To continue the fight against racism in health care, we must ensure that Black students have training in the health professions with a curriculum that includes race-specific health information.
Having Muslim and Jewish communities ‘at the same table’ will help unify Canadians in the ‘fight to put an end to all types of hate’ without leaving anyone behind, says Liberal MP Salma Zahid.
Reinforcing Canada’s national identity as white, male, and British—even if it includes historical lies—is a projection of one of this country’s main characteristics: insecurity.
The Tory leader’s convention speech included a nod to ending diversity, equity, and inclusion. Let’s unpack the idea of merit.
We have good reason to be concerned by the poison of misinformation and hate that willfully seeks to undermine our democratic norms and institutions.
A Halifax constituent and an advocate for Sudanese applicants are both calling for Immigration Minister Lena Diab to be shuffled out of her role as the federal program for Sudanese resettlement is marked by increasing delays.
The vague attacks on DEI distract from the very real ways that Canadians interact with equity-oriented federal programs that bolster opportunity and reduce barriers.
The general consensus at the Oct. 30 ceremony was that this emotional apology is a starting point, not the closure of an historical chapter.
As evidence-based reforms are consistently framed as politically contentious, institutions are constrained, democratic deliberation narrows, and public trust is eroded.
As of March 2024, just over 70 per cent of the core public administration belonged to one or more employment equity groups. But as the bureaucracy now begins to shrink for the first time in over 10 years, these groups could be disproportionately impacted.
Communities voting around shared interests has helped shape American electoral outcomes for decades, but its potential has not been fully realized in Canada.
Education and research institutions must take a strong stand against anti-Black racism, and work tirelessly to eliminate its effects on Canadians.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada filed a human rights complaint on behalf of all of its Black members employed in the federal public service on March 27.
The federal government released its framework to implement the Black Justice Strategy more than four years after promising action following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
The rise of anti-woke rhetoric in Canada—which appears to mirror movements in the United States—is potentially harmful to this country’s economic prosperity, and public health.
Judging from today’s political and social environment, we’ve failed to learn the critical lessons from the Holocaust and the hateful Islamophobic attacks on Canadian soil.
The Canadian Association of Journalists’ annual diversity survey reveals news interns are more likely to be female, Indigenous, or a visible minority, while ‘white people are overrepresented in supervisor and leadership roles.’
The Dec. 16 fall economic update offers no further details on planned savings tied to ‘natural attrition’ in the 2024 federal budget, but noted that effort ‘will begin showing results in 2025-26.’
The decision to cleave online harms from hate crimes in Bill C-63 is ‘a step in the right direction,’ but the outstanding punishment proposals are ‘irrational,’ says the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said the call to designate Black people as a distinctive class under the Employment Equity Act is ‘under active consideration.’
Climate change, demographic shifts, and new technologies will dramatically change childhood in the coming years, while Children and Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds acknowledged governments needed to reflect young people’s ‘voices and your wants for the future.’
The multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleges systemic anti-Black discrimination in the federal public service resulted in lost wages and pensions for Black government staff.
About half the voting populace seems ready to cast a presidential ballot for a criminal who has trod on every notion of decency in American public life.
A country that prides itself on moral values and welcoming diversity no longer seems to extend those values, rights, and safety to the Jewish community.
The Privy Council Office can’t be relied on to get its own affairs in order after a damning internal report detailing a culture of racism and workplace discrimination, says a coalition of federal employees and civil society groups.
