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Why is the research council paying $75,000 for AI agents that optimize EDI?

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) lists a $75,000 contribution to a Montreal company, under an agreement starting April 13, 2026, to develop artificial intelligence agents for equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in scientific research, the federal grants disclosure shows. The recipient is Scikoop inc., and the contribution’s title is “ARP – Development of AI Agents to Optimize Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Research.” Its stated purpose: “This project will help democratize EDI best practices within the Canadian scientific ecosystem.”

The money comes from the NRC’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), which exists, in its own words, to help small firms “grow through innovation and stimulate wealth creation for Canada.” Scikoop says it helps health research teams with “data representativity and community engagement,” offers “representativeness AI tools” and sells “research certification.” Its about page lists “Making EDI Work for Science” as one of three things it does, names Adèle Salin-Cantegrel as executive director and shows “CNRC PARI,” the French name of IRAP, among its supporters. The ODISÉ research network lists Scikoop under “EDI-A research support,” with a “Scikoop Certification” for teams showing “responsible and inclusive research practices.”

The grant runs to March 31, 2027. On September 21, 2026, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research tabled a report recommending that the three federal granting agencies remove all references to EDI from the awarding of research funding and ban demographic quotas and proportionality targets; the report also backed EDI training for applicants, and does not address IRAP or this contribution.

At a February 23 meeting, members had asked whether EDI requirements affect perceptions of merit. The NRC, which reports to Parliament through the Minister of Industry, told the committee on March 12 that “funding decisions are merit-based and guided by clear eligibility and assessment criteria,” while reducing its grants and contributions under the expenditure review and adding funding to IRAP.

The record does not name who approved the contribution. NRC President Mitch Davies was appointed for five years from January 3, 2024, announced by Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne on December 20, 2023; IRAP is run by acting vice-president Laural Porth-Jones; the Minister of Industry is Mélanie Joly.

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Plant Biology Textbooks Seeded With Insidious Misogyny, Claims Gender-Expansive Academic

As the political commentariat is awash in hyperbole, dismissing the oft-noted truism that the progressive left and their sponsors in academia/corporate America/government are “at war with nature/reality” as hyperbole is easy.

How hyperbolic is it, though, really?

Exhibit A:

Contexts is an ostensibly, self-styled professional journal that “makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to journalists, policymakers, sociologists, and general readers,” released recently a progressive missive masquerading as a scientific study documenting and denouncing, in one go, the “rape culture” endemic to the textbook publishing industry, specifically as it pertains to plant descriptions in biology textbooks.

Cutting-edge!

Via Contexts:

“Scientific stories about plant reproduction often draw on gender stereotypes and myth, making such myths appear natural. Based on an analysis of introductory biology textbooks, the authors demonstrate how the authors of these books cast male plants and plant parts as active heroes while portraying their female counterparts as passive, reluctant, or sometimes even deceptive…

Although we often describe plant reproduction in human terms, its biological reality in fact differs dramatically from our own…

However, popular and even scientific accounts of plant reproduction rarely depict the process in this manner. Instead, biology textbook authors describe plant reproduction through a set of habitually repeated stories that reliably draw on conventional gender stereotypes, reflecting those found in mainstream accounts of human reproduction. In doing so, they cast male plants and plant parts as active heroes—delivering, competing, accomplishing—and portray their female counterparts as passive, reluctant, or sometimes even deceptive.

When textbook authors rely on everyday narratives about women and men to explain plant sex, they make myths about gender difference appear inevitable and natural…

These patterns reflect broader systems of power and inequality that we often take for granted as normal or commonsensical. When scientists repeatedly link activity, independence, and success with masculinity, and passivity, dependence, or even failure with femininity, they communicate these gender myths to students, scientific communities, and the public.”

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Ideology, Intolerance, and Emotional Reactivity Behind Unsupported Claims That Online Words and Images Cause Violence

Over the last decade, politicians, NGOs, and journalists across the West have blamed online speech for real-world political violence. In Australia recently, politicians and others blamed social media for an attack on a left-wing member of parliament, Helen Haines, who was run over by a man in his car. “We’ve got these big US social media companies and their business model, to me, seems pretty incompatible,” said Senator David Pocock after the attack. “That’s something we’ve got to look very hard at as a country and as elected representatives.” Said Bill Shorten, a former Labor leader who now runs the University of Canberra, “I think that some people, through the algorithms of the big tech bros and social media, have been radicalized online.” Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australia’s FBI, decried a “permissive environment of violence.” And Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Krissy Barrett said the things politicians said online “does have a direct correlation to what we see in terms of threats and abuse.”

