EXCLUSIVE: Ontario spent millions embedding woke ideology into schools
Documents detail a province-wide rollout of American critical race scholarship in schools, implemented through funding, consultants, and system-wide mandates.
Freedom of information records obtained by Juno News show the Ontario Ministry of Education led a years-long effort to embed a radical approach originating among U.S. critical race academics to education across the province, funding its expansion, training educators, and integrating it into classroom practice. Disclosure reveals how the ministry directed millions of dollars to transform education, at the cost of education itself.
According to the documents, American ideology was embedded in schools by U.S. scholar Nicole West-Burns, who brought Gloria Ladson-Billings’ Culturally Relevant Pedagogy north of the border to the University of Toronto’s OISE in 2007–2008.
Working through the Centre for Urban Schooling, she adapted the approach to the Canadian context, blending race consciousness with critical consciousness to teach students to view the world through an oppressor/oppressed lens.
