I'm going to ask my annual question: Why the fuck aren't they tapping Kelsey Grammer to host the fucking Oscars?

I know he hasn't had a show in a while. I know he's had personal issues. But he's funny, he can sing and dance and he's got a velvety-smooth voice, dammit. I think he'd doe an awesome job.

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The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as 'persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.'

Okay--that makes more and less sense. I mean, they must have their reasons for calling them out specifically. I guess they're covered in other numbers.

I'm not sure what criteria they're using to put what where, but everyone else on that list is geographical, so I thought it odd that you called them out as being treated differently, is all.

That's what I thought was weird, that "Jewish" was stuck in the middle of a list that was otherwise geographical. I get the reasoning behind it, but there are also a bunch of reasons why it doesn't make much sense, and I haven't seen that on any official US stuff since probably 1950, maybe earlier.

I'm guessing there's a lot of politics in that definition.

There is a seperate aboriginal population profile: [link]

Steph, I need to add that to my Netflix queue. I've seen good reviews.

It was good, except the voice actors not being the ones from the series kind of threw me off. Also, Batman did 2 things that I considered to be too morally ambiguous even for him. I'm still mulling those over.

But on the whole, it's pretty good.

Sue, are there ticky boxes, or is it self reported? I note a number of people in Montreal report their ethnicity as Québécois.

Okay--that makes more and less sense. I mean, they must have their reasons for calling them out specifically.

Aboriginal status carries a lot more legal implications in Canada than in the US, so I'm not surprised it's separated out.

I note a number of people in Montreal report their ethnicity as Québécois.

How are you distinguishing between ticky boxes and self-reported (I've never been censed--I know not of how they work). I would imagine a number of but not all Montrealers would report as Quebecois.

Batman did 2 things that I considered to be too morally ambiguous even for him. I'm still mulling those over.

Too morally ambiguous for Batman? In an animated feature? Now I need to bump it up to the top of the queue. Very curious.

Aboriginal status carries a lot more legal implications in Canada than in the US, so I'm not surprised it's separated out.

But you can count them as well as count them as a visible minority, hence my surprise.

I remember an article a few years ago reporting that the number of people who wrote in their ethnicity as "Cajun" in Louisiana had gone down by a huge amount since the previous census. It wasn't until the end of the article that they mentioned that the question was phrased as something like, "What is your ethnicity? (For example: German, Irish, Native American, Cajun)" the first time, and then in the second one, "Cajun" was not in the list of examples, but "French" was, and the number of missing Cajun people was just about equal to the number of new French people.

I'm reading up on that right now, Plei. It looks like it's self reported, but they do give examples and instructions: [link]

The link to the actual questionnaire is a dead end.