The meaning of the word has been stretched beyond recognition — but it may not matter Addressing the Liberal Party convention in Ottawa last week (new window), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre is vowing to eliminate “woke ideology” from the public service, federal funding for university research and military culture. But what does he mean by “woke,” exactly? The ...

So as the killing-field nation that is America reels from its latest cluster of mass shootings, why aren’t all the woke culture warriors coming to the rescue? What’s extraordinary is the impact that ...

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