But it was clear within hours that the alleged attacker of the Australian MP was intoxicated and likely mentally ill, and within days it was revealed that he and his family had been friends with her for years. A source close to the investigation said he “was known to police” and that “It is understood he has undergone a mental health assessment.” People online quickly discovered that the alleged attacker had posted regularly about climate change and Gaza and that the head of the Australian Green Party followed him on X. As such, he attacked the member of Parliament closest to his apparent views, which challenges the notion that his politics motivated him. As for Barrett, she declined to give a single example of things people said online resulting in real-world violence.

Correlation is not causation. Killers may have consumed violent media, but so too did practically everyone else in society. It would make sense that would-be killers, who often fantasize about their violence before doing it, would consume more violent content. And so if there is a relationship, it could show the opposite causal direction.

Moreover, relying on the testimony of killers, many of whom suffer from personality disorders or mental illness, is irrational. The man who shot Ronald Reagan said he did so out of an obsession with Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver.” Nobody proposed censoring “Taxi Driver,” Scorsese movies, or Foster, and yet politicians and bureaucrats around the world proposed mass online censorship because the Buffalo shooter said he was inspired by Christchurch.

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Harvard Medical School Holds Panel Raising Whether Weight Loss Drugs Are An Imperialistic, Militaristic Plot

Harvard University is facing another controversy after its medical school held an event on “the Pathology of Unruly Bodies.” The most surprising part is that it was not a reference to the Harvard faculty itself. Rather, a panel composed of non-medical experts was railing against anti-obesity drugs as part of “indoctrination” to support the ills of “empire and imperialism.” Welcome to the state of higher education in America.

The panel was devoid of actual medical experts. It was dressed up in medical terms with the use of the word “pathology.” It could have easily been billed as “GLP-1 Anti-Body.” The panel included such experts as Da’Shaun L Harrison, who recently drew notoriety for claiming at the Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago that GLP-1 medications constitute “genocide” against fat people.

Another headliner was Roxane Gay, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University – New Brunswick and the artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School. Professor Gay (the cousin of former Harvard University President Claudine Gay) had called for the release of Luigi Mangione, who murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, two years ago.

Despite her extremism and penchant for murderers like Mangione, Gay writes for the New York Times and apparently likes to flip off people in public. Harvard decided she was exactly what they needed to help shape their medical students. She is part of the radical chic of higher education, where no views are too far left (while departments purge conservatives and libertarians).

Harrison quickly picked up where she left off at the Socialist Convention with bizarre claims. Rather than claiming that drug companies were engaging in the genocide of fat people with weight-loss drugs, she explained that the companies were really militarizing an imperialist state: “This practice of forcing people into manipulating and changing or shifting how they look is oftentimes about making bodies militarisable. Building up a military to defend an imperialist state.“

She further claimed:

“A lot of doctors, medical professionals and folks who collaborate with them – be it through the government or media – are advocating for atrocities that are directly impacting our citizens, but also citizens around the globe.

It then becomes about creating this ideal body that you are always being pushed and pulled towards, as a way to represent this patriotism that is intended to indoctrinate one into the military, into the defense of the country.”

The suggestion that weight loss is an imperialist militaristic plot is obviously bonkers. It is the kind of raving you would expect on a subway from someone wearing a handmade cardboard sign and a tin foil hat.

However, Harvard Medical School views that person as a serious expert on the pathologies of weight loss.

Notably, not a single Harvard faculty member expressed unease over the programming. Medical students are facing an array of tough technological and economic conditions. Yet, the administration wants them to sit through far-left indoctrinations from the likes of Gay and Harrison.

Harvard is not alone. Various medical schools have incorporated radical social agendas into their curricula or events. We recently discussed how UCLA Medical School held a panel on which psychiatrists defended self-immolation in protesting Israel. In an earlier post, we discussed a mandatory lecture at UCLA of one of the university’s “activists-in-residence” replete with anti-Semitic postings and racist rhetoric.

