1/ Thread: Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s ex Islamophobia czar just delivered this polished keynote to educators.

It looks professional, data-heavy, and reasonable -- until you look more closely.

Keynote by Elghawaby at Harmony Movement’s 2026 Educators Anti-Racism Conference. Harmony Movement is a Toronto-based non-profit that runs anti-racism workshops in schools across Canada.


2/ The deck look great: StatsCan hate crime numbers, official government definitions, documented incidents.

But the framing it promotes, and the activist networks behind it, appear to be centered on narrative building more than protecting students.

1/ FOI documents show an Ontario school board @kprschools trained principals to “speak back” to “anti-woke resistance” from families, colleagues, and the public.

The training is part of a province-wide rollout of Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy (CRRP), backed by millions in taxpayer funding.

Here’s what I found. 2/ The training begins with an "Ancestral Land Acknowledgement" for "justice and liberation" of "African ancestors."

1/ FOI records show the Ontario Ministry of Education ran a years-long operation to embed Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy (CRRP) province-wide, an approach rooted in American Critical Race Theory and Paulo Freire’s Marxist “critical consciousness.”

It's undeniable that the politicization of the education system was a top-down ideological project directed by the Ministry of Education.
junonews.com/p/exclusive-on… 2/ The architect heading the charge was U.S. scholar Nicole West-Burns.

She imported Gloria Ladson-Billings’ Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to U of T’s OISE in 2007–2008, adapted it for Canada (sort of), and blended race consciousness with critical consciousness to teach students to see the world through an oppressor/oppressed lens.

In 2013 the Ministry invited her and Jeff Kugler to lead a provincial pilot. They trained more than 39 school boards, including most of the province.

1/ The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board @HWDSB refused to release a $70k taxpayer funded anti-Palestinian racism training session, claiming disclosure would pose a “danger to safety or health.”

Juno News obtained the full transcript. A thread.


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1/ Canadian public service employees, which includes @csiscanada, are required to engage in racial discrimination as standard practice, according to their own training materials.

Let's take a look at examples taken from their Advancing the Conversation on Systemic Racism course, current as of January 2026. 2/ CSIS employees are expected to believe that "we are all sitting on an iceberg that maintains a racist system."

They're trained that hiring people on the basis of being "fit" for the job is indicative of "White fragility."

1/ Students in Grade 7 are learning to write their own land acknowledgements in Ontario. The “Indigenous Teachings & Land Acknowledgements” unit walks students through lessons on Indigenous culture, beliefs, and environmental teachings before culminating in a final land acknowledgement project.

@HWDSB


2/ The unit contains 6 cultural, spiritual, and environmental activities, and two land acknowledgement finals sections.

1/ In Canada, civil servants must take DEI training through the School of Public Service. The following is leadership training on systemic racism and racial discrimination.
Source: Canada School of Public Service — shared under CC BY-NC 2.0


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You gave $300,000 to Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups to teach kids about "Islamophobia." Two men who were directly identified as affiliated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood by a lengthy a CRA terrorism financing audit thanked you for it.

https://twitter.com/sflecce/status/2030334764624777521

macnet.ca/2021/bulletin-…

1/ This has to be the strangest discovery yet in the last 10 months of collecting invoices from school boards. An Indigenous artist was paid over $570k in just over two years for a various things including a cultural camp, murals, language classes, books, and ceremonies. The board -- @DPCDSBSchools -- is currently under provincial supervision for financial mismanagement. 2/ The numerous invoices included $97,850 for a culture camp, $50,500 for murals, $45,000 for presentations, $40K for a summer camp, $40K for camp operations, and $27,120 to teach the Anishinaabemowin language (over $200/hr incl. resources).

Murdoch had said in an interview in 2023 that he’d never taken government money for his camp — but invoices from the DPCSB appeared in the FOI disclosure weeks later.

Here's a spreadsheet compilation of all the invoices: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

1/ The @HWDSB is training very young children to view the world through the lens of intersectional social justice ideology. Here we have a teacher resource guiding children to draw the "Flower of Power" to learn how to place themselves in the privilege / oppression hierarchy.

2/ FOI revealed that schools across the board have been training and delivering these Learn.Disrupt.Rebuild. modules for some time. In this case, we have Lake Avenue Elementary School

1/ The @hwdsb is currently under scrutiny by Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner following its refusal to disclose mandatory anti-Palestinian racism training. The board said disclosure would pose a “danger to safety or health.”
I’ve obtained 15 photos of the video delivered to over 8,000 teachers in November 2024.


2/ A community member who has asked to remain anonymous has shared these images with me, as well as a pile of affidavits, letters, and exhibits from the appeal which is currently in adjudication.

1/ This story is wild. Fletcher’s Meadow Secondary School in Brampton Ontario has all but erased the existence of Israel in a "Christmas in Palestine" display.

A community member sent me photographs of elements of the display and I'm posting them all there in this thread. 2/ Teacher and department head Fadi Mehanna created the display which the @PeelSchools has confirmed has now been removed.

Mehanna has previously been involved in Palestine activism. I believe he also runs idpol "affinity groups."

1/ This legal challenge is wild. The school board is refusing to engage in discussion about the concerns some parents have about land acknowledgements.

And so, one parent decided to file a charter rights challenge on the basis that land acknowledgements are racist and imposing them violate his right to freedom of conscience.

https://x.com/realfinkledusty/status/1994067597726491078

2/ After objecting to reciting land acknowledgments at the start of his school council meetings, he was referred to the principal... this is what she said:

“conversations or actions that question the validity of equity-focused initiatives – including those designed to support historically and currently marginalized groups – risk undermining the dignity of members of our community. The WRDSB’s commitment to equity and human rights means that certain topics, particularly those that diminish or delegitimize the experiences of equity-deserving groups must be approached with care and in alignment with the Ontario Human Rights Code”

No discussion allowed, according to the WRDSB.