The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) will stop using the word "chief" in job titles, citing respect for Indigenous communities. For example, the board's chief of social work will now be the manager of social work. "We're very happy that the change was made," said Duke Redbird, the TDSB's curator of Indigenous arts and culture. "The word chief has been used in a pejorative way to identify any Indigenous person," he said, adding calling someone chief is often deployed as a form of micro-aggression. And though the word has been turned into an occasional racial epithet, "chief" has no actual connection to Indigenous culture or language.

Source: CBC News October 11, 2017 19:22 UTC