The hiring of figures like Gay and the radical programs at these schools show that faculty have little intention to change the ideological echo chamber in higher education. It is truly a pathology of unruly bodies.

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DEI Continues: DOJ Discovers Discrimination Against Whites and Asians at Ohio State Medical School Despite Supreme Court Ruling

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that Ohio State’s medical school was found to have discriminated against white and Asian applicants in violation of federal law.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division cited admissions practices for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 incoming classes, saying that the school violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on color or race, according to a news release.

The Justice Department also mentioned the 2023 Supreme Court decision of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which effectively banned affirmative action.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said, “Despite SFFA, OSU Med allows some applicants to bypass its own screening process and skip interviews solely because of the color of their skin.”

“A university’s admissions process, and all its stages, should apply equally to all applicants regardless of race,” she continued. “The use of a separate admissions process based on race is plainly illegal under federal law, and this Department will not allow these appalling practices to continue at OSU Med or any other federally funded higher ed institution.”

The release went on to describe how OSU used a “Holistic Approach” as a workaround to admit so-called “underrepresented minorities.”

In addition, the medical school’s admissions process has an interview stage, but the DOJ discovered that black applicants who are screened and interviewed “are about 2.8 times as likely to be admitted than Asian applicants with equal credentials.”

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Why is Ottawa’s anti-racism fund paying $217,200 for an Atlantic ‘inclusive politics’ project?

Canadian Heritage’s anti-racism fund has committed $217,200 to the PEI Coalition for Women’s Leadership for a project called the Atlantic Alliance for Inclusive Politics, under an agreement listed as running from April 6, 2026 to March 30, 2028, according to the federal grants disclosure. The coalition’s interim executive director is Hannah Bell, who sat in the Prince Edward Island legislature as a Green Party member from 2017 to 2023 and ran for the provincial Green leadership in 2025, finishing with 147 votes.

The grant record describes the project only as “Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program – CAHAP – Projects”. A July 22, 2026 call for applicants on the coalition’s website says “The Atlantic Alliance for Inclusive Politics is a project to address rising hate, harassment, and the exclusion of marginalized people from political spaces in Atlantic Canada.” The only component advertised so far is a youth advisory council: “A minimum of three members per province”, “One year, with four group online meetings overall”, a “$250 honorarium” each, and “Themes discussed will include experiences and impacts of polarization, hate, and racism.” The page says “This project funded by the Government of Canada.” No Canadian Heritage news release announcing the grant could be found.

Rebel News listed the grant on October 16 among 78 anti-hate projects worth $11 million. The programme’s stated objectives are to “advance anti-racism, foster ethnocultural diversity and inclusion and promote intercultural and interfaith understanding” and to “provide equitable opportunities for equity-deserving populations”; its page does not mention political participation. Nothing on the record ties the project to any party.

The coalition, known until September 2024 as the PEI Coalition for Women in Government, has received federal money before: $246,557 from Status of Women Canada in 2015 for a project on women on provincial agencies and boards, and $360,000 announced by Women and Gender Equality Canada in February 2021 for capacity building and governance.

Marc Miller was Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, the minister for Canadian Heritage, when the agreement started, appointed by Prime Minister Mark Carney on December 1, 2025. The department’s organizational chart lists Annalisa Bonardi as Acting Director General, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism.

A group led by a former Green MLA gets $217,200 of anti-racism money for a project on politics whose only advertised piece is a youth council with four online meetings.

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BBC Game Rewards Kids For Supporting Open Borders

The BBC’s education platform, used by nearly 1.7 million schoolchildren every week, is gamifying open borders. In a Roblox-hosted game called Increasing Immigration aimed at pupils aged 11 to 14, choosing to deport migrants living in the UK without proper visas loses points on the economy and public health.

Players are warned: “This can be potentially dangerous for them [the immigrants]. Don’t expect this to be unchallenged!”

Grant them an amnesty instead and the message is clear. “This will make them very happy.” Economy and public health scores rise.

A separate scenario tells geography pupils that allowing people to pass through the border easily “could really help grow our economy.” Selecting open borders yields three economy points and two public health points. Rejecting it as “too radical” scores nothing.

