclarion.ca/politicslaw/canadians-no-less-racist-than-americans/

75 Per Cent of Canadians Polled, Say Royal Canadian Mounted Police Has Systemic Racism Issue

Systemic Racism In The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force
https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/07/11/study-canadians-agree-rcmp-systemic-
racism/

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alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, can.politics, alt.politics.trump, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.politics.democrats, 
alt.politics.usa.republican
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Holier-than-thou LIBERAL Canadians, think they're soooo superior when it comes to slavery, because they "ended" it (not 
really) a mere 30 years earlier.

The Reality of Anti-Black Racism in Canada | BCG
https://www.bcg.com/en-ca/publications/2020/reality-of-anti-black-racism-in-canada
Anti-Black racism in Canada is worse than most Canadians want to believe. With the COVID-19 pandemic amplifying the 
injustices against Black People, it is now more important than ever for Canadians to take action.

Racism & the Canadian historical past ...
https://divercityvisa.com/racism-the-americanization-of-canadian-historical-past-why-we-should-not-take-a-look-at-
ourselves-by-a-u-s-lens
The Canadian response to racism south of the border will be described as an Americanization of Canadian historical 
past. The media's lack of protection of racism in Canada, in its traditionally correct context, is a trigger for 
concern. Totally different histories of racism.

Racism in Canada | News, Videos & Articles
https://globalnews.ca/tag/racism-in-canada
Canadian MPs vote to condemn Atlanta mass shooting, anti-Asian racism. The move comes days after eight people were 
killed by a white gunman in Atlanta. Six of the victims were Asian American women ...

Anti-Asian Racism Lead, The Canadian Race Relations ...
https://cpac-canada.ca/anti-asian-racism-lead
The Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) was created in 1996 to reaffirm the principles of justice and equality 
for all in Canada. The CRRF's mandate is to facilitate throughout Canada the development, sharing, and application of 
knowledge and expertise to eliminate racism and all forms of racial discrimination in Canadian society.

Is Canada a racist country? One-third of respondents in a ...
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/06/21/is-canada-a-racist-country-
one-third-of-respondents-in-a-new-study-say-yes.html
Jun 21, 2021
One-third of respondents in a new study say yes. Most Canadians agree that Canada's diverse population makes it a 
better country. But on the question of whether or not Canada is a racist country ...

Most Canadians Experience Racism ... - New Canadian Media
https://newcanadianmedia.ca/most-canadians-experience-racism-where-they-live-survey
Canadian racism is sometimes called 'polite' and is characterized by microaggressions, but that is a misnomer. Words 
like that are used to deflect criticisms and differentiate Canada from the United States, says Henry, though she does 
see similar ideologies and motivations.

Canada Must Withdraw From Racist Core Group - Yves Angler
https://yvesengler.com/2021/10/24/canada-must-withdraw-from-racist-core-group
The least Canadian antiracist activists should do is educate themselves about racism in foreign affairs. There is no 
justification for Canada participating in this nakedly imperialist alliance. All Canadians of conscience owe a debt of 
solidarity to the people of Haiti. We must demand Ottawa immediately withdraw from the racist Core Group.

Sikh Canadians Surge Politically In "Systemically Racist ...
https://capforcanada.com/sikh-canadians-surge-politically-in-systemically-racist-canada
"The reality is, our Canada is a place of racism, of violence." - NDP Party Leader Jagmeet Singh, June 14th 2021. An 
unprecedented event occurred last night in Alberta, Canada. Sikh-Canadian candidates won in both Calgary and Edmonton 
mayoral elections.. Jhoti Gondek is the first Sikh-Canadian to become mayor of Calgary. She will be taking over from 
Naheed Nenshi, three-time winner as ...

Racism at IRCC could determine who gets in - New Canadian ...
https://newcanadianmedia.ca/racism-at-ircc-could-determine-who-gets-in

IRCC employees are reporting racist workplace behaviour such as racially-charged microaggressions at work, says survey. 
NCM reporter Isabel Inclan reports on the deeper fallout. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) employees 
remain skeptical of the measures in place to tackle racism at their workplace, according to a new report.
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alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump, alt.politics.liberalism, 
alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
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Canada:

'Worst In The World': Here Are All The Rankings In Which Canada Is Now Last

Most Unaffordable Housing, Highest Cell phone Bills And Worst Rate of Acute Care Beds, To Name A Few

If you spend any time on social media, it's likely that you've seen this 
graphic compiled by columnist Stephen Lautens that assembles 11 international 
indices which feature Canada near the top spot. "Canada is broken? I don't 
think so. Neither does the world," reads a caption.

Next time someone rants on how about how "broken" Canada is; or how badly we 
are doing on the international stage... share some facts.

Numbers don't lie, Felicia.

https://archive.is/o/LnFRL/https://twitter.com/DIGuideBradley/status/1554545079314010112

Naturally, it only tells a partial picture. While Canada may dominate abstract 
indices such as "quality of life" and "peace," there are plenty of far more 
empirical indicators in which we measurably rank as among the worst in the 
developed world.

There's plenty to like about Canada, but below is a not-at-all comprehensive 
list of all the ways in which we are indeed very broken.

WE HAVE THE MOST UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is essentially a 
club of the world's 38 most developed countries. And when these 38 are ranked 
against each other for housing unaffordability, Canada emerges as the clear 
champion. OECD analysts rank affordability by comparing average home prices to 
average incomes, and according to their latest quarterly rankings Canada was 
No. 1 for salaries that were most out of whack with the cost of a home.

