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The Six Cents Report is a weekly podcast that uses theology and economics to analyze events that Impact Canadians. #Sixcentsmakeschange
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Friday Nov 15, 2019
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Remembrance Day 2019 has been victimized by partisan politics. Darnell & Joel discuss the following:
- Girl suspended from school for criticizing rainbow poppies
- Don Cherry fired on remembrance day
- How do you define hate speech?
- Analysis of the statement Don Cherry was fired for
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References:
Rainbow Poppies
Students suspended from Canadian high school for arguing against wearing rainbow poppy
Former Conservative party candidate apologizes for viral rainbow poppy tweet
Paper posted in the school criticizing the rainbow poppy
Grade 11 student kicked out of school after defending the red and black poppy!
Upset about the rainbow poppy? You've been duped by fake news
Don Cherry
Audio clips played #1:Don Cherry's Full Poppy Rant with Special Poppy Feature & #2:Cherry often says "you people" in a completely generic way
Canadian icon Cherry fired over controversial comments
Don Cherry fired for poppy rant: Woke lefties think supporting veterans is fascist | Keean Bexte
Sportsnet apologizes for Don Cherry's 'divisive' and 'offensive' remarks
The Don Cherry Story: Pt 1 & Pt 2
Rights 101: Freedom of Expression
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Friday Oct 25, 2019
Friday Oct 25, 2019
The Toronto District School Board updated the student's dress code as of Sept 2019. The recent changes allow students to now wear hats, hoods, crop-tops and spaghetti straps. Darnell & Joel discuss the role of dress codes with Ayesha Madden & Jenna Nicoloff. The conversation covers the following topics:
- Impact of dress codes on students
- First impressions & dressing to impress
- Modesty
- Teaching young people how to dress
- Consequences of how you dress
- Being overdressed vs underdressed
- Professional dress codes
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References:
TDSB revises its dress code and the rules are not what you might remember
The Best and Worst Outfits From the 2019 NBA Draft
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Friday Aug 16, 2019
Friday Aug 16, 2019
The Peel District School Board's implementation of the action plan to support black male students - We Rise Together is under scrutiny. Darnell & Joel review this action plan and covering the following:
- student focus group underlying the action plan
- Other factors impacting students success beyond the school
- The student's experience section of the report
- Contrasting achievers & non-achievers
- Our experiences in school
- Positive influences on our desire to learn
Related episodes: 6CR #30 & 6CR #28
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Reference Links:
Here Is Why Many Peel Students Are Demanding Better Action Against Racism
Peel school board considers recommendations to enhance We Rise Together program
Parents critical of Peel School's We Rise together anti-Black racism effort
Suzanne Nurse - We Rise Together
Ep. 1462 The Moral Mess of Higher Education
Black Students' Perspectives on Academic Success
We Rise Together contact:
http://www.werisetogether.ca/index.html
Twitter: @WRT_PDSB
Email: WRT@peelsb.com
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Friday Jun 28, 2019
Friday Jun 28, 2019
A paper claiming dodgeball is a tool of oppression was presented by Joy Butler from the University of British Columbia and David Burns from Kwantlen Polytechnic University while presenting their research at the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Darnell & Joel have a conversation regarding dodgeball, that covers the following:
- Playing dodgeball growing up
- Reactions to audio clip from interview with Joy Butler
- Five Faces of Oppression
- Critiques of the design for gathering data
- Not all kids want to participate in gym class
- Grievance Studies affair
- Causation and Correlation
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Reference Articles:
IDA Dodgeball 101 - How To Play Dodgeball Rules
Dodgeball isn't just problematic, it's an unethical tool of 'oppression': researchers
Dodgeball is a tool of ‘oppression’ used to ‘dehumanize’ others, researchers argue
Professor Joy Butler’s Perspectives on Bullying and Dodgeball Game
David Staples: The world needs more dodgeball, not less of it
Twitter Pool, regarding banning Dodgeball
Don't pick on dodgeball. It's no more 'oppressive' or 'problematic' than any sport
FB post with screen shots of articles with similar title
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
Youtube Playlist for The Grievance Studies Affair Documentary
Statistical Analysis Conclusions Explained
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Friday Oct 12, 2018
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Ontario is requiring tax payer funded colleges and universities to develop their own free speech policy based on the University of Chicago Statement on Principles of Free Expression. Darnell & Joel discuss the various aspects of free speech:
- free speech laws in Canada vs USA
- accountable for your free speech
- restrictions on free speech: Canada's hate speech laws
- safe spaces
- society needs competing ideas
- are Christians hypocritical on free speech
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Reference Articles:
John Carpay: Ontario starts the hard work of returning free speech to universities
Upholding Free Speech on Ontario's University and College Campuses
Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Canada’s law on hate speech is the embodiment of compromise
Exposure to different points of view is at the core of higher learning
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Friday Sep 07, 2018
Friday Sep 07, 2018
Trinity Western University lost their appeal for law school accreditation by the Supreme Court of Canada on the basis that the school's community covenant denied equal access to the legal profession. Deina Warren acted as co-counsel with Derek Ross for the intervener Christian Legal Fellowship in this appeal. Deina joins Darnell & Joel to discuss this case. The conversation covers the following:
- Trinity Western's Community Covenant
- Historical context for getting to the supreme court
- 2001 Court Case for Teacher's College Accreditation re: Covenant
- Unprecendent behaviour by the Supreme Court and its representatives during the case
- The law being used as a sword instead of a shield
Reference Articles:
Trinity Western Loses law school appeal at Supreme Court
Trinity Western and the Endangerment of Religious Pluralism in Canada
The TWU decision is a blow to diversity
Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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Friday Aug 24, 2018
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Accusations of racism have been directed at a principal from a school in Etobicoke and an NYC private school. Darnell & Joel discuss the following:
- List of black students distributed in Etobicoke school to track “achievement gaps”
- NYC private school segregation of students
- Toronto's Africentric Alternative School
- Institutional Racism
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Reference Articles:
Father files human rights claim after discovering 'black list' of students in Etobicoke school
Posh school’s plan to segregate students by race draws parents’ ire
Africentric Alternative School
Institutional Racism defined in CBC.ca article and Mises.org Article
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