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Michael Higgins: Lessons for Canada from the U.K.'s DEI plagiarism scandal

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A disgraced black professor accused of being a fabulist, and the shaming of formerly world-renowned Cambridge University proves the toxic, divisive and destructive power of the much-loved progressive practice of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Jason Arday, once the darling of academia, resigned as a professor of sociology of education at Cambridge on Wednesday after a week of being pummeled in the press in an ever-increasing escalation of exposés.

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Arday, who at 37 became the youngest ever black professor at Cambridge in 2023, was feted for overcoming immense hardship and poverty in his early life. Autism and global development delay meant he didn’t speak until he was 11 and was unable to read or write until he was 18.

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