Housing by price to income ratio for the second quarter of 2022. That's Canada 
on the extreme right.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/840da40d6fa3b7fef6fcccdfc1637d24e0786760.webp

WE HAVE THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WIRELESS COSTS

Every year, the Finnish telecom analyst Rewheel ranks the world's most 
expensive countries for wireless services. And last year, Canada once again 
dominated. Across several metrics, Canada was found to be the most expensive 
place in the world for mobile data. Analysts found that it would cost the 
average Canadian the equivalent of at least 100 Euros to obtain a cell phone 
plan with at least 100 gigabytes of mobile data. Across much of the EU, that 
kind of cell phone plan could be had for less than 40 Euros.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/822bcfe750687b1ef6288ee7df5606fd15629289.webp

Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of mobile 
data as companies in France or Ireland.

Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of mobile 
data as companies in France or Ireland. Photo by Rewheel

WE HAVE THE LOWEST RATE OF ACUTE CARE BEDS AMONG PEER COUNTRIES

Canada's health system was particularly walloped by COVID-19 due to the simple 
fact that most of our hospitals are at the breaking point even in good times. 
Multiple times during the pandemic, provinces were forced into shutdown by 
rates of COVID that had barely been noticed in better-prepared countries. A 
ranking by the Canadian Institute for Health Information provides one clue as 
to why. When ranked against peer countries, Canada's rate of per-capita acute 
care beds was in last place, albeit tied with Sweden. Canada has two acute care 
beds for every 1,000 people, against 3.1 in France and six in Germany.

TWO OF THE PLANET'S "BUBBLIEST" REAL ESTATE MARKETS ARE IN CANADA

For at least 15 years now, Canada has been a regular contender on rankings of 
overheated housing markets. And the latest UBS index of world cities with 
"bubbly" real estate markets is no exception. In their 2021 index, Toronto was 
second only to Frankfurt in terms of bubble risk, while Vancouver ranked sixth. 
Aside from Germany, Canada was the only country that saw two of its cities in 
the top ten.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/1961e904e18e8cb533ff42c2eae7beb611827bd4.webp

Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble 
risks," and they're both in Canada.

Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble 
risks," and they're both in Canada. Photo by UBS Global Real Estate Bubble 
Index 2021

WE RACKED UP COVID DEBT FASTER THAN ANYONE ELSE

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the most feverish global accumulation of debt 
in the history of human civilization. So it's rather remarkable that amidst 
this international monsoon of debt, Canada still managed to out-debt everyone 
else. Last year, analysts at Bloomberg tracked each country's rate of public 
and private debt accumulated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Canada came in with an overall debt burden equivalent to 352 per cent of GDP. 
While a handful of countries (Japan, France and Hong Kong) came out of the 
pandemic with higher overall debt burdens, Canada outranked all of them when it 
came to how quickly that debt had been accumulated.

Containers on rail cars waiting to be shipped east by rail at the Port of 
Vancouver Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Photo by (Photo by Jason Payne/ PNG)

https://archive.is/LnFRL/5b7e25218f55d343b998db94c6748b57312dafaf.webp

THE PORT OF VANCOUVER IS (ALMOST) THE MOST INEFFICIENT IN THE WORLD

Last year - just as the global supply chain crisis got going - the World Bank 
decided to rank the performance of the world's 370 major ports. Authors weighed 
factors such as how long the ports kept ships waiting, and how long crews took 
to unload a vessel. And when everything was added together, the Port of 
Vancouver ranked 368 out of 370. The only places with worse scores were the 
Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. And it's not like our other 
ports are much better. If Vancouver is too gummed up, you can always sail north 
to Prince Rupert, which ranks 339 out of 370.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/ac861be6fb2f37d1463e7670c232b5cd548d5395.webp

Take that, Los Angeles and Long Beach. Photo by World Bank Group


Queues at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo by Peter J. 
Thompson/National Post

https://archive.is/LnFRL/b32f7be38081069e5e696a0029996f6f3adaa760.webp

TORONTO PEARSON IS THE WORLD'S MOST-DELAYED AIRPORT

Flight delays are another category in which basically the entire world is 
feeling the pinch. And yet, Canada still managed to outdo all of them. Last 
month, CNN used data from the website FlightAware to figure out which airports 
were seeing the highest rates of flight delays. In the number one spot was 
Toronto Pearson, with 52 per cent of all flights out of the airport 
experiencing some kind of delay. And it was a commanding lead; the second-place 
finisher, Frankfurt, only managed to see 45.4 per cent of its flights delayed. 
Toronto was also a contender in flight cancellations; with 6.9 per cent of its 
scheduled flights never getting off the ground, it ranked fourth worst in the 
world.

WE'RE ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST ECONOMIES FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT

A 2020 study out of the University of Calgary tracked foreign investment flows 
into a cross-section of developed countries between 2015 and 2019. Virtually 
every country on the list saw a surge in foreign cash during that period; 
Ireland topped out the ranking thanks to its foreign investment climbing by 
more than 115 per cent. Only four countries actually saw a reduction in foreign 
investment: Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada. A report by the Business 
Council of Canada noticed the same trend. "Canada is the second-worst in the 
OECD on openness to foreign direct investment," it concluded.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/222c5fba154990485338650dcb55e413d85e080c.webp

WE DRIVE THE MOST FUEL-INEFFICIENT VEHICLES IN THE WORLD

In 2019, the International Energy Agency examined the fuel economy of the 
world's private car fleets. On almost every measure, Canada led the pack in 
driving unnecessarily huge, gas-guzzling vehicles. Per kilometre driven, the 
average Canadian burned more fuel and emitted more carbon dioxide than anyone 
else. Canadian cars were also the largest and (second only to the U.S.) the 
heaviest. While it would be convenient to blame this on Canada being a sparse, 
cold country with lots of heavy industry, our ranking was well beyond plenty of 
other countries where that was similarly the case.