racism

Michele Audette feels disappointed when she looks online and sees a barrage of violent threats towards Indigenous women.

Justin Trudeau acknowledged his own past history of unconscious racism during a celebration on Monday, February 24, 2020, of Black History Month.

The Quebec City mosque shooter entered a Muslim prayer space on Jan. 29, 2017, armed with two guns, and murdered six men — but there was no evidence he was motivated by deep-seated racism, the man's lawyer argued on Monday, January 27, 2020, at the Court of Appeal.

Far-right group La Meute was once seen as a growing threat in Quebec, with members marching by the hundreds through city streets against what they claimed was the creeping "Islamization" of society.

The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman's killer, but the school says doing so would go against its principles.

A Green party candidate running in Barrie, Ont., has admitted in a Facebook post to previously wearing "a costume" that "perpetuates racist attitudes."

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

Imagine if the genocide of Indigenous nations, broken treaties, boil-water advisories, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, police brutality, torture complicity, security certificates, no-fly lists and indefinite detention were treated equally as scandalous as Trudeau in blackface.

Racist letters about Indigenous Peoples have finally been removed from Sen. Lynn Beyak's website — but only because Senate officials erased them after Beyak refused to do so herself.

Quebec's human rights commission is calling on the provincial government to come up with a plan to fight racism and discrimination in the wake of a new report on abuse against minorities.

Brownface is a way of exaggerating characteristics that imply brown people don’t belong in this country.

Justin Trudeau pushed aside on Friday, September 20, 2019, global mockery of his decisions years ago to dress in blackface, saying he's focused on apologizing to Canadians — including his rival, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

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. 

"I shouldn't have done that. I should have known better, but I didn't, and I'm really sorry," Trudeau said Wednesday about the report that broke in Time magazine.

A Friday, September 6, 2019, ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal about Canada's treatment of Indigenous children demands a full investigation of the federal Indigenous-affairs department, says child-welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock.