Race

One-quarter of front line employees surveyed at Canada's border agency said they had directly witnessed a colleague discriminate against a traveller in the previous two years.

In every country across the world, women are disproportionately affected by disasters — and not just by a little, write Victoria Ker, Erica Steele, Stephen Patenaude and Brayden Pelham.

Montreal police are to announce a new policy on street checks today, July 8, 2020, months after a damning independent report found evidence of systemic bias linked to race in who they decide to stop.

Ontario Conservative MP Derek Sloan held to his leadership campaign slogan of being "Conservative without apology" and refused on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, to heed the demands of his fellow MPs to apologize for remarks questioning the loyalty of the country's chief public health officer.

As Canada continues to combat the health and economic impacts of COVID-19, women's rights advocates say not enough focus has been placed on the unique and often disproportionate impact the pandemic is having on women.

In an election campaign haunted by the spectres of racism and anti-immigrant backlash, both at home and abroad, the NDP leader has repeatedly been thrust into the role of unofficial spokesperson for racialized Canadians.

Prior to appearing on a televised panel about the Trudeau blackface controversy, a community activist overheard a Global employee making a joke about blackface.

If the country is serious about race, Canadians would connect the dots and ask hard questions of our top leaders: we would ask when they acknowledged racism, if they understand racism — and if they don't, why they believe they are best suited to help all the communities in this country. 

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer should eject colleague Michael Cooper from the Tory caucus over things the MP said about online hate in a parliamentary hearing last week, says a Liberal MP.

A federal housing agency hopes to see every Canadian with an affordable home by 2030 and has offered up a plan full of experiments to make it happen.

Racist taunts recently directed at a black hockey player were unacceptable and should not be tolerated, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said on Wednesday, February 27, 2019.

Some Canadian authors believe students should be able to see their identities reflected in the stories they learn about in English class, and they applauded an Ontario school board for making that a priority.

A fresh look at Canada's ability to defend against possible online threats to the next national election will among a new federal cybersecurity centre's first tasks.

Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta always thought it was wrong that there was no code of conduct for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body that oversees the Oscars, especially when it came to sexual misconduct.

For Jagmeet Singh, Canada’s newly-elected NDP leader, the biggest challenge of the 2019 election may be proving that he can withstand a dog-whistle campaign, says former MP Laurin Liu.