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Cover preview: Canada’s race problem
Update: This cover story is now online. Read it here. Is Winnipeg the most racist city in Canada? The Manitoba capital is deeply divided along ethnic lines. Its Native citizens suffer daily...
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Welcome to Winnipeg: Where Canada’s racism problem is at its worst
Thelma Favel, Tina Fontaine’s aunt, can’t forgive herself for letting Tina go to Winnipeg. (Photographs in this story by John Woods) “Oh Goddd how long are aboriginal people going to use what happened...
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Canada’s race problem? It’s even worse than America’s.
BERNARD WEIL/TORONTO STAR/CP The racial mess in the United States looks pretty grim and is painful to watch. We can be forgiven for being quietly thankful for Canada’s more inclusive society, which has...
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Winnipeg rises to a challenge
Grand Chief Derek Nepinak addresses the media regarding racism in Winnipeg while Mayor Brian Bowman listens. (Mike Deal/Winnipeg Free Press) If there’s something we’ve grown used to at Maclean’s, it’s...
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Winnipeg leaders vow to face racism head-on
Mayor Brian Bowman addresses the media regarding racism in Winnipeg. (Mike Deal/Winnipeg Free Press) To read our cover story, click here. It was, from the start, not your standard press conference. Not...
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You can build a better Canada, or you can get out of the way
Photograph by John Woods This week, Maclean’s published a powerful piece of journalism. Nancy Macdonald wrote about her hometown, Winnipeg, and the terrible conditions under which some of its...
View ArticleManitoba MLA Kevin Chief on racism in Winnipeg
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Kevin Chief: Facing Winnipeg’s North End
Photograph by John Woods Who is Nancy Macdonald? Why did she say such terrible things about my city, my lifelong neighbourhood, and my home? Why was she sensationalizing so many painful stories from...
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Dinner and conversation—in the name of ending racism
Rosanna Deerchild, centre, organized an event in which around 80 people joined together at The Forks in Winnipeg to discuss the issue of racism. The event featured dinner and discussion. (Photograph by...
View ArticleOntario must combat racism, says outgoing human rights commissioner
TORONTO — Ontario has made progress in combating the scourge of racism and other forms of discrimination but the fight is far from over, the outgoing head of the province’s human rights commission...
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Move over, Peter Parker. It’s time for a black Spider-Man.
(Columbia Pictures/Everett Collection) This past week, the web’s spider senses were tingling with the rumour that the next cinematic Spider-Man—yes, there’s another reboot, due out in 2017—won’t be a...
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Winnipeg’s new art project stares down racism in the face
KC Adams/Urban Shaman Gallery Starting next week, downtown Winnipeg will be blanketed by art meant to challenge negative perceptions of the city’s indigenous residents. The project, spearheaded by the...
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How Starbucks’ Race Together campaign is playing out
Ted S. Warren/AP Last week, just after St. Patrick’s Day rollicked past midnight, outside an Irish-style pub across the street from the University of Virginia (UVA) campus, an African-American...
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Brian Bowman: ‘I want all Winnipegers to be proud’
WINNIPEG — Brian Bowman had barely unpacked his sports memorabilia and family photos in the mayor’s office when he was thrust into the national spotlight. It wasn’t for being the first indigenous...
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Winnipeg mayor calls summit as city tries to shake ‘most racist’ label
Read: Welcome to Winnipeg: Where Canada’s racism problem is at its worst Winnipeg’s mayor is calling a summit for next month as the city tries to shake off being dubbed the most racist in Canada....
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American kids feel the brunt of anti-Muslim backlash
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes a selfie with a supporter as he prepares to leave a campaign event in Anderson, South Carolina October 19, 2015. (Chris Keane/Reuters) A...
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One year later: Winnipeg leaders on a city’s fight against racism
At a press conference Friday morning, Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman declared 2016 as the city’s Year of Reconciliation. A year ago, a Maclean’s cover story looked at the troubling divide between...
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The angry, radical right
Brian Kennedy/Getty Images Lawrence Witko doesn’t actually want Justin Trudeau dead, he swears. Nor does he really want to kill all Muslims, moderate or otherwise, or hope for the mass killing of...
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Winnipeg a leader in fixing Canada’s racism problem
Mayor Brian Bowman marks the one-year anniversary of Winnipeg’s designation as Canada’s most racist city. Bowman announced that 2016 would be a year of reconciliation for the city. (Photograph by Sam...
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Trumputin: Disturbing parallels between Trump and Putin
Donald Trump has a bit of a thing for strongmen. Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi might have been “bad guys,” he allows, but “at least they killed terrorists.” Ditto for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad,...
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