Black student groups lead the charge as StatsCan data gives deep dive on racism in education

Recent Statistics Canada findings indicate socio-economic factors alone can't account for the disparities in educational outcomes between Black Canadians and the rest of the population.

The University of Toronto's Naylor Building, home to the school's department of medicine, is pictured in July 2018. The university's medical school is now one of three in Canada—out of 17 across the country—to have an admissions stream dedicated to Black students.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Ken Eckert

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BY AIDAN CHAMANDY

September 16, 2020

As the international focus on systemic racism continues, disaggregated data from Statistics Canada gives a new glimpse into how anti-Black racism affects Black students in Canada, and the findings should compel universities and other major institutions to "look back to the basis of the structures we...

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