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Like in the United States and the United Kingdom, the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected Black and racialized communities in Canada. A Global News analysis in October last year found … Read More
Indigenous people in British Columbia are getting consistently sub-standard access to health care, according to new report digging into anti-Indigenous racism in the health-care system. Former children’s commissioner Mary Ellen … Read More
As Canada tries to address racism in healthcare, the country’s vaccine rollout needs to focus more on Indigenous communities, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday. His statements come amid … Read More
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says the provincial chief medical health officer deserves an apology from the person who made degrading racist remarks at a rally opposing public health orders. Moe, … Read More
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is speaking out against the racist remarks degrading the provincial chief medical officer that were made by a speaker at a rally opposing public health orders. … Read More
The B.C. government has apologized for widespread occurrences of racism towards Indigenous people in BC’s health care system. The apology comes after a months-long investigation found wide-spread racism in the … Read More
A months-long investigation has found allegations of nurses and doctors guessing the blood alcohol level of Indigenous patients and perhaps others were “unsubstantiated.” Former children’s commissioner Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond was … Read More
Family and friends of Joyce Echaquan, who died in a Joliette hospital on Monday, are speaking out. The 37-year-old Indigenous woman from the Atikamekw Nation of Manawan passed away shortly … Read More
After months of harassment and racist remarks, the doctor at the centre of a COVID-19 controversy that rocked New Brunswick says his life has been changed entirely. Dr. Jean Robert … Read More
Halifax resident Tari Ajadi posted a video to his Twitter account on Tuesday showing an encounter with a man after alleged racial abuse. Ajadi, a student at Dalhousie, says he … Read More
TORONTO — A new research project will look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on racialized communities as well as existing biases in the health-care system. The national project … Read More
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press Posted July 20, 2020 3:23 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Black children were more … Read More
Police in Ontario shot 62-year-old Ejaz Choudry in his home. In New Brunswick, they shot Chantel Moore in her home and Rodney Levi at a friend’s barbecue. Prior to that, … Read More
The gap between the U.S. unemployment rates for Black people and white people widened further in June, to its largest in five years, underscoring the uneven nature of the nascent … Read More
Ejaz Choudry, a 62-year-old Mississauga, Ont., resident, was in crisis and reportedly suffering from a schizophrenic episode when police entered his home on Saturday and fatally shot him. Police responded … Read More
Asian communities in Canada have reported name-calling, insults and outright assaults since the novel coronavirus pandemic began. And according to a survey from the Angus Reid Institute, the problem is … Read More
In Canada, there has been growing support to declare racism — specifically anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism — a public health issue in the wake of recent protests against police brutality. … Read More
Darren Thornton is in the process of researching new names to rebrand CrossFit Defy, the gym he co-owns with his wife Michelle in Toronto’s Leaside neighbourhood. He estimates their 32-foot … Read More
Prominent American academic and author Michael Eric Dyson says the current wave of anti-racism protests swelling across the United States, Canada and the world are unlike any others in the … Read More
Almost a week after 29-year-old Regis Korchinski-Paquet fell to her death at a west-end apartment building, the co-chair of the Toronto Police Services Board’s anti-racism advisory panel says she has … Read More
