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Leigh Revers: Ranking Canada's wokest companies

Twenty of the top 25 TSX-listed Canadian firms explicitly advocate for DEI in their job postings, but there are signs that sanity is starting to return

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When love dies, the ties that bind simply melt away. That’s the fate of the modern-day affair between western institutions and the virtue-imbued succubus of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

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How bad is DEI? At the extremes, the recent case of Henry Nowak, a murder victim who was handcuffed in his dying moments by British police rather than resuscitated — pandering to the assailant’s false claims of racism — can be traced to pervasive DEI training in the United Kingdom’s College of Policing and to such clumsily worded guidance as “our commitment to racial equity … does not mean treating everyone ‘the same.’ ”

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Across Canada, similarly myopic training and skewed hiring behaviours have become the norm in recent years, busily cultivating a nightmare future where box-checking supersedes talent and mastery. But there is still a glimmer of light at the end of the long DEI tunnel.

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