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Toronto Schools Remove ‘Chief’ From Job Titles to Avoid Offending Indigenous People

Canada’s largest school board decided last week to remove the word "chief" from job titles to avoid offending indigenous peoples.

The Toronto District School Board—which oversees all secular, English-speaking schools in the city—is following the recommendation of its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up to document past abuses of indigenous children in Canada’s former residential school system and to make recommendations to address and right any wrongs, the Canadian Press reported.

Accordingly, titles like "chief financial officer," "chief academic officer," and "chief communications officer" will be renamed, despite the use of the word "chief" in those instances not referring to indigenous Canadians.

"It may not have originated as an indigenous word, but the fact is that it is used as a slur in some cases, or in a negative way to describe indigenous people," Ryan Bird, a school board spokesman, said in an interview last Wednesday.

"With that in mind, as it has become a slur in some cases, that’s the decision the administration has made to be proactive on that," he added.

Damien Lee, an assistant professor of indigenous studies at the University of Saskatchewan, told the Toronto Star that the word carries "baggage."

"It has been used as a pejorative," he said. "Some people will use it in a kind of demeaning way."

Another academic said an alternative to "chief" should be found if the term is offensive, but noted that the word’s associations with First Nations, certain indigenous peoples of Canada, can be positive.

"If that usage is going to genuinely hurt a group of people, then I would say yes, by all means, let’s see if we can find an alternative," said Mark Morton, who works at the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Teaching Excellence and studies the origin of words. "On the other hand, the word originated outside of the context of First Nations cultures … and the First Nations associations that it has, I don’t think are negative."

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Trump on GOP Senators: ‘We’re Not Getting the Job Done, and I’m Not Going to Blame Myself’

President Donald Trump took a swipe at Senate Republicans at a Cabinet meeting on Monday, blaming them for "not getting the job done" while exonerating himself.

Trump’s comment came in response to a reporter’s question on former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s "war on" Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.).

Trump said that Bannon is "very committed" and "a friend of mine" before adding, "Despite what the press writes, I have great relationships with actually many senators, but in particular with most Republican senators."

Trump then said he is disappointed in the lack of legislative progress during his time in office, but excluded himself from any blame for it.

"But we’re not getting the job done, and I’m not going to blame myself," he said. "I’ll be honest. They are not getting the job done."

"We’ve had health care approved and then you had a surprise vote by [Sen.] John McCain [R., Ariz.]. We’ve had other things happen. And they’re not getting the job done," Trump continued.

The president then said he could "understand" where Bannon and others are coming from with their dissatisfaction with Republican leaders in Congress.

"I can understand where a lot of people are coming from, because I’m not happy about it and a lot of people aren’t happy about it," Trump said. "We need tax cuts. We need health care."

Trump then said that "we’re going to get the health care done," claiming that "Obamacare is finished; it’s dead, gone. You shouldn’t even mention it."

He suggested finding a short-term fix to the country’s health care system to prevent premiums from continuing to increase for many Americans.

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Apple ‘head of diversity’ apologizes for saying white men are not all exactly the same

Pretty delicious irony here: If your job is “head of diversity,” you don’t have to design computers or software or anything like that. But you can fail at your job, and you would do that by acknowledging that there’s any concept of diversity apart from what the cultural orthodoxy says.

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Trump Talks Welfare Crackdown: ‘Some People Are Really Taking Advantage Of Our System’

During a Monday Cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump hinted at a welfare crackdown.

“Some people are really taking advantage of our system,” said Trump. “And we are going to be looking very, very strongly therefore at welfare reform.”

“People are taking advantage of the system and then other people aren’t receiving what they really need to live,” continued the president. “And we think it’s very unfair to them.”

The Republicans, who have a majority in both the House and the Senate, have yet to pass an Obamacare replacement, something they’ve run on for some eight years; tax reform is expected to hit Trump’s desk before January 1; and legislation to seemingly legalize Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients has been tossed to Congress.

As reported by CNN, Trump did not harp on welfare reform during the 2016 presidential election: “Welfare reform was not something Trump emphasized on the campaign trail, but his first budget proposal — unveiled earlier this year — proposed sweeping cuts to food stamps and welfare programs by restricting those who are eligible for such programs.”

“We want to get our people off of welfare and back to work,” said Trump during the 2016 campaign. “So important. It’s out of control. It’s out of control.”

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NRA Spokeswoman Forced to Move Family Due to Leftist Death Threats

The derangement of the left following President Trump’s election victory is tip-toeing a very fine line between seething, ready to explode fury and full-scale violence and someone is going to end up getting killed unless someone emerges as a leader.

The Democrats, their surrogates, and most of all, the head of the left’s government in exile Hillary Clinton, continue to push the buttons of the crazies on a daily basis and very soon, there will be a high-profile murder or two that could trigger civil unrest but that is exactly what a certain sore loser seems to want.

NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch isn’t taking any chances as death threats that she has reportedly been receiving since the Las Vegas shooting have resulted in her having to uproot her family and make a sudden move for the safety of herself and her family.

Loesch took to Twitter to tell the story and to call out the leftist fanatics ignoring the treatment of conservative women while getting on their high horses over Hollywood pervert Harvey Weinstein’s victims as well as to emphasize why it is important for women to be cognizant of their Second Amendment rights.

Loesch did have one very notable reply who offered her sympathy – Chelsea Clinton!

Perhaps she should try speaking with her mother for all of the poison that she pumps out on a daily basis.

It is American tradition for the losers of elections to participate in a peaceful transfer of power, not goad on unstable lunatics to mount an insurrection against the winner.

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