systemic racism
What Joyce Echaquan knew
Pam Palmater: Systemic racism in health care continues because it has been normalized, ignored and denied, while the system places an onerous burden on First Nations peoples to prove racist hospital treatment
How Wes Hall is attacking racist systems, starting at the top
The Torontonian—who grew up in a tin shack in Jamaica and went on to establish a top shareholder advisory firm—launched the BlackNorth Initiative to nudge social change starting in Canada’s boardrooms
‘Courage and truth’: What Sandy Hudson and Ravyn Wngz hope to see in 2021
The Black Lives Matter activists have a discussion on what needs to happen next after a devastating but also inspiring year
The events of 2020 have made it clear that no one can ignore racism
Denying systemic racism is no longer tenable. But will the outrage of the past summer translate to substantive change?
In a new book series, Canadian critics grapple with COVID-19 and racism
An ongoing series of book-length essays called ‘Field Notes’, features political and cultural critics who comment on the pandemic and anti-racism movements
A statue of John A. Macdonald rests in purgatory
A project featuring a statue of every Canadian PM has become a politically charged minefield as the legacies of the nation’s early leaders are reappraised according to contemporary standards
What we’re seeing in 2020 is Idle No More 2.0
Pam Palmater: A much larger and more powerful movement than the last, led by Black and Indigenous peoples and supported by millions of Canadians
Trump’s ‘absurd manipulation of reality’ in Kenosha
Image of the Week: The owner of a wrecked shop refused to take part in Trump’s photo-op as the president used the riots to further inflame divisions rather than heal. Team Trump just found someone else to do the job.
Death and distrust in Alberta
Jacob Sansom and Morris Cardinal went on a hunting trip and never came back. The killing of the two Métis-Cree men deepens Indigenous peoples’ sense that their lives are less valued.
Black Nova Scotians face one less barrier when making claims to their own land
Black people who moved to Canada in the 1800s were promised land in Nova Scotia in exchange for staying loyal to the British crown. Instead, the province granted informal licences to live on the land, not own it.
How the nuclear family structure was forced upon present-day Black families
Andray Domise: This structure not only eroded the modes that Africans had long thrived on and carried out in their tradition, it drove the production of social and environmental ruin
‘As a First Nations MPP in Ontario…I cannot deny my loneliness.’
Sol Mamakwa: Every day I enter Queen’s Park, I see paintings of Queen Elizabeth, the faces of former premiers, and speakers of the house. I see them, but they don’t see me.