Black Lives Matter-Ugliness of Racism.
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See the part that says everywhere you can ? Nice try .
Let me walk you through this real slow, so you can follow. You're trying to prove DC is high-crime by saying I carry wherever permitted. But it's not permitted in DC, so carry laws are irrelevant to whether I feel safe there or not.
Did your mom drink a lot when she was pregnant with you?
I'm in the worst neighbourhood in Canada. All I pack is a lunch. The shit show can run longer than an Oliver Stone film.
In this case, this is entirely accurate.
I don’t think the meth and the fentanyl from the last 15 years have improved things.
Veteran Boston TV news anchor claims she lost job because she's white
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ostmedia News
Published Aug 19, 2025 • 2 minute read
A Boston TV anchor claims in a lawsuit that she was demoted from her job because she’s a white woman, alleging she was the supposed victim of a “DEI agenda” at the Tiffany Network.
Katherine Merrill Dunham, better known as Kate Merrill while serving as a longtime anchor for CBS affiliate WBZ-TV, filed a lawsuit against the station’s corporate parents CBS and Paramount Global this month, alleging she was booted from the newsroom to appease corporate diversity quotas.
The 51-year-old is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and is married to former NHL goalie Mike Dunham.
She stunned viewers last year when she quit the station without giving viewers an explanation.
In her suit, filed in Boston federal court Aug. 5, Merrill alleged that she was targeted by managers who said the morning show was “too white” and by co-workers who filed “malicious” race-based complaints against her, per the New York Post.
The lawsuit cites exclusive reporting by the New York Post of then-CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, who was accused of using her position of power to promote minorities while sidelining white journalists during her tenure.
Ciprian-Matthews was named as president of CBS News in August 2023 despite being the subject of an internal probe by the company two years earlier over her alleged hiring practices, the Post reported.
“WBZ-TV exploited such policies and took career-ending action against Ms. Merrill to advance a DEI agenda,” according to the complaint.
Ciprian-Matthews stepped down last July and Paramount scrapped its DEI programs earlier this year.
According to the complaint, the difficulties started when Jason Mikell, a Black co-worker and meteorologist at WBZ, allegedly “made an inappropriate sexual innuendo about” Merrill “on air” in February 2024 when he “implied that Ms. Merrill and her co-anchor had sexual relations at a gazebo.”
The lawsuit alleges that despite complaints to supervisors by Merrill’s executive producer, Mikell “was not disciplined for his sexually charged remark about Ms. Merrill.”
In April 2024, after she privately texted him to correct a mispronunciation of “Concord,” Mikell allegedly “loudly yelled at her on the studio floor,” according to the suit.
Merrill claims she quickly complained to human resources; however, a week later, Paramount’s HR chief informed her that Mikell and Courtney Cole, a Black anchor hired by WBZ in 2022, had accused her of racial bias.
After 20 years at the station, the Emmy-winning broadcaster charges that she was branded a racist, demoted in public and forced into a “constructive discharge resignation.”
nypost.com
torontosun.com
Author of the article
ostmedia NewsPublished Aug 19, 2025 • 2 minute read
A Boston TV anchor claims in a lawsuit that she was demoted from her job because she’s a white woman, alleging she was the supposed victim of a “DEI agenda” at the Tiffany Network.
Katherine Merrill Dunham, better known as Kate Merrill while serving as a longtime anchor for CBS affiliate WBZ-TV, filed a lawsuit against the station’s corporate parents CBS and Paramount Global this month, alleging she was booted from the newsroom to appease corporate diversity quotas.
The 51-year-old is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and is married to former NHL goalie Mike Dunham.
She stunned viewers last year when she quit the station without giving viewers an explanation.
In her suit, filed in Boston federal court Aug. 5, Merrill alleged that she was targeted by managers who said the morning show was “too white” and by co-workers who filed “malicious” race-based complaints against her, per the New York Post.
The lawsuit cites exclusive reporting by the New York Post of then-CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, who was accused of using her position of power to promote minorities while sidelining white journalists during her tenure.
Ciprian-Matthews was named as president of CBS News in August 2023 despite being the subject of an internal probe by the company two years earlier over her alleged hiring practices, the Post reported.
“WBZ-TV exploited such policies and took career-ending action against Ms. Merrill to advance a DEI agenda,” according to the complaint.
Ciprian-Matthews stepped down last July and Paramount scrapped its DEI programs earlier this year.
