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“I Can’t Believe That N—-r” – Democrat Alaska Senate Candidate Mary Peltola Accused of Lashing Out at Army Veteran, Calling Him the N-Word

Two former staffers are accusing Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola of repeatedly using the n-word, including once to attack an Army veteran who organized a fundraiser for her.

An unnamed staffer says that during an October 25, 2024 dinner to honor Black Army soldiers who helped construct the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II, she used the slur while privately lashing out at the man promoting the event.

Ed Wesley, an Army veteran and former commander of the American Legion Post 34, had urged Peltola’s campaign to purchase multiple tables for the event, assuring her they would be filled. But when the event was poorly attended and the tables sat mostly empty, according to Alaska Landmine, Peltola lost it, calling Wesley a “scammer” and the n-word, according to the former staffer.

“I can’t believe that n—r,” she allegedly said.

According to another staffer, Peltola used the n-word multiple times during a 2024 campaign staff meeting.

Peltola’s campaign has denied the claims to the outlet and the New York Post. In a statement to the Post, they described it as “part of a smear campaign driven by an unstable, disgruntled former staffer.”

“Mary would never use this word, which is a vile slur with a painful, hateful history,” the spokesperson said.

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Useless Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling Throughout the City Because of Racism

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has just announced that she has banned all new oil and gas drilling throughout the city and then went on to explain that this was a problem that was being driven by racism.

This is especially ironic, given the fact that so many Democrats have been campaigning on gas prices in this midterm election cycle. Do they think this drilling ban will help lower prices?

Bass is not a serious mayor. She’s an absolute joke, and this is another reminder.

From the Center Sqaure, via Yahoo News:

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has signed an ordinance prohibiting new oil and gas drilling throughout the city and establishing a 20-year timetable to phase out existing wells.

Under the new ordinance, current drilling sites are designated as “nonconforming uses” and must cease operations within two decades, unless an earlier deadline applies. The ordinance restricts the expansion and redevelopment of existing operations while establishing limited exceptions for work strictly necessary to address public health, safety or environmental threats.

Bass, who is running for reelection on Tuesday against Los Angeles City Council member and fellow Democrat Nithya Raman, framed the legislation as a long-overdue victory for environmental justice in frontline neighborhoods that have historically borne the brunt of urban drilling…

“For too long, communities throughout Los Angeles have lived with the impacts of oil and gas drilling in their neighborhoods, leading to significant health conditions,” Bass said in a press release on Thursday, the day she signed the ban. “Signing this ordinance is another important step toward phasing out oil and gas drilling in Los Angeles once and for all.”

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Canadian Heritage’s latest disclosure lists $10.9 million in anti-racism program grants

Canadian Heritage’s newest quarterly disclosure lists 191 agreements worth $10.9 million under its Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program, including a $215,000 agreement with the Quebec newspaper cooperative that publishes Le Soleil and Le Droit for a children’s news project against racism, a Rebel News review of the federal grants disclosure has found.

The agreements, with start dates between April 15 and October 24 and most of them from August on, sit in the proactive disclosure data on open.canada.ca as 53 “Projects” worth $8.1 million and 138 “Events” worth $2.8 million. The figures are multi-year agreement values, not payments, and the record says the start date “is based on the approval date.”

Rebel News reported on October 16 on a separate batch of 78 anti-hate projects worth $11 million that started in April.

The media recipient is the Coopérative nationale de l’information indépendante, the cooperative that owns six regional dailies, including Le Soleil and Le Droit, taken over in what Le Soleil has called “le sauvetage des six journaux en 2019”. Its 19-month agreement, from September 1 to March 31, 2028, is titled “Les As de l’info : informer et accompagner les enfants pour lutter contre le racisme”.

Les As de l’info describes itself as “A French-language news site that explains current events in simple terms for children aged 8 to 12.”

Other project titles include “Youth Belonging in Action,” $133,000 to Moms Against Racism (Canada) of Victoria, a group its founder Kerry Cavers has said she began as a Facebook group in 2020; “Regenerative Equity Governance in Practice,” $130,000 to the Future Arts Network Society of Vancouver; “Community Inclusion and Wellbeing Project,” $176,000 to the Moose Jaw & District Chamber of Commerce; and $139,000 to the Yukon Human Rights Commission for “Unmasking Systemic Barriers: An Intersectional Analysis of Race-Based”, a title the record cuts off.

