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FIRST READING: University founded to memorialize dead white men now rejecting white men for jobs

Five active job postings by Memorial University explicitly bar applications from heterosexual white men

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FIRST READING: University founded to memorialize dead white men now rejecting white men for jobs Back to video

In what may mark a new milestone in the annals of race-based Canadian hiring, Newfoundland and Labrador’s only university currently has five academic job postings that are explicitly forbidden for straight white men.

Memorial University, located in the provincial capital of St. John’s, was founded as a “living memorial” to the outsized number of Newfoundland men killed in the First World War. Job postings for the university make note of this, reminding applicants that the school exists so that their “cause and sacrifice might not be forgotten.”

But this month, five of those same job postings also contain itemized restrictions excluding the one cohort that made up the overwhelming majority of Newfoundland’s war dead.

Specifically, the five jobs are advertised exclusively for “women; 2SLGBTQIA people; Indigenous peoples; racialized persons; and persons with disabilities.”

Memorial University’s bloc of identity-screened job postings was first noted in a Monday social media post by independent journalist Chris Brunet.

This week the only university in Newfoundland, @MemorialU, posted 5........

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