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Protesters threw rocks at the PM. It should matter more.
This past weekend, someone in an angry crowd threw rocks (or gravel) at Justin Trudeau at an election campaign stop in London, Ont. Afterwards, Trudeau told reporters on his campaign plane that...
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What Joyce Echaquan knew
Dr. Pam Palmater is a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in New Brunswick and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University. Imagine being hospitalized with a serious health condition and...
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George Floyd’s murder, one year later: Two generations of Black men on the...
I watched the George Floyd video standing in my kitchen, trembling. It took me back to the slavery museum in Selma, Alabama, where, the morning after Barack Obama was voted the first Black president of...
View ArticleA call to end racism in Canada’s health care systems
The Hon. Dr. Jane Philpott is a former federal minister of health and minister of Indigenous services. She is dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University. I wish I could say with...
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A statue of John A. Macdonald rests in purgatory
Close up of the sculpture of Macdonald at the entrance of The Prime Ministers Path in Wilmot, Ont. (Photograph by Yader Guzman) There are remnants of red paint in John A. Macdonald’s hair and more by...
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Chinese Canadians share their experiences of racism during COVID-19
In May, Human Rights Watch compiled a list of xenophobic acts stemming from the coronavirus in countries such as England, Australia and Russia. It found that in some instances, government leaders have...
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‘I don’t care whether All Lives Matter is said in ignorance—it’s just another...
Liz Ikiriko is an independent curator, artist and lecturer at Ryerson University. Melanie Carrington is an investigator. Máiri McKenna Edwards is diversity and inclusivity training coordinator at the...
View ArticleCanadian universities must collect race-based data
I moved to Edmonton in July 2013 after completing an Honours B.Sc. in chemistry at the Western University. I came to study the oil sands, to understand which chemicals are in tailings ponds and how...
View Article‘To the football fans cheering the Edmonton team for decades: there was a...
On July 12, The NFL’s Washington team announced that it would retire its name after mounting pressure from the public, Native-American leaders and FedEx, one of the team’s largest corporate sponsors....
View ArticleJagmeet Singh calls MP ‘racist,’ but has he forgotten about Bill 21?
Tom Mulcair was the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada between 2012 and 2017. In 2016, when I first prepared a House of Commons motion condemning islamophobia, we couldn’t get it past a...
View ArticleThe hidden racist history of ‘O Canada’
Every time I stand for the Canadian national anthem, I think about blackface. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I thought about blackface during the anthem long before Justin Trudeau’s appearances in...
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Hal Johnson: ‘Yes, there is systemic racism in Canada’
You may know me from BodyBreak, which I host, alongside my wife Joanne McLeod. We are an interracial couple and we are the creators of BodyBreak, which has been part of the Canadian media for 32 years....
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Who the real extremists are in America
There was a moment during the Black Lives Matter march in Boston on May 31 when it became clear that those who wanted to turn a legitimate outpouring of anger into a riotous paroxysm were destined to...
View ArticleWhat Prohibition teaches us about race relations in the U.S.
This is a two-part series on the history of Prohibition, white terrorism and discriminatory policing in America, which revealed ingrained racism and tore America apart in the 1920s and ’30s. Parallel...
View ArticleCarol Anderson and Kevin Young in conversation with Paul Wells: Maclean’s Live
The deaths of George Floyd and countless other Black people in the U.S. and Canada at the hands of the police have sparked protests across the globe decrying anti-Black racism. Maclean’s Live is...
View ArticleStockwell’s day is done
Last week, former Canadian Alliance leader and Conservative MP Stockwell Day resigned from Telus’s board of directors and stepped down as strategic adviser to a law firm McMillan LLP after he said that...
View ArticleCanada’s dire need for better race-based data
Canada’s highest incidence of Indigenous COVID-19 infections is in Saskatchewan. On that, the federal government and independent researchers agree. But they’re sharing wildly different numbers: as of...
View ArticleCriticism of the Chinese government’s handling of coronavirus is not racism
Marcus Kolga is a digital communications strategist and expert on foreign disinformation. He is a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Centre for Advancing Canada’s Interests Abroad. When...
View ArticleJagmeet Singh is poised and pitch-perfect in the face of a slur
From the moment the man approached, Jagmeet Singh seemed to sense tension. The NDP leader—the first Canadian federal leader whose skin colour is not white—greeted the Quebec resident in Montreal’s...
View ArticleWhich party will address systemic racism in Canada?
Ritika Goel is a family physician and family medicine lecturer at the University of Toronto. Recent photos of Justin Trudeau donning blackface and brownface have rocked the nation. But public...
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