A diploma with the wrong name
Waubgeshig Rice: We knew that succeeding at Ryerson University, named after a man who would have never wanted us there in the first place, would be the ultimate educational triumph
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Egerton Ryerson
’As a queer, trans and Afro-Indigenous woman, I believed that I could never be a representative of Black liberation’
Ravyn Wngz: On July 18, Black Lives Matter Toronto held an art demonstration that involved painting and stencilling three racist statues in pink. To me, the colour pink represents life—vibrant, bold and free.
The push to erase Canada’s racist past
The drive to remove monuments and place names that offend racial sensibilities is gaining momentum. Are we facing up to the past? Or hiding it?