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Written by Jérôme on 2025-01-07 at 20:15

[#]Shopify Canadian CEO Tobi now claiming that mass graves of Indigenous kids at residential schools was a hoax

[#]residentialschools

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Written by Jérôme on 2025-01-20 at 15:54

2 weeks after the #Shopify CEO claimed mass grave of Indigenous kids at residential school was a hoax in Canada

The founder and head of the Native Indigenous Entrepreneurship Program at Shopify is leaving the company

(this was a very well known program that got lots of publicity a few years ago)

Sharing his Linkedin post here (it was a public post)

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Written by Jérôme on 2025-01-20 at 15:57

The main website of the program was just put offline by Shopify, it was previously at

https://buildnative.shop/

Entirely removed of the internet.

So as many tech companies are axing their DEI program, #Shopify is quietly axing their Indigenous program just on time for Trump inauguration

I feel like Canadian journalists should look at that

Here's the archive page from 2 days ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250116051448/https://buildnative.shop/

@parismarx @justinling @justinling.bsky.social

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Written by Jérôme on 2025-01-20 at 16:20

On December 2024, #Shopify released this new podcast series

"Welcome to "Build Native", a special miniseries where we speak with four inspiring Indigenous entrepreneurs about building impactful businesses, connecting to their roots, and driving change through commerce."

Hard to believe they would go from promoting it in December, to disbanding in January, unless Shopify decided very quickly to jump on the bandwagon to destroy all DEI initiatives.

https://shopify-masters.simplecast.com/episodes/build-native-a-shopify-miniseries-gKUE1iFu

[#]shopify

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Written by Jérôme on 2025-01-20 at 19:55

[#]Shopify was in such a rush to remove their #Indigenous initiative "Build Native" on the day of Trump inauguration that they nuked the website before even updating the footer on their website.

So the footer of shopify.com leads to a 404

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Written by Jérôme on 2025-01-22 at 04:54

Shopify quietly kills Indigenous entrepreneurship program Build Native

https://betakit.com/shopify-quietly-kills-indigenous-entrepreneurship-program-build-native/

#Shopify #Indigenous

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