{"id":14834,"date":"2021-11-18T19:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=14834"},"modified":"2021-11-18T19:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:01:53","slug":"what-do-our-canadian-universities-led-by-the-university-of-calgary-want-to-achieve-with-pledges-like-the-scarborough-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/what-do-our-canadian-universities-led-by-the-university-of-calgary-want-to-achieve-with-pledges-like-the-scarborough-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"What do our Canadian universities, led by the University of Calgary, want to achieve with pledges like the Scarborough Charter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Why-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14838\" width=\"188\" height=\"208\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading the <em>Scarborough Charter<\/em> posted on the University of Calgary&#8217;s website (<a href=\"https:\/\/designrr.page\/?id=140172&amp;token=1735715840&amp;type=FP&amp;h=9346\">https:\/\/designrr.page\/?id=140172&amp;token=1735715840&amp;type=FP&amp;h=9346<\/a>), Bambi still has no clue what the University administrators featured in the videos below mean? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are their words empty (just stating the obvious: Do you know anyone who does not want justice, mutuality, equality, accountability, etc.?)? Or do these words hide a concrete agenda for increased bureaucracy of the flourishing industry of so-called &#8220;<em>diversity, equity,  and inclusion<\/em>&#8220;? Or maybe both? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are our universities in financial crises and is our federal government tying funds (of research chairs) to the promotion of such UN-based ideologies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there a real problem here and, if so, what are the concrete proposed solutions? And where are we heading with all this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mind you, Dr. Malinda Smith is also referring to Canada as &#8220;<em>the Indigenous territories now known as Canada<\/em>&#8220;, like the language used by the University of Alberta (as per the older post shown further below).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Scarborough Charter Signing and Launch with Malinda Smith\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCxTpNwqMuU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Scarborough Charter Signing and Launch with Ed McCauley\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xt3xm05wJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bambi-039-s-afkar\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"w7zsLo3llY\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/why-is-the-university-of-alberta-calling-bambis-beloved-country-this-place-now-called-canada-in-one-of-its-job-ads\/\">Why is the University of Alberta calling Bambi&#8217;s beloved country &#8220;this place now called Canada&#8221; in one of its job ads?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Why is the University of Alberta calling Bambi&#8217;s beloved country &#8220;this place now called Canada&#8221; in one of its job ads?&#8221; &#8212; Bambi&#039;s Afkar\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/why-is-the-university-of-alberta-calling-bambis-beloved-country-this-place-now-called-canada-in-one-of-its-job-ads\/embed\/#?secret=w7zsLo3llY\" data-secret=\"w7zsLo3llY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the Scarborough Charter posted on the University of Calgary&#8217;s website (https:\/\/designrr.page\/?id=140172&amp;token=1735715840&amp;type=FP&amp;h=9346), Bambi still has no clue what the University administrators featured in the videos below mean? Are their words empty (just stating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14834"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14848,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions\/14848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}