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For those unaware, the Vancouver Sun and Gordon Clark (allegedly) have found themselves in some hot water for publishing this ignorant op-ed.

Link to an archived version of the removed content:

Mark Hecht: Ethnic diversity harms a country's social trust, economic well-being, argues professor
OPINION: Canada should say goodbye to diversity, tolerance and inclusion to rebuild trust in one another and start accepting a new norm for immigration policy — compatibility, cohesion and social trust.

MARK HECHT Updated: September 6, 2019

https://web.archive.org/web/201909070219...ust-economic-well-being-argues-professor

Background on how it was (somehow) published:

Author Of Anti-Immigrant Vancouver Sun Op-ed Explains How It Got Published
Mark Hecht says he was inspired to submit to the Sun because of similar writings on diversity by columnist Douglas Todd
ARTICLE BY JONATHAN GOLDSBIE SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

On Friday evening, the Vancouver Sun published an opinion piece by Mark Hecht, a geography instructor at Calgary’s Mount Royal University. The column decried “the dogma of diversity, tolerance, and inclusion” and praised the virtues of homogeneity and exclusion. It cited research by the anti-Muslim Gatestone Institute...

Hecht, who self-published a 2016 book on “Why Europeans Naturally Invaded The New World,” tells Canadaland in a phone interview that he sent the piece to Gordon Clark, the Sun‘s editorial page editor, who told him it was “interesting.” He says he hasn’t heard anything from the paper or its editors beyond that, not even when they decided to retract it....

Hecht says he first offered his piece to the National Post, but got no response. He says he then came across a column touching on similar subjects by the Sun‘s Douglas Todd, which made him believe that that paper might be more receptive to it...

https://www.canadalandshow.com/mark-hecht-explains-how-vancouver-sun-oped-got-published/