racialized communities

The Conservative MP leading outreach efforts for leader Erin O'Toole says a six-year-old promise to create a 'barbaric cultural practices' hotline still hangs over the party's attempts to rebuild relationships with racialized communities today, November 15, 2021.

The election is over — and not much has changed. "There is no real triumph to be found, but at least we’re still here to fight another day," writes columnist Jesse Firempong.

Umair Muhammad now works to introduce the wonders of nature to those who might not easily see it.

If people don’t see themselves in green spaces, they will not come. Nor will they come if they don’t feel safe, write researchers Ambika Tenneti and Jacqueline L. Scott.

​​​​​​​Racism is at the core of the extractive, exploitative and inequitable economic system we live under — a system that, if unchanged, is incompatible with a just transition to a clean energy future, writes Janelle Lapointe.

A new tool that measures the environmental quality of any urban street in Canada — and maps it out in colour — illustrates vividly the many neighbourhoods in the country that have poor environment scores, neighbourhoods that are often home to racialized communities.

The historical link between the civil rights and environmental justice movements is widely acknowledged, yet these struggles have become increasingly isolated over time, writes Sabaa Khan, the David Suzuki Foundation’s director-general for Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

Adults from racialized communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic should be prioritized for shots in the second stage of the vaccination campaign, says new guidance from Canada's national advisory committee on immunization.

Two Somali-Canadian advocates have created an online resource specifically for racialized survivors of sexual assault, saying a centralized guide is necessary to fill gaps in both the health-care and justice systems that leave marginalized women behind.

Police officers who are guilty of race-based discrimination should face disciplinary measures that include firing, the Ontario Human Rights Commission said on Friday, September 20, 2019, as it released the country's first policy on racial profiling.

Just how Ontario's police should be policed is the topic of a report expected Thursday in which a judge with the province's top court will reveal the results of his comprehensive review of the issue.