Certain racialized groups face systemic and intersectional barriers and prejudices that disproportionally impact them i.e. anti-black racism
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Glossary/Factsheet
Ontario Strengthening Supports to Combat Hate and Create Safer Communities
The new Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant will help faith-based and cultural organizations enhance or implement measures to ensure community spaces remain safe and secure.Last updated Jul 30, 2024
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Course/Training
Solidarity Between Immigrant, Refugee and Indigenous Peoples: A Focus on Gender-Based Violence
The objective is to develop skills to promote solidarity between migrant and Indigenous Peoples in the context of providing settlement services.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Research/Dataset
Using Data to Integrate Antiracism
Using data to integrate anti-racism in the settlement sectorLast updated Jul 29, 2024
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Course/Training
Understanding and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
This FREE online course is developed to help front-line practitioners working with immigrant and refugee communities to better understand issues of gender-based violence (GBV) and develop a supportive response for survivors with intersectional identities.Last updated Jul 24, 2024
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Course/Training
Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in the Immigrant and Refuge-Serving Sector
OCASI is pleased to open registration for the upcoming self-directed online course on Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in the Immigrant and Refuge-Serving Sector.Last updated Dec 19, 2022
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Research/Dataset
Moving beyond the media’s ‘deficit lens’ is essential for racialised peoples to claim belonging. Here’s how they’re doing it
The Conversation November 7, 2022 Sukhmani Khorana
Australia’s mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a “deficit lens”. That’s where these populations – in all their glorious complexity – are framed simply as a “problem” that needs
Last updated Nov 9, 2022
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Research/Dataset
For queer Asians, community means family
By Diamond Yao • October 5, 2022 Xtra Magazine
From coast to coast, queer and trans Asian Canadians are coming out of the shadows and showing the world who they are. With anti-Asian violence on the upswing due to racist misperceptions about the origin and spread of COVID-19, and
Last updated Oct 11, 2022
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Other
When I Write about Race, This Is What I’m Told
Christopher Cheung September 1, 2022 TheTyee.ca
[Editor’s note: Under the White Gaze originally ran as an exclusive Tyee email newsletter last fall. We’re republishing the full series of those essays on our site this month. This essay, the eighth in the series, was originally
Last updated Sep 8, 2022
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Research/Dataset
We need a better understanding of race, 'status' and indigeneity in Canada
Author: Celeste Pedri-Spade, Associate Professor & Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Studies, Queen’s University, OntarioLast updated Aug 10, 2022
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Research/Dataset
Canada needs to get on with tackling racism in concrete ways
Anti-racism is the call of the day in the Global North. In addition to their earlier push to introduce a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) culture, institutions are now also hurriedly producing anti-racism strategies and policies. This is supposed to combat the growing tideLast updated Jul 11, 2022
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How Black students in Quebec are treated differently by the system
Linda Gyulai • Montreal Gazette Feb 21, 2023
Black students in Quebec are overrepresented in special education and behavioural classes, and the researchers behind one of the first studies to gather data on systemic racism in schools in the province are calling on the Quebec…
Published February 28, 2023
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A new face entirely': northern Ontario's growing Black community looks to the future during history month
Erik White · CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023
February is Black history month, but with the Black population of northern Ontario growing rapidly in recent years, the present and the future deserve just as much attention.
More than 5,000 people in the region describe themselves as…
Published February 28, 2023
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Federal government announces details of new Black justice strategy
David Fraser The Canadian Press 16 February 2023
OTTAWA — Canada's long-awaited Black justice strategy will be developed by a committee of community leaders.
The Liberal government committed to creating the strategy in the 2021 election campaign after advocacy groups and the…
Published February 28, 2023
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OCASI Welcomes Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia
February 6, 2023 / Toronto
OCASI – Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants welcomes the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia, the first in Canada.As a human rights advocate, journalist, commentator, educator, and…
Published February 13, 2023
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Why is Canada snubbing internationally trained doctors during a health-care crisis?
The Canadian Press Feb 06, 2023
Authors: Simran Purewal, Research Associate, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University; Evelyn Encalada Grez, Assistant Professor, Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University, and Paola Ardiles, Senior Lecturer, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser…
Published February 9, 2023
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This group is taking steps towards destigmatizing mental health for young Black immigrants
Omar Sherif · CBC News · Posted: Feb 05, 2023
Dawit Mussie sees the challenges that young Black immigrants go through first-hand on a regular basis.
Those struggles, he says, come from lack of safe spaces and young people not feeling like they have someone to talk to about their…
Published February 6, 2023
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When it comes to environmental racism, Ingrid Waldron knows what needs to change
By Patricia Lane & Ingrid Waldron |National Observer | February 6th 2023
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. In honour of Black History Month, today we highlight the climate justice\u2026
Published February 6, 2023
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Why doesn’t Canada treat Afghan refugees like Ukrainians? Because they aren’t ‘white and Christian,’ complaint alleges
Stephanie Levitz The Star Fri., Feb. 3, 2023
OTTAWA – Afghan-Canadians are formally accusing the federal government of discrimination over the difference between immigration programs for Afghans and Ukrainians trying to flee violence in their home countries.
Four men who deployed…
Published February 6, 2023
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Black Canadians worry possible recession would hit anti-racism progress at work: report
Aya Al-Hakim Global News January 30, 2023
Most Black Canadians feel their employers have made progress in addressing anti-Black racism in the workplace but worry a possible recession would stall or even wipe out those gains, a new survey has found.
The study by KPMG found that…
Published January 30, 2023
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This school board just became the 1st in Canada to adopt a strategy to fight Islamophobia
CBC News · Posted: Jan 26, 2023
Six years ago, a school board west of Toronto was making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Security had to be stepped up after racist outbursts at board meetings, a man was filmed tearing pages out of a Qur'an during discussions about religious…
Published January 30, 2023