According to the complaint, the difficulties started when Jason Mikell, a Black co-worker and meteorologist at WBZ, allegedly “made an inappropriate sexual innuendo about” Merrill “on air” in February 2024 when he “implied that Ms. Merrill and her co-anchor had sexual relations at a gazebo.”
The lawsuit alleges that despite complaints to supervisors by Merrill’s executive producer, Mikell “was not disciplined for his sexually charged remark about Ms. Merrill.”
In April 2024, after she privately texted him to correct a mispronunciation of “Concord,” Mikell allegedly “loudly yelled at her on the studio floor,” according to the suit.
Merrill claims she quickly complained to human resources; however, a week later, Paramount’s HR chief informed her that Mikell and Courtney Cole, a Black anchor hired by WBZ in 2022, had accused her of racial bias.
After 20 years at the station, the Emmy-winning broadcaster charges that she was branded a racist, demoted in public and forced into a “constructive discharge resignation.”
Boston TV news anchor claims she lost gig because she’s white — blames CBS’ ‘DEI agenda’
Katherine Merrill Dunham, known on-air as Kate Merrill, a longtime Boston news anchor for CBS affiliate WBZ-TV, filed suit earlier this month.
nypost.com
Veteran Boston TV news anchor claims she lost job because she's white
A Boston TV anchor claims in a lawsuit that she was demoted from her job because she’s a white woman.
African ancestral acknowledgement the new City Hall fad
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Sep 03, 2025 • Last updated 14 hours ago • 3 minute read
We need a deeper examination of what is happening at City Hall and how far this agenda will go.
The African ancestral acknowledgement is a new fad at City Hall, writes columnist Brian Lilley.
An “African Ancestral Acknowledgement” in city staff email signatures? They are now included as part of the opening statement before meetings at City Hall and one plays on a loop at Yonge-Dundas Square, the place city officials want us to call Sankofa Square.
Daniel Tate of Integrity TO, a City Hall watchdog group recently raised the alarm about the email practice.
Tate shared a screen shot of the email signature of Lisa Di Felice, the Coordinator Administration and Operations at the Office of the Integrity Commissioner. Her email signature now includes her pronouns, she/her in case you were wondering, plus a land acknowledgement and an African ancestral acknowledgement.
email signature with African ancestral acknowledgment
“Ideology has now seeped into every nook and cranny of life including email signatures,” Tate said.
Tate said that he’s been getting messages from City Hall insiders who say that staff are being told and pressured to open every meeting reading out both acknowledgements. It takes three to four minutes to read them both out loud.
Add that up across all city staff, all city meetings and you get one very expensive and performative waste of time and money.
“It’s a radical ritual that has nothing to do with governance,” Tate said.
So, it’s happening in meetings and now there is a soft but building pressure on staff to include all of these statements in their email signatures.
The average person reading this may have heard of a land acknowledgment before but is likely wondering what an African ancestral acknowledgment is and why we are doing this in Toronto.
According to a city document from February 2021, the practice at City Hall started in 2018 and has grown since then. It started out as “a voluntary recognition offered to support Black staff wishing to use it to acknowledge their ancestors of African descent who have been present and actively contributing to life on Treaty lands and traditional Indigenous territories since the early 1600s.”
Now it is growing, expanding and seeping into all parts of the city’s administration. In addition to an ancestral acknowledgment for Black people, there is one for those who aren’t black as well.
“Though I am not a person of African descent, I am committed to continually acting in support of and in solidarity with Black communities seeking freedom and reparative justice in light of the history and ongoing legacy of slavery that continues to impact Black communities in Canada,” the statement reads at the opening.
“As part of this commitment, I would also like to acknowledge that not all people came to these lands as migrants and settlers. Specifically, I wish to acknowledge those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery. In support of the City of Toronto’s ongoing efforts to confront anti-Black racism, I pay tribute to those ancestors of African origin and descent.”
What is reparative justice? It’s a phrase the document that accompanies the statement doesn’t define. It’s also questionable that the city is trying to link Toronto, and by extension Canada, to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade of which there was little to no involvement, and also fails to acknowledge Canada’s role in eradicating slavery as an institution.
These are questionable moves that are taking up a lot of time and effort by city staff and therefore costing city taxpayers dearly.
What value do they have?
