Linguist Tony Thorne suggests that Black Americans started using the term in the 1940s to “mean becoming woken up or sensitized to issues of justice.” From this, wokeness initially focused on raising ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a critic of "sick and disgusting woke culture," stages her cabaret act at the State of the Union address on Feb. 7. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) Across the ...

What is woke? What is anti-woke? Nobody knows for sure, but we are spending an increasing amount of time trying to figure it out. Società Sportiva Lazio, a football club in Italy’s Serie A, recently ...

The expression “stay woke” started out as an affirmation for African Americans. In the past decade it has been used by some Republicans — and some Democrats — as a pejorative for people thought to be ...

Re: Bell: Kenney government wants hands off old John A. The woke culture seems to be spreading like black mould across the Canadian landscape. History of any sorts cannot be erased. I wonder how long ...

Todd Hirsch is a former Calgary-based chief economist of ATB Financial and the author of The Boiling Frog Dilemma: Saving Canada from Economic Decline. There’s been endless commentary on the swelling ...

What is “woke” anyway? That word puzzled enough Canadians to top Crossword Solver’s list of top 10 most searched-for definitions in Canada this year. Crossword Solver’s analysts ranked the top 10 ...

One of the most revered days in the Canadian calendar was caught up in controversy this week as a debate raged over the appropriateness of playing an Arabic song and invoking the transatlantic slave ...

Middle managers might be using “wokeness” to climb the ladder at work and keep their jobs during tough times, according to a new paper. “We suggest that going woke is an emergent strategy that is ...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre isn’t just promising to spend more money on Canada’s military, he’s promising to change the culture.

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