Certain racialized groups face systemic and intersectional barriers and prejudices that disproportionally impact them i.e. anti-black racism
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Hamilton, Six Nations organizations marking National Day of Truth and Reconciliation all week
Aura Carreño Rosas · CBC News · Posted: Sep 26, 2022
Friday marks the second National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, a day honouring "the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities."
The day was one of the…
Published September 29, 2022
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City of Guelph to honour National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: 8 ways for individuals to take action
Guelph Mercury Friday, September 23, 2022
The City of Guelph is encouraging employees and the community to reflect on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 and to take an active part in the reconciliation process.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) 95…
Published September 29, 2022
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Iranians in Toronto protest after young woman dies in police custody in Iran
Griffin Jaeger · CBC News · Posted: Sep 20, 2022
Members of the Iranian community in Toronto are taking a stand against what they say is the world's silence following the death of a 22-year-old woman in Iran after she was detained by the morality police.
Mahsa Amini was arrested…
Published September 21, 2022
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Ontario has promised to put immigrant nurses to work faster. That change is long overdue
Yamaan Alsumadi · CBC News · Posted: Sep 20, 2022
I'm a fourth-year nursing student studying at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., and I'm in a classroom filled with people who are perfectly qualified to help out with Ontario's health-care shortage.
Instead, they're…
Published September 20, 2022
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Did Canada use facial-recognition software to strip two refugees of their status? A court wants better answers
Nicholas Keung The Star Mon., Sept. 19, 2022
Canadian authorities can’t just brush off allegations that they are using facial-recognition software to discredit asylum-seekers, a court has ruled.
The decision by the Federal Court comes in a case that has cast a spotlight on the…
Published September 20, 2022
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Canadians who aren't white say border agents discriminate against them as they return home
Joanne Roberts · CBC News · Posted: Sep 16, 2022
Canadians who aren't white say they're discriminated against at the Canadian border, and they believe it's because of their race.
A 33-year-old woman from Winnipeg said she's gone through a full range of experiences at the border…
Published September 16, 2022
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Representation matters: Black youth talk about the power of connection and community
CBC Communications · Posted: Sep 14, 2022
There was a sense of comfort, empowerment, and belonging for the 400 Black youth who recently gathered in Halifax during the National Black Canadians Summit.
As author and educator Moashella Shortte said: "There is joy in the coming…
Published September 15, 2022
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Canada agrees to resettle Afghans held in UAE facility, sources say
Alexander Cornwell and Jonathan Landay Reuters September 8th 2022
Canada will accept some 1,000 Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and have been held for months in a makeshift refugee centre in the United Arab Emirates awaiting resettlement to the United…
Published September 12, 2022
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Door opens to Chatham-Kent’s agricultural workers
Oct 19, 2021 - There has been broad praise for changes to Canada’s immigration policy announced earlier this year that provide a path to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers – including agricultural workers.
In Chatham-Kent, workers the Caribbean, Latin America and…
Published October 19, 2021
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Canada needs to do better for Black refugees and immigrants
Black refugees from Africa still face barriers to integration and long processing times.
In 1951, Canada did not sign the newly adopted UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. It feared the United Nations treaty would limit its ability to deport communists and others…
Published August 6, 2021