Instructions open with the claim: “We don’t have enough people of working age to keep our society running smoothly. We should try to attract migrant workers and incorporate them into our economy.”

Materials elsewhere state that concerns migrants will take jobs from locals “likely arises from prejudice.” The site lists twice as many benefits of migration as disadvantages.

Housing set aside for migrants scores positively. Almost every option aligned with border control produces negative results.

BBC Bitesize is promoted by almost every UK state school and reaches half of children aged four to 16.

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Wokeness On Steroids! Portland State science features ‘decolonized library,’ ‘Critical Race spatial lens’

Portland State University took the weird step of “using what its architecture firm calls a ‘Critical Race spatial lens,’ incorporating a ‘decolonized library’ and other spaces intended to expand how students engage with science, according to a Campus Reform report.

“BORA Architecture, the firm behind the project, describes the design as an effort to address “historical inequalities” in science education.”

In case there was any ambiguity as to what this was referring to, “BORA says it engaged black, indigenous, and other students of color in discussions that influenced its design decisions.”

“Our design process leveraged a Critical Race spatial lens to address historic inequalities in science education,” the firm states.

Apparently Portland State never got the message that “we don’t need to do this anymore.”

The era of Wokeness and CRT may be over in much of the country, but clearly that has not reached the so-called institutes of “higher learning”.

“BORA also describes a community gathering room, a food and plant teaching kitchen, and a “decolonized library” as spaces that “push beyond typical Westernized lab offerings.”

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Woke Democrat Kansas Senate Candidate Calls for “Repentance Over White Privilege” in Resurfaced Video

Woke Democrat pastor Adam Hamilton is hoping to defeat incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) in Kansas.

A resurfaced video, however, may not help his efforts in the deep-red state,

In the summer of 2020, during the height of the violent and destructive George Floyd riots, Hamilton suggested members of his congregation at the Church of the Resurrection recognize their “White privilege” and “repent.”

Hamilton said in the video, “Like part of what I know is that, is that I grew up in a way that I’m blind to certain things in our society.”

“I just am. And I have certain benefits by virtue of being educated, White, and male, right?”

“And we don’t like to hear that, especially White folks don’t like to hear that. But there are benefits that come along with that.”

He continued, “There are benefits and privileges to my place in life. I have to recognize that. To see that. And then I have to listen. I have to listen and understand, and finally be able to see the brokenness in myself, and my indifference.”

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Justice Canada funds $222,058 training for sexual-orientation court reports

The Department of Justice has signed a $222,058 contribution agreement with Black LGBTQ Justice Canada Inc. of Toronto to train and certify authors of “Black LGBTQ Justice Affirming Assessment Reports,” a new kind of court report that brings a defendant’s sexual orientation and gender identity into their dealings with the criminal justice system, according to the federal grants disclosure database. 

The agreement runs from July 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027 under the department’s Legal Aid program.

The record describes the reports as “Similar to Impact of Race Culture Assessments” and says they “incorporate sexual orientation, gender identity, and other intersectional considerations into reports that supports Black LGBTQ individuals’ interactions with the criminal justice system”. The project will “offer training and certification” in the reports, “accredited through the Law Society of Ontario”, through a four-module curriculum delivered in three sessions in Vancouver, Halifax and Montreal.

Impact of Race and Culture Assessments, known as IRCAs, are pre-sentencing reports that Justice Canada says “help sentencing judges to better understand the effect of poverty,” marginalization and racism, and that “have been used primarily for Black offenders, both adults and youth, at the sentencing stage.” 

Ottawa committed $6.64 million over five years to IRCAs, followed by $1.6 million a year.

Rebel News has covered IRCAs in our Justice Watch series, including a Nova Scotia case in which a judge cut a sex offender’s sentence after a race and culture assessment.

Black LGBTQ Justice Canada says its mission “charts the course for justice-impacted Black LGBTQ individuals through holistic, affirming support.” Its website lists Dr. Wesley Crichlow as founder and a board co-chaired by Emma Joseph and Tandy Clarke, and already advertises a “BLGBTQJAA Certification” with pages for Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and British Columbia. 

The record does not say whether the new reports are meant for sentencing, bail or elsewhere, or whether any court has yet accepted one.

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