It is amazing how often this happens:
Yes, this is the same youth summer jobs program for which anti-abortion and otherwise problematicᵀᴹ organizations aren’t eligible for funding:
Under the new eligibility criteria being set out for applications this year, any employer wanting to use the money to hire youth for work that would undermine or restrict reproductive rights, promote intolerance or prejudice or that would otherwise discriminate on any prohibited grounds cannot receive funding.
Prohibited grounds for discrimination, as defined under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, include sex, age, religion, race, ethic origin, any form of disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
All of those were originally covered by the attestation wording introduced last year.
However, the changes to the attestation set to be announced would essentially remove the responsibility of specifically attesting to those from the employer.
Instead, it will be up to Service Canada to assess applications and determine whether employers meet the criteria.
At best, some bureaucrat at Service Canada saw the group’s name, assumed it couldn’t possibly “promote intolerance or prejudice,” and rubber-stamped the application.
If the people at Service Canada did know what this group was all about, well, we have a serious problem.
George Russell’s victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday was significant for several reasons: it’s his first ever Formula One race win, the first win for the Mercedes team in what’s been an extremely disappointing season, and it came just after the team’s main crypto sponsor collapsed and its logo was removed from the car.
Maybe that’s what had been holding them back all along.
But it’s also notable because Russell was the first British victor of a Formula Once race since the death of Queen Elizabeth II and he ascension of King Charles III to the throne.
The first British F1 race winner was Mike Hawthorn at the 1953 French Grand Prix, a few weeks after Her Majesty’s coronation. Which means this is the first time we’ve ever heard “God Save The King” played for the winner of a Formula One race.
An historic moment, but I was surprised how much they sound alike. Almost like it’s the same anthem with one noun and a few pronouns changed, or something. 🤔