Meanwhile there was a period of time in Canada where to have a chance at funding from federally funded programs, regardless of how absurd or tenuous the relationship to the work, one had to prominently shoehorn “climate change” and “equity” into every grant proposal.

Even provinces and municipalities followed suit. Non-profit community org looking to install some signage and a trash receptacle at the start of a walking trail? Please explain in 300-500 words how this advances the causes of DEI. Studying the genome of a viral pathogen impacting raspberry farmers? Explain how the DNA extraction kits, centrifuge, hot water bath, and pipette tips you’re requesting funding for relate to challenges arising from our changing climate.

It is just the pendulum swinging all the way to the other side, aka over-correction...

Should be criminal.

Has there ever been an administration that wasn't tone deaf to the other side?

"admin" is what we call a regime that works properly. This one doesn't, so it's a "regime".

That's just "Twitter brain" at this point, right? Hard to imagine anyone leftish still being there.