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Race to the bottom in Ferguson
At first glance, he might have been one of the hundreds of angry local residents who took to the streets last week in Ferguson, Mo., to protest the police shooting of Michael Brown. But those round,...
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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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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...
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