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Charlottesville and the politics of fear
Did Trump’s rhetoric played a part in radicalizing the far-right protesters in Charlottesville? AP Photo/Steve Helber This article first appeared at I have spent nearly 16 years studying how the risk...
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Trudeau condemns ‘racist’ rallies, urges trust in immigration system
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a town hall with high school students in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 3, 2016. (Chris Wattie/Reuters) MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
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How to win friends and influence some prejudiced people
Members of a white nationalist group clash against a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.—a more intense, heightened example of the soft bigotries that people face on a...
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Munroe Bergdorf’s firing shows the futility of workplace diversity campaigns
Munroe Bergdorf, July 26, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Dave M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Absolut Vodka) Just under three years ago, cosmetics giant L’Oreal announced the latest purchase...
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Why should Jagmeet Singh have to meet racist heckling with ‘love and courage’?
Jagmeet Singh listens during the final federal NDP leadership debate in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday September 10, 2017. Online voting begins September 18 with results announcement events being held...
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The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica Garner
Erica Garner takes part in a candlelight vigil. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri Christen A. Smith, Associate professor, University of Texas at Austin The sting of the premature death of 27-year-old Erica...
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Donald Trump’s presidency is the death rattle of a racist world view
U.S. President Donald Trump waves to journalists as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a meeting with the House Republican conference Nov. 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)...
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Peter Carey’s new novel grapples with Australia’s legacy of racism
Peter Carey. (Ulf Andersen/Getty) Peter Carey has won the Booker Prize twice for fictional explorations of Australian history, Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. Now, his new book A...
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How racism impacts your health
Health impacts from anti-Black racism and anti-Indigeneity are often dismissed or kept silent by health scholars and health care workers. (Shutterstock) Outside in public: Smiling, dressed real fine,...
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In Saskatchewan, the Stanley verdict has re-opened centuries-old wounds
Skyler Brown, cousin of Colten Boushie, visiting the grave of his cousin on the Red Pheasant First Nation, SK, February 16, 2018. (Photograph by Liam Richards) For a brief moment, the final rays of sun...
View ArticleAndray Domise: Why I’m #HereForCelina
The first thing to know about Black political involvement in Canada is that, until very recently, its success or failure has mostly revolved around managing white perceptions. This isn’t hyperbole, or...
View ArticleSocial media outrage got Roseanne fired. That’s a good thing.
If you ask most people of colour what their thoughts were as they watched the fallout from Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet, you’ll sense a theme: Incredulity. Disbelief. Shock. And a lot of: “Wait, ABC...
View ArticleRoseanne Barr’s fall was as righteous as it was inevitable
On May 29, following the latest in a long line of outbursts from comedian—and racist—Roseanne Barr, ABC cancelled the reboot of her self-titled sitcom. Roseanne would not, as had previously been...
View ArticleCalling out hate groups doesn’t ‘give them oxygen’—it prevents the hate from...
Elizabeth Moore is an educator on racist extremism, and is a former member of the white supremacist group, The Heritage Front. More than two decades after my days in a white supremacist group—and what...
View ArticleThe one issue that unites Canadians is the one that politicians ignore
Question: The media are riveted by the SNC Lavalin affair at a time when Canada is in the midst of a full-blown cultural storm over race and immigration. Why does one issue swamp the national debate...
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Why race and immigration are a gathering storm in Canadian politics
Going by quite a few headlines, commentaries and social media hot-takes making the rounds these days, you’d never know it, but Canadians are not working themselves up into a lather about immigrants or...
View ArticleWhere I come from
“That is not how we do things in Canada. A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.” That was Prime Minister Trudeau’s response to Trump’s latest racist tweet tirade where he told Democratic congresswomen...
View ArticleThe face of women in the age of Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump loves watching his tweets soar into cyberspace. At a social media summit he hosted at the White House last week—to which he invited several conspiratorial far-right figures,...
View Article‘A sadness you can’t describe’: The high price of Quebec’s Bill 21
On June 16, after Amrit Kaur attended her graduation ceremony in Ottawa, she drove with her parents and brother back to the family home in Vaudreuil, a suburb of Montreal, and, still in her graduation...
View ArticleJagmeet Singh and his idealism find their moment
Late on Wednesday night, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh expressed what millions of Canadians were feeling: pure disappointment in Justin Trudeau. The wretched irony of a privileged 29-year-old son of a prime...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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...
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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...
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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....
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...
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 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 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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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...
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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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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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