links for 2008-05-22

• TheStar.com | News & Features | Where teachers learn diversity
  ‘And before they set foot in a classroom, student teachers must examine their own cultural identity – race, gender, social class, even sexual orientation – so they are aware of the bias they may bring to a classroom. “Our research shows who you are im
  (tags: bias race gender class sexualorientation education diversity peopleofcolour colourblindness visibleminority Canada Toronto Ontario YorkU teaching Arabic aboriginal disability multiculturalism)
• Metro – Prison staff failed to help inmate who bled to death: report
  “As Martin Blackwind lay in his prison cell bleeding to death from a self-inflicted gash to his arm, guards offered no first aid and took 10 minutes to call an ambulance, says a damning new report.”
  (tags: racism police systemic aboriginal death Ontario Canada)
• More anti-racism training and policing urged in Toronto schools
  “More training for staff members in equity and anti-racism issues, along with greater police presence in schools, are among the recommendations in a new action plan delivered Tuesday to Toronto District School Board.”
  (tags: racism antiracism Toronto Ontario Canada school education police public)
• Metro – Quebec Opposition demands release of report on minorities in province
  ‘Opposition Leader Mario Dumont is urging the provincial government to release a report on the reasonable accommodation of immigrants, saying leaks of the document indicate it is tinged with “grovelling” to minorities.’
  (tags: minority visibleminority Quebec Canada report immigration Islamophobia Muslim)
• Tasers can cause death, inquiry told
  “Research suggests Tasers can cause cardiac arrest, two heart specialists told an inquiry in Vancouver Tuesday.”
  (tags: science taser heart death Vancouver BritishColumbia Canada airport police Dziekanski)
• TheStar.com | Canada | MPs want immigration amendments in a new bill
  “The 12-member, all-party committee had been asked by Parliament for input on Bill C-50 in light of a public outcry about what regulatory changes might result from the bill’s bid to give Immigration Minister Diane Finley unprecedented discretionary powers
  (tags: immigration Canada Finley BillC50 discrimination law rules)
• Metro – Immigrant children more likely to get all their vaccinations: study
  “But to the surprise of the scientists who conducted the study, vaccination rates were higher among the children of new Canadians. The researchers, from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, had thought rates might be lower in this gr
  (tags: immigration Canada Ontario vaccination study health refugee children)