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Church of England say they are finally getting their act together on race

Tamil-Canadian groups lobbied for the bill’s passage, but other Sri Lankans lobbied against it, including Anura Ferdinand of the Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition. Ferdinand said that in 2019 his community met 71 MPPs who, he said, had no idea there is another side to the story here.” Ferdinand said the bill makes no mention of Sinhalese or other ethnic groups harmed in Sri Lanka during the war, which has not been called a genocide by the United Nations or Canada. Ramila Senanayake, fro...

How Critical Race Theory Captured the Church Giles Udy, Unherd, April 21, 2021 “I’m ashamed of our history and I’m ashamed of our failure. There is no doubt when we look at our own Church that we are still deeply institutionally racist.” This was Archbishop Justin Welby’s shocking confession last year at the General Synod. He swore to eradicate racism and set up a task force to investigate further. The Archbishop’s distress was echoed on Panorama this week, as real experiences of...

Date Time Gender in geosciences: leaky pipeline needs fixing Hacking through the jungle. An uphill battle. Being the Road Runner but on an ice-skating rink. These are just some of the ways a woman’s career path in geosciences is described by those working in the field. The responses are part of a new University of South Australia research project that is looking at the power of perception to understand the lack of gender diversity in geosciences. According to UniSA geoscientist Associate Prof...