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By Alex Marland Guest Contributor The claim: Justin Trudeau says that the 2021 Canadian federal election might be the most important election since 1945. The verdict: This election is important for Trudeau’s political legacy. All political leaders, particularly heads of ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Hogan’s Alley was Vancouver’s first major Black community and continued to grow, as Black immigrants escaped from the United States. According to Wayde Compton, a Black Canadian writer and historian, “there has been a Black ...

By Ingrid Waldron and Juliet Daniel Guest Contributors In the 1940s, the town of Shelburne, N.S., became home to a new garbage dump. Residential, industrial and medical waste from throughout eastern Shelburne County was burned at the dump over the decades, ...

By Stephen Weir Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — A provincial private members Bill — to proclaim Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day and Thalassemia Awareness Day — received rare Royal Assent, earlier this month, just in time to honour this year’s ...

TORONTO, Ontario — The Board of Directors of the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) has hired Moya Teklu as the legal clinic’s new Executive Director and General Counsel. Teklu has a long history of working to eradicate anti-Black racism in ...

YORK REGION, Ontario — Educator, Darcie Sutherland, was appointed, two weeks ago, as Principal of Inclusive School and Community Services, with responsibility for coordinating the implementation of the York Region District School Board’s (YRDSB) Dismantling Anti-Black Racism Strategy (DABRS). A ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer BRAMPTON, Ontario — Overjoyed! That is the feeling of many African Canadians — who were following the Ontario Judicial Council hearing into four allegations of misconduct, against Justice Donald McLeod — when they heard that ...

The following statement was issued by BADC, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 TORONTO, Ontario — The Black Action Defense Committee Inc. (BADC) is alarmed and outraged at the cavalier behavior of Vancouver police in, allegedly, mistakenly, arresting Justice Selwyn Romilly, one ...

By Mark Winfield Guest Contributor Recent days have been the bleakest in a dark year for Ontario residents. The variant-driven third, and most serious, wave of COVID-19 has brought the province’s hospital system to the edge of critical breakdowns and claimed ...

By Bryony Lau Guest Contributor This May, Canadians will again be asked if they identify as a member of a set list of minority groups when filling out the long-form census. That data is used to measure the portion of Canada’s ...