10 Keys to Everyday Anti-Racism
The founders of a new organization, the AntiRacist Table, suggest tools you can use to work against prejudice and inequality.
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Religion or belief discrimination
What is religion or belief discrimination?
This is when you are treated differently because of your religion or belief, or lack of religion or belief,...
What Does A Workplace That Prioritizes, Supports And Centers Black Women...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson explored the idea of an American racial caste system in her new book Caste. Wilkerson indicated that within the...
The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than...
The summer I was nine, my teenage cousin Sana came from England to visit my family in Oshawa. He was tall, handsome and obnoxious,...
How to curb anti-Black racism in Canadian schools
Ontario’s Minister of Education announced last summer that academic streaming would be phased out of the province’s schools in Grade 9. Streaming refers to...
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Through work to bring materials from Women’s Studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant that they...
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I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White
These Labels were Made Up to Divide us. I am not black, you are not white. Drop the labels.
How corporate Canada is addressing anti-Black racism 8 months after protests
Eight months after corporate Canada committed itself to address systemic racism within its workplaces and power structures, those who are committed to holding businesses...
The Pervasive Reality of Anti-Black Racism in Canada
While Canadians often believe that our country is a model when it comes to inclusion, the hard truth is we have a long way...
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Pressuring pop culture creators can help fight racism in America
Today, the American political and social landscape seem fractured to a greater extent than at any time in recent memory. Many wonder what can...
The Fatal Shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile: The Daily...
Trevor reacts the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two African-American men shot by police, and calls on law enforcement to address systemic...
Halifax is no stranger to anti-Asian sentiment
I have no idea if physical places can possess memories, but if such a thing is possible, I know a place where the past...
Thunder Bay hospital asks patients if they wish to self-identify in...
The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) has started asking patients whether they want to self-identify as Indigenous.
A news release issued Wednesday,...
Why COVID-19 Is Even More Dangerous For Black Women
At the beginning of April, in need of a prescription refill, I took the subway to a drugstore in my Toronto neighbourhood where I...
How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time
Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on Black Americans who have committed the crimes of ... eating, walking or...
