racism

The vast majority of non-Indigenous Quebecers recognize that First Nations members in the province are subject to racism or discrimination, survey results released on Wednesday, August 12, 2020, suggest.

The party said it "will not provide a platform to normalize racism and discrimination," following comments by Dylan Perceval-Maxwell that accused his opponent of being "angry that a white person came up with an idea."

A former judge investigating allegations of racism towards Indigenous people in British Columbia's health-care system is calling on patients, families, doctors and nurses to come forward with their stories.

Charges were dropped against a prominent northern Alberta First Nations chief on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, as it was revealed that one of the officers involved in his violent arrest had been charged in an off-duty assault seven months earlier.

Meryam Haddad says that if the Green Party truly respects its members, it must discipline Dylan Perceval-Maxwell for a policy he proposed during Tuesday’s leadership debate that she had called out as racist and offensive, as well as for his reaction afterward that she believes made things worse.

Meryam Haddad said fellow contender Dylan Perceval-Maxwell proposed racist, offensive policy during the first Green Party debate Tuesday.

Black parents have always dealt with the added burden of talking to their children about racism but some are now struggling with whether to broach the topic sooner, says the founder of a parenting group.

"Perhaps I’m a wannabe anthropologist,” Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet told reporters in French on Parliament Hill.

The only way to overcome racism in Canada's policing agencies is to impose systemic change and a zero-tolerance policy aimed at eliminating the excessive use of force, the head of the country's largest Indigenous organization said on Monday, June 15, 2020.

A group supporting migrant workers held a virtual rally on Sunday, June 14, 2020, that called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and MPs to immediately extend full immigration status for all non-permanent residents.

Opponents of Quebec's controversial secularism law vowed on Sunday, June 14, 2020, to keep up the fight to see it rescinded ahead of the first anniversary of its passing.

Canada's public safety minister says the government will be paying close attention to the independent inquiry into allegations of racism and police brutality brought forward by a First Nations chief, while another minister called the chief's account "deeply troubling."

Thousands hit Montreal streets again on Sunday, June 7, 2020, to speak out in turn against racism, systemic discrimination and police brutality, following other Canadian communities that held marches this weekend.

B.C. Premier John Horgan is calling on the federal government to lead an anti-racism program, saying fighting racism needs a nationwide plan to ensure the participation and support of Canadians.

Singh invoked the memories of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, whose family has raised concerns about police involvement in her death in Toronto in May, and Stewart Kevin Andrews, an Indigenous man killed by police in Winnipeg in April, to make a point about how Black and Indigenous people have suffered violence or death at the hands of Canadian police.