Certain racialized groups face systemic and intersectional barriers and prejudices that disproportionally impact them i.e. anti-black racism
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Race Relations in Canada 2024: A survey of Canadian public opinion and experience
Race relations in Canada 2024: A survey of Canadian public opinion and experience, the third Canada-wide survey conducted by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Environics Institute for Survey Research, documents Canada’s progress on issues related to racialLast updated Jun 4, 2025
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Anti-Asian racism: A guided learning journey
This comprehensive learning tool approaches anti-Asian racism through an intersectional and DEIA lens, highlighting how race, ethnicity, gender, and other social factors shape these experiences.Last updated May 12, 2025
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Tool
OCASI Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression (ARAO) Policy Kit
OCASI has created a set of tools to help organizations in the immigrant and refugee-serving sector take action against racism and oppression.Last updated May 6, 2025
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Other
"Journey To" Meetings - OCASI Youth Advisory Group
In 2023, NewYouth.ca, through OCASI's Youth Advisory Group, held three virtual meetings between newcomer youth and youth workers. In these meetings, newcomer youth discussed their journeys to community, education and employment, and services. Artist Nancy Baltazar illustrated
Last updated Apr 30, 2025
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Canadian Newcomer Youth: Illustrating The Journey
Through a creative workshop, 6 newcomer youth shared their journeys, challenges and successes in Ontario.
This documentary highlights the experiences of newcomer youth from Afghanistan, Iran, Brazil and the Philippines. Each of their stories is unique, but all have had to learn to
Last updated Apr 17, 2025
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Research/Dataset
Ontario Human Rights Commission action plan to address anti-Black racism in education
Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) Launches Action Plan to Tackle Anti-Black Racism in SchoolsLast updated Mar 31, 2025
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Course/Training
Connecting to Careers in Agricultural Technology within Vertical Farming
Connecting to Careers in Agricultural Technology within Vertical Farming is an upskilling program funded by Upskill Canada (powered by Palette Skills) and the Government of Canada. Vertical farming involves various techniques for growing crops in a controlled environment. In
Last updated Mar 18, 2025
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Research/Dataset
Reflections on the first decade: Black Canadian Leadership at the UN Forum for People of African Descent
The Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO) and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) teamed up to facilitate attendance and participation of 24 Black Canadian civil society leaders at the Second Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African DescentLast updated Feb 6, 2025
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Course/Training
CAPE: Cybersafety Awareness for Public Educators
This online, self-paced, free course is intended for nonprofit staff and volunteers who help clients with tech support, cybersafety training, digital skills, online banking/shopping, accessing government resources online, etc.Last updated Jan 8, 2025
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Research/Dataset
International review: Strategies to support ethno-cultural and linguistic diversity for seniors
This review aims to identify and describe promising strategies that have been developed to improve access to programs and services for seniors from diverse communities.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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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
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Black History/Black Futures Month
Ontario Nurses Association January 19, 2023
Each February, ONA celebrates Black History/Black Futures Month and honours Black Canadians whose achievements have shaped who we are today.
In December 1995, the Parliament of Canada officially recognized February as Black History…
Published January 20, 2023
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Canada violating rights of Indigenous peoples, immigration detainees, Human Rights Watch report says
Janice Dickson And Catriona Koenig The Globe and Mail January 13, 2023
A new report from Human Rights Watch criticizes Canada for violating the rights of Indigenous people and immigration detainees, and for not doing enough to address human rights issues abroad.
The latest…
Published January 20, 2023
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Supporting minority languages requires more than token gestures
TVO Veaceslav Balan and Frederick John Packer Jan 9, 2023
In August 2022, Statistics Canada released the latest census data on languages in Canada. According to the data, over 9 million people — or one in four Canadians — have a mother tongue other than English or French (a…
Published January 10, 2023
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Building an anti-racist child-care system in Canada
Policy Options Kaitlin Peters January 9, 2023
In 2021, a Montreal daycare flagged a three-year-old Black child for ”troubling behaviour,” deciding to call Quebec’s youth protection services before having a meeting with the child’s parents. The parents – both of whom had…
Published January 10, 2023