(LifeSiteNews) — Memorial University — the only university in Newfoundland and Labrador — is advertising a number of academic job postings for tenured professor positions. There is a stipulation, however: No straight white men need apply.

Independent journalist Chris Brunet noted the advertised postings on X on April 20:

This week the only university in Newfoundland, @MemorialU, posted 5 tenured professor openings:

– AI-driven Navigation
– Computational Biochemistry
– Genomic Mapping
– Indigenous Knowledge
– Community Health and Substance Use

Each job stipulates that no white men may apply. pic.twitter.com/RgywrF95qp

— Chris Brunet (@chrisbrunet) April 20, 2026

The five postings include “AI-Driven Navigation,” “Computational Biochemistry,” Genomic Mapping,” “Indigenous Knowledge,” and “Community Health and Substance Use” — and all five postings are limited to applications from “women; 2SLGBTQIA+ people; Indigenous peoples; racialized persons; and persons with disabilities.”

“Memorial University, located in the provincial capital of St. John’s, was founded as a ‘living memorial’ to the outsized number of Newfoundland men killed in the First World War,” Tristin Hopper noted at the National Post. “Job postings for the university make note of this, reminding applicants that the school exists so that their ‘cause and sacrifice might not be forgotten.’”

Now, however, many of the descendants of those men would not qualify for the university founded in their honor. “One percent of the male population of Newfoundland was killed in the Great War,” former Alberta premier Jason Kenney noted on X. “Memorial University was given its name to be a living, permanent memorial to their sacrifice. None of those men, or those who served with them, would now be eligible to teach at the university named in honour of their sacrifice.”

Limiting an academic position in Indigenous studies to, say, someone of Indigenous descent is defensible (although it’s worth noting that it wouldn’t work the other way around — you couldn’t restrict a position on European history to someone of European descent). But to specifically exclude straight white men from professorial slots in the hard sciences is clearly indefensible, not to mention obviously racist.

This sort of thing is happening more often these days. In an advertisement posted to its website on February 18, the University of Toronto announced that it was hiring an assistant professor in computational biology and data science – but there are just a few stipulations.

Eligibility for the position was limited to candidates “who identify as members of one or more federally designated groups: women and gender minorities (those who identify as women, trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender fluid, based on the gender identity that best describes the applicants at the current time), racialized persons/visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities.”

In other words: No straight white men need apply.

In 2024, the University of Waterloo put out a similar advertisement, seeking applications for a Canada research chair position — but only applicants who were “women, transgender, gender-fluid, non-binary, or Two-spirit.”

Again: No straight white men need apply. The only way a straight white man could get one of these jobs is by identifying as non-binary or claiming to be “gender fluid,” which is a … ah … rather flexible identity, to say the least.

Indeed, as Hopper noted in the National Post, a 2025 study by the Aristotle Foundation “examined 489 job postings issued by 10 Canadian universities and found just 12 that didn’t contain some element saying that candidates would be prioritized based on their race, gender or sexual identity.” This, Hopper stated, is likely due to federal government DEI requirements, which are often attached to federal government grants.

“As per the regularly updated identity quotas maintained on the Canada Research Chair website, at least 22.9 percent of all academic positions funded by the program must be filled by ‘racialized’ individuals, 4.9 percent by Indigenous people, 7.5 percent by people with disabilities and 50.9 percent by either women or trans people,” Hopper noted.

If you’re wondering why the Canadian establishment is filled with people who believe things that every previous generation of Canadians would have thought objectively insane, there’s one of your answers.