Forty-nine days of racism in the news

Calls for investigations into the existence of racism are akin to asking Indigenous people to prove they have suffered.

Thousands protested anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism and police violence on Parliament Hill on June 5. 'It seems impossible to deny the systemic discrimination experienced by First Nations and Inuit peoples in relation to the public services investigated,' retired Quebec Judge Jacques Viens said in his 2019 report on that province's treatment of Indigenous people. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

July 13, 2020

OTTAWA—It’s been 49 days since George Floyd died. It has been forty-nine days of international rally and protest, demands for change, system outrage at demands for change, and general confusion. On that day a Black Canadian was also assaulted by police in Laval. It’s been 49 exhausting days f...

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