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[lanforod]

I would answer no to all of those questions. There is a caveat on the first two though: if there isn’t enough demand to fill the school with solely Catholic students and teachers, it makes sense to allow non Catholic students and to a lesser degree, teachers. Which is how our local Catholic schools operate .
There are always going to be places where rights and freedoms will conflict.

Tell me where that conflict is in a job posting for a comp sci prof that excludes white men? There isn’t one. It’s solely discriminatory against those men without affecting anyone else’s rights if those men were given the same consideration based on merit instead.

[FogPub]

Whether or  not catholic schools actually accept non catholic students was not the question... I have a non catholic family member attending one also.

 

What was your answer/opinion on each questions posed?     I do not want to know your answers.

 

 Just trying to ask questions where your answers  may or may not provide you food for more personal individual thought on the subject of discrimination.

 

To the specific questions you posed:

 

To the first three regarding Catholic schools, my answer is "no", not because I think only Catholics should be able to be involved but because I think those and any other exclusivist-style school (including all private schools) simply should not exist.

 

To the final two re Catholic priesthood etc., I am not Catholic thus those are not my questions to answer.

[Victoria Watcher]

Safety in numbers: UVic researcher aims to break stigma on group sex

 

 

The Group Sex Project aims to collect 750 responses to benefit people who engage in these common but stigmatized sexual behaviours

 

https://www.vicnews....oup-sex-7821240

 

 

 

 

Researchers are working in partnership with a community advisory board of people with experience attending and/or hosting group sex events in southwestern British Columbia. Through this, they’re hoping to develop resources, to ensure health-care providers are better prepared to serve this population.

 

 

 

[...]

 

 

“There’s this stereotype of group sex as hedonistic, unscrupulous pursuit of sex. For many people, group sex comes with a strong sense of community and belonging and feelings of closeness and friendship with other people they’re participating in group sex with.” 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 February 2025 - 10:11 PM.

[Matt R.]

“That’s a lot of condoms!” — Elon Musk 2025

[Victoria Watcher]

[lanforod]

Source for that: https://www.mindingt...grads/#comments

 

Sounds like they defined administrator as staff. ie. non-faculty. Not sure if it includes blue collar roles like residence staff, facilities management, grounds, security. UVic's ratio is definitely lower than 1/4, but I'm not sure what it would work out to be. Maybe 1/10.

[Victoria Watcher]

Vancouver Island University’s president, who has become the face of austerity measures at the university, is now under fire from both faculty and students over the handling of a multi-million dollar deficit.

 

Deborah Saucier’s administration has been operating with a deficit ever since she became president in 2019.

 

https://www.timescol...t-woes-10353664

[E2V]

Sounds like what usually happens when someone tries to responsibly address economic realities.

[Victoria Watcher]

UBC Okanagan student union bans Conservative club

 

 

The student union at the University of British Columbia Okanagan has prohibited a group of students from forming a campus Conservative club.

 

https://www.junonews...&utm_medium=web

 

 

So the answer here of course, is to just form the club, with or without official recognition or funding and recruit heavily on campus.  And then of course a lawyer should be working on this for them.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 March 2025 - 12:24 AM.

[dasmo]

Just wait until Bill 7 comes out. Then the university can get Eby to declare conservative clubs illegal!

[lanforod]

UBC Okanagan student union bans Conservative club

 

 

The student union at the University of British Columbia Okanagan has prohibited a group of students from forming a campus Conservative club.

 

https://www.junonews...&utm_medium=web

 

 

So the answer here of course, is to just form the club, with or without official recognition or funding and recruit heavily on campus.  And then of course a lawyer should be working on this for them.

 

'We think you might be discriminatory so we're gonna discriminate against you first'...

[FogPub]

^ I'm no Conservative supporter but banning a student club is way over the top.

 

Stupid move.

[Barrister]

It is pretty well the norm in BC

[Victoria Watcher]

In a rare victory for free expression on Canada’s university campuses, UBC Okanagan’s student union has allowed a Conservative club to exist just days after voting to ban the group.

 

The about-face comes after significant blowback from the student union’s initial decision to not allow the club to form over concerns it might make some students “feel unwelcome.”

 

https://www.junonews...e-club-ratified

[Victoria Watcher]

The chair of transgender studies at the University of Victoria is worried about attendance at this year’s Moving Trans History Forward conference, with expectations of a 40 per cent drop in numbers.

 

Aaron Devor says American potential attendees are reluctant to cross the border — not because of what might happen when they enter Canada, but what could happen when they try to return to the United States.

 

He says the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump sent a chill through the trans community in January with an executive order that the federal government recognizes two sexes, male and female, that cannot change and are an “immutable biological classification” from conception.

 

Devor says the biennial trans history conference that begins Thursday was hoping for 500 attendees based on past events, but only about 300 were now expected.

 

 

https://cheknews.ca/...-slump-1246111/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 March 2025 - 03:41 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

Vancouver Island University’s president, who has become the face of austerity measures at the university, is now under fire from both faculty and students over the handling of a multi-million dollar deficit.

 

Deborah Saucier’s administration has been operating with a deficit ever since she became president in 2019.

 

https://www.timescol...t-woes-10353664

 

 

 

 

Weeks after the Vancouver Island University students and faculty unions called for her resignation, the school’s president has announced she is stepping down.

 

Deborah Saucier’s resignation will take effect April 4, and Emily Huner, who is currently the chief financial officer and vice-president of administration for the university, will serve as the acting president.

 

Saucier has served as the president and vice-chancellor for six years.

 

“It has been an honour to serve as president and vice-chancellor of VIU. I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished together. I count myself fortunate to have worked with a community so dedicated to VIU’s mission. We have celebrated many accomplishments – from supporting students to strengthening our ties with Indigenous communities,” Saucier said in a news release Thursday.

 

 

https://cheknews.ca/...nation-1246248/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 March 2025 - 03:26 PM.

[Mike K.]

Can someone explain to me how supporting a political party that runs deficits is ok, but a university that runs deficits is not ok. What is the difference?

Is it that the debt payable is the responsibility of and only of the benefactors of budgeting that produces the deficit?

[Victoria Watcher]

Wasn’t she pressured to quit because she didn’t want to run big deficits?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 March 2025 - 07:36 AM.

[Mike K.]

That’s what I’m not understanding.

That is not being made clear here. I thought so too, but then the above article clip implies she stepped down because she had run deficits since 2019.

[lanforod]

I don’t think universities in BC can legally run a deficit. Not sure how they got away with it for so long.