- A professor at Canada’s Mount Allison University has been suspended without pay due to student complaints about her allegedly “racist” and “discriminatory” personal blog.
"Professor Rima Azar, who teaches health psychology at the New Brunswick institution, also will have to undergo “equity, diversity and inclusion training” for her transgressions, the CBC reports.
These transgressions include 
- “denying systemic racism,”
- “talking about BIPOC students in unkind ways” and
- “labelling Black Lives Matter a radical group,”...
according to then-president of the Mount Allison Students’ Union Jonathan Ferguson.
In response to a student’s tweet, one of Azar’s posts read “[New Brunswick] is NOT racist. Canada is NOT racist. We do not have ‘systemic’ racism or ‘systemic’ discrimination. We just have systemic naivety because we are a young country and because we want to save the world.” Azar named the student in the post.
Mount Allison Communications Director Robert Hiscock said the two-month investigation into the matter “has made significant findings requiring action,” but refused to cite examples noting confidentiality agreements and school policy...Read all.
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