A Tale of Two Teachers in Canada’s ‘Woke’ Education System

Commentary A poster in a teacher’s classroom at a high school in Surrey, B.C., suggests society is too moralistic about sex work, the quote coming from an avowed Satanist. National Post writer Jamie Sarkonak described the classroom in this way: “The classroom … is coated with social justice posters: ones that decry colonialism, ones that inflame racial politics and one that even likens prostitution to regular physical labour.” This teacher drapes herself in a pride flag and speaks openly of her pansexuality as well as her subscription to social justice and DEI. In March, the teacher appeared on CTV after being roundly criticized on X by an Ottawa teacher, Chanel Pfahl, who was chased out of the profession a few years ago for questioning critical race theory. The Surrey teacher said that Pfahl “seems to be making a lot of assumptions that were simply based on misinformation, lies, and in fact, puts myself and other teachers and students and my community in danger.” She also argued she was teaching about “critical thinking” and creating “empowered citizens that can speak up for themselves.” A Canadian flag hangs forlornly in her classroom, atop it is scrawled, “No pride in genocide.”...