The folks behind DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion, will tell you this is about bringing people together, about reconciliation and about healing. It’s not. It’s incredibly divisive but at Toronto City Hall, this is the new religion being pushed by staff and an army of consultants pushing an agenda.
“There is a burgeoning DEI bureaucracy at City Hall, and they inject their ideology into every department,” Tate said.
We need a deeper examination of what is happening at City Hall and how far this agenda will go and how much it will cost.
Stay tuned.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Sep 03, 2025 • Last updated 14 hours ago • 3 minute read
We need a deeper examination of what is happening at City Hall and how far this agenda will go.
The African ancestral acknowledgement is a new fad at City Hall, writes columnist Brian Lilley.
An “African Ancestral Acknowledgement” in city staff email signatures? They are now included as part of the opening statement before meetings at City Hall and one plays on a loop at Yonge-Dundas Square, the place city officials want us to call Sankofa Square.
Daniel Tate of Integrity TO, a City Hall watchdog group recently raised the alarm about the email practice.
Tate shared a screen shot of the email signature of Lisa Di Felice, the Coordinator Administration and Operations at the Office of the Integrity Commissioner. Her email signature now includes her pronouns, she/her in case you were wondering, plus a land acknowledgement and an African ancestral acknowledgement.
email signature with African ancestral acknowledgment
“Ideology has now seeped into every nook and cranny of life including email signatures,” Tate said.
Tate said that he’s been getting messages from City Hall insiders who say that staff are being told and pressured to open every meeting reading out both acknowledgements. It takes three to four minutes to read them both out loud.
Add that up across all city staff, all city meetings and you get one very expensive and performative waste of time and money.
“It’s a radical ritual that has nothing to do with governance,” Tate said.
So, it’s happening in meetings and now there is a soft but building pressure on staff to include all of these statements in their email signatures.
The average person reading this may have heard of a land acknowledgment before but is likely wondering what an African ancestral acknowledgment is and why we are doing this in Toronto.
According to a city document from February 2021, the practice at City Hall started in 2018 and has grown since then. It started out as “a voluntary recognition offered to support Black staff wishing to use it to acknowledge their ancestors of African descent who have been present and actively contributing to life on Treaty lands and traditional Indigenous territories since the early 1600s.”
Now it is growing, expanding and seeping into all parts of the city’s administration. In addition to an ancestral acknowledgment for Black people, there is one for those who aren’t black as well.
“Though I am not a person of African descent, I am committed to continually acting in support of and in solidarity with Black communities seeking freedom and reparative justice in light of the history and ongoing legacy of slavery that continues to impact Black communities in Canada,” the statement reads at the opening.
“As part of this commitment, I would also like to acknowledge that not all people came to these lands as migrants and settlers. Specifically, I wish to acknowledge those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery. In support of the City of Toronto’s ongoing efforts to confront anti-Black racism, I pay tribute to those ancestors of African origin and descent.”
What is reparative justice? It’s a phrase the document that accompanies the statement doesn’t define. It’s also questionable that the city is trying to link Toronto, and by extension Canada, to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade of which there was little to no involvement, and also fails to acknowledge Canada’s role in eradicating slavery as an institution.
These are questionable moves that are taking up a lot of time and effort by city staff and therefore costing city taxpayers dearly.
What value do they have?
The folks behind DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion, will tell you this is about bringing people together, about reconciliation and about healing. It’s not. It’s incredibly divisive but at Toronto City Hall, this is the new religion being pushed by staff and an army of consultants pushing an agenda.
“There is a burgeoning DEI bureaucracy at City Hall, and they inject their ideology into every department,” Tate said.
We need a deeper examination of what is happening at City Hall and how far this agenda will go and how much it will cost.
Stay tuned.
LILLEY: African ancestral acknowledgement the new City Hall fad
We need a deeper examination of what is happening at City Hall and how far this agenda will go.
I know, right? Everybody knows Canada and its predecessor British colonies never had slavery!
Not much slavery in British North America , some would call indentured servants slaves , with some merit . Britain was fighting slavery long before Canada became a country in 1867 .
Simcoe, a guy who gave Americans shit fits in the Revolutonary war.
The 1793 Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada was a compromise passed under Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe that banned the importation of new slaves and stipulated that children born into slavery would be freed at age 25. It did not free existing slaves but established Upper Canada as the first British territory to legislate against slavery, creating a haven for enslaved people escaping from the United States. The Act was a significant step toward gradual abolition, eventually leading to the full abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833.