In a briefing document prepared for its deputy minister’s June 1 appearance before the public accounts committee, the department said that, as announced in Budget 2025, it “will implement savings of $93.1 million by 2028-29”, with about 120 fewer indeterminate employees across the department.

The same document says the program as a whole approved $35.2 million in 2024-25. The program’s current anti-racism call for applications is open until November 12.

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Carney calls the Indian Act racist in French, then backs away from scrapping it in English

On Tuesday’s live stream, Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle discussed Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew’s call to abolish the Indian Act and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s shifting answer on whether Ottawa will do it.

Kinew raised the issue on Monday at a meeting in Ottawa of first ministers and First Nations leaders. He held up his own status card, which identifies him as “an Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act.”

“I’m not sure if that lines up with your vision of Canada, that we still have a race-based form of identification in this country, but this is a reality,” Kinew said. “I think it’s time to abolish the Indian Act, get rid of the Indian Act, move past the Indian Act.”

He said the change “needs to be done with First Nations people and First Nations governments,” and that his proposal got an “open-minded reception” from other leaders in the closed-door meeting.

The Indian Act, first passed in 1876, still governs who has Indian status, how reserve land is managed and how band governments operate. Reserve land is held by the Crown for the use of the band, so most First Nations people living on reserve cannot own their homes or land outright.

On Monday, Carney said he was “very open to” abolishing or modernizing the Act, CFJC reported. Speaking in French, he called it a racist law, according to The Globe and Mail.

On Tuesday, a reporter noted that critics say the government “consults to death” and asked Carney why he was comfortable saying he wanted to abolish the Act without consulting First Nations communities. “That is exactly what I did not say,” Carney replied.

He said the issues are “deep, complex, sensitive” and that any reform, including potential abolition, would need a “co-developed” process, which the federal government is open to. “That’s very different than saying, I, we are going to do X. We are not saying that at all,” he said.

Previous attempts to scrap the Act have failed. Pierre Trudeau’s government proposed abolishing it in its 1969 White Paper, then withdrew the plan after strong opposition from First Nations leaders.

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Investigation Launched Into Federal Judge Who Hurled Racial Insults at Lawyer Over His “White Mediocrity” – Said He Was Intimidated by “Black Excellence”

A Texas-based federal judge’s abuse and racial insults toward a lawyer have sparked a judicial investigation.

A lawyer filed a misconduct complaint against US District Judge Ada Brown, a Trump appointee, for berating him with racial insults during an April 2026 hearing in Dallas.

Bloomberg Law reviewed court transcripts that revealed Judge Brown directed shockingly abusive racial insults toward attorney Ezra Young.

Ezra Young represented a black female professor who was suing over the denial of tenure.

During the hearing, Judge Brown, a black and Native American woman, berated Young and repeatedly referred to him as a white man even though he is Latino.

“I think what’s happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?,” Brown said, according to the transcript obtained by Bloomberg Law. “You should write that down. I mean, you — I’m — you look like a White man, right?”

“I’m not White, Your Honor,” Young replied, explaining that he is Latino.

“Well, you are White-presenting; is that fair to say?” Judge Brown said.

Young told the judge that he is a “fair-skinned” Latino. Judge Brown insisted that Young had “White privilege.”

“You’re the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York,” Judge Brown later said, according to Bloomberg.

Ezra Young said he believes Judge Brown could be suffering from a mental health condition. Judge Brown was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Judge Brown responded to Ezra Young’s complaint in a 76-page response and defended her racial attacks.

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Racist? UK Charities Are Paying White People A Third Less Than Ethnics

Oxfam paid its white staff a median of 33% less than colleagues who described themselves as black or a person of colour last year, according to the charity’s own annual report. Cancer Research UK and the British Red Cross reported similar negative ethnicity pay gaps in favour of ethnic minority staff.

