About National Indigenous Peoples Day
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Who is your oppressor?
Who is your oppressor?
“... we have been taught that ‘benefitting from a system of oppression’ is the same thing as being an oppressor yourself.”
Asam Ahmad / June 3, 2018 /
Does ‘anti-racism’ contribute to racism?
Samir Gandesha / June 21, 2018 /
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Migrant workers awarded damages from OPP in racial profiling case
In a landmark decision, a human rights tribunal in Ontario has ordered police to pay out thousands of dollars in damages in Canada’s first legal case examining allegations of discrimination and racial profiling of migrant farmworkers.
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The nasty verbal assault on Chrystia Freeland tells us a lot about rage in Canadian politics
By Max Fawcett | Opinion | August 28th 2022
It’s an iron law in Alberta politics: when Premier Jason Kenney tries to spike the football, it inevitably finds its way back into his face. And while it seemed impossible at the time that he’d be able to top the fiasco that was his “Best Summer Ever” from 2021, he may have outdone himself with his recently launched “Alberta is Calling” campaign.
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Lululemon founder gives $380,000 to boost B.C.'s right
Lululemon founder gives $380,000 to boost B.C.'s right-leaning candidates, asks others to donate
Exclusive: Vancouver entrepreneur Chip Wilson has been urging other wealthy individuals to donate to new organization seeking to help B.C.'s right-leaning "pro-business" candidates defeat "socialist" opponents, starting with this October's municipal elections.
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Canadian teen arrested for threatening mass shooting at Florida Pride event: police
Updated June 6, 2022 6:44 p.m. PDT
Published June 6, 2022 6:32 p.m. PDT
A 17-year-old has been arrested in Canada for allegedly threatening to commit a mass shooting at a Pride event in Florida.
According to the West Palm Beach Police Department, the teen was arrested early Monday following an international investigation that the involved Toronto and Peel Regional Police, as well as the FBI.
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Driver of pickup truck alleged to have hit multiple people at residential school memorial march in B.C.
The driver of a pickup truck that allegedly struck several people at a residential schoolmemorial march in Mission, B.C. has turned himself in to police and had his vehicle seized for examination.
Mission RCMP provided the update on Monday, two days after the incident at the event, which was called the March for Recognition for Residential Schools. The detachment said the driver is not currently in custody.
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Jeremy Skibicki
1/2: Jeremy Skibicki faces a charge of first degree murder in the death of Rebecca Contois. Advocates are calling for the investigation to include his alleged violent and misogynistic motivations shared online. Host Marcy Markusa speaks with Helmut-Harry Loewen, a former University of Winnipeg Sociology professor, an anti-fascism activist, and an associate member of Simon Fraser University Humanities Institute (9 mins.)
The WSIB’s practice of deeming considered “racist”
Injured migrant workers and their allies wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, Ontario’s Premier, Ontario’s Labour Minister and the WSIB President and CEO on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, demanding an end to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) practice known as “deeming”, as they believe that this practice perpetuates “systemic racism.”
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