The figures, drawn from the organisations’ voluntary disclosures, have prompted questions about how “positive action” provisions in the Equality Act 2010 are being applied in practice. Critics argue the measures, intended to address under-representation, are producing outcomes that disadvantage white employees in recruitment, promotion and pay.

Oxfam’s ethnicity pay gap stood at -33.0% on the median and -12.9% on the mean, based on data from 69.2% of staff who shared their ethnicity. Black or people of colour (BPOC) staff made up 10.5% of the workforce. The median gap had been -10.4% the previous year.

The charity noted that a higher proportion of staff in the top two pay quartiles disclosed their ethnicity, and that lower overall numbers of BPOC colleagues “may be driving a skew in the pay gap.” It stated the figures “cannot be seen as conclusive” but were “suggestive of lower average pay at the charity for white workers.”

A spokesman for Oxfam said the organisation was “committed to fair, inclusive recruitment practices that value diversity and ensure everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We do not operate a policy of positive discrimination,” adding that the “reported ethnicity pay gap is not evidence of unequal pay for the same work.”

Cancer Research UK reported that white staff were paid 7.6% less on average in 2025. The charity has recorded a negative gap in favour of ethnic minority employees since 2020, though it said the figure is now “the closest to being neutral it has ever been.”

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Tribunal Watch: Quebec tribunal upholds federally funded job ad that excluded white applicants, calls complainant’s position “ideological”

A Quebec Human Rights Tribunal judge has dismissed a complaint against a bird conservation group whose federally funded job posting was open only to applicants aged 30 or under who identify as Indigenous, black or a person of colour.

Judge Magali Lewis ruled that the posting was discriminatory on its face, but that it was not discriminatory under Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms because it came from a government “ameliorative” program. She also ruled that the complainant, Stéphanie Salagan, never really intended to apply and had no standing to sue. The decision, 2026 QCTDP 7, was issued March 12, 2026.

In October 2021, Regroupement QuébecOiseaux advertised a 20-week, part-time project officer job promoting Nature Canada’s “Bird Friendly City” certification. The job paid $17.50 an hour for 28 hours a week. The ad said that, because the funding program aimed to promote diversity, the position was open only to people 30 and under who identify as Indigenous, black or people of colour.

(Quotes from the decision are translated from French.)

According to the decision, QuébecOiseaux had 12 employees at the time: 11 white women and one biologist of South American origin.

The money came through a chain of federal programs. Employment and Social Development Canada runs the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy. Under it, Parks Canada signed a contribution agreement with Nature Canada in June 2021. Nature Canada then launched a wage subsidy program called Work to Grow and encouraged QuébecOiseaux to apply.

The approval email from Nature Canada dictated the sentence restricting the job by race. The tribunal found that the age limit came from the Parks Canada agreement.

Nature Canada executive director Emily McMillan testified that the decision rested partly on her own observation over 30 years that audiences at environmental conferences are often entirely white, and partly on a study Nature Canada sponsored.

The program hired 351 young people, according to Nature Canada’s final report. Of those, 81 were Indigenous and 214 were black or people of colour, which leaves 56 who were neither.

McMillan testified that Nature Canada sometimes waived the eligibility criteria when employers told it they weren’t getting applications from youth facing barriers. Nature Canada removed the race requirement from the program in June 2023. McMillan testified that the change was a response to Salagan’s complaint, made to avoid similar lawsuits.

Salagan filed her complaint with Quebec’s human rights commission in October 2021, alleging discrimination based on age, race, colour and ethnic origin. The commission sided with her.

It found the ad violated the Charter and proposed that QuébecOiseaux pay her $4,000. It then declined to take the case to the tribunal itself, saying it did not raise public interest concerns, and authorized Salagan to sue on her own. She represented herself and sought $7,500.

Most of the decision deals with whether Salagan really wanted the job.

To answer that, the tribunal examined her university transcript, internship agreement, invoices, T4 slip and student financial aid application. It found that in fall 2021 she was a full-time law student at UQAM with a one-day-a-week internship, and that she was president of an animal rights committee. She was also teaching green-wall construction at a Laval horticulture centre at $80 an hour, which the tribunal noted is more than four and a half times what QuébecOiseaux was offering.

It concluded that “all of these elements make it implausible that she really wanted to apply.”

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