links for 2008-06-14
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“Newsflash: an environment that allows sexism to flourish is usually an environment that allows racism to flourish. Feminists, anti-racists – heck, anyone who cares about creating a culture that has less hate – should bolster the argument that sexism
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links for 2008-06-13
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“In other words, just like Asian Americans, Asian Canadians still experience some degree of inequality — perhaps we can even say discrimination — when it comes to applying their high educational credentials to the actual income that they receive.”
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“In the wake of a much-publicized string of attacks on Asian fishermen, a community was forced to face its demons. Now, the focus is on healing”
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“Chinese youth involved in crime often blame discrimination and a lack of opportunities as reasons they joined youth gangs, the co-author of a report on criminality in the ethnic community told a Vancouver audience”
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“When people of colour resist racism and marginalisation, they are aspiring to belong to be part of the Canadian nation, [...] But their activities often are interpreted as disruptive, and the people who resist racism are labelled as ungrateful.”
links for 2008-06-11
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“although the success rate of finding a match for Caucasians is 75 per cent to 80 per cent [...], the number of Chinese registrants is only around 200,000, leading to a success rate of only five per cent.”
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“A case of two youngsters seized from a couple suspected of being racist has raised the question of how far parents can go in teaching their children what they think is right.”
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“Findings of commission on minorities being twisted: Gérard Bouchard “
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“The changes, which were larded into a financial bill by the minority Conservative government, permit Immigration Minister Diane Finley to fast-track skilled immigrants of her choosing, while making it more difficult for others to get in. The government w
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“Questions about whether racism played a part in the fatal police shooting of a Winnipeg teen continue to be raised as an inquest began Monday into the death.”
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“In 2006, police services covering 87% of Canada’s population reported 892 hate-motivated crimes, of which 6 in 10 were motivated by race/ethnicity.”
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“Controversial murals at the B.C. legislature portraying native life in centuries past are being permanently covered up. Painted in 1932, the George Southwell murals depict, among other things, bare-breasted native women carrying logs and baskets of fish,
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“[June 2, 2008], about 40 of the St. Mary’s Secondary School students came to Toronto’s U.S. consulate to voice their concerns about the continued detention of Khadr – who is charged under a 2006 military law with five war crimes, including murder in th
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“The national organization representing Inuit wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper to apologize specifically to Inuit in his formal apology to former residential school students on Wednesday.”
links for 2008-06-02
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“Al-Azzawi’s designs include a variety of colours, patterns and fits, including some designed to match specialized work clothes such as hospital scrubs and others designed for Canada’s harsh winters, with a fleece liner and windproof shell.”
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“A black-focused school might help slow dropout rates, members of Montreal’s black community told the English Montreal School Board on Tuesday night.”
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“1. We are lucky. This has to be the first answer, I think. It’s not an answer with a lot of obvious politics to it, but it gets at the idea that, contrary to the ways this question might get spun by some on the right, the absence of open warfare in North
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“Fellow niggers” the 21-year-old shouted in front of other University of Toronto graduates, professors and his uncomprehending parents. “Look what Mr. Charlie’s done to your minds.” (Mr. Charlie was a disparaging reference to white people.)
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‘The deadly food riots in Haiti have exposed Canada’s doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect” (or R2P) for the Big Power, self-serving and interventionist pretext that it has been since a joint Canada-UN commission defined it in 2001.’
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“A Quebec woman, who spent a week as a hostage in Haiti, flashed a wide smile and clutched loved ones after touching down in Canada.”
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“Hundreds of aboriginals toting placards and flags rallied outside a southern Ontario courthouse Friday in an effort to garner the support of their non-aboriginal neighbours, while city officials sought an injunction tied to a contentious land dispute.”
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“A Chinese community group is raising concerns about a government-funded booklet concerning the work ethic of Chinese employees, which was produced for small businesses in York Region.
The Chinese Cultural Guide for Employers is full of stereotypes, ac
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“The treaty granted the Nisga’a land, hundreds of millions of dollars and powers of self-government. In exchange, the Nisga’a settled for 1,992 square kilometres of land in the lower Nass Valley and gave up their tax-exempt status.”
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“The head of the organization that represents Inuit in northern Quebec says he’s outraged that Quebec wildlife officers are searching Inuit passengers at the Montreal airport.”
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“A man accused of using his university studies as a cover for terrorist activities has been awarded a $5,000 entrepreneurial prize from Wilfrid Laurier University.”
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“But Mr. Hall, 35, who is disabled, said it was his limp and not intoxication that attracted the attention of the RCMP and set off a chain of events that ended with him being tasered seven times, including once to the testicles.”
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“it becomes very, very clear that Muslims today, don’t just refer to a religious identity– Muslims have become a racialized category of exclusion. If we look at who was attacked in Canada and in the United States, Hindu temples were desecrated, Sikh t
links for 2008-05-27
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“It’s not a good recipe for cohesion when you have a very educated [visible minority] population that is suffering disproportionately higher rates of unemployment and a less educated [white] population that’s not encountering the same kind of employment c
links for 2008-05-24
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“The vibrancy, the colour and the freedom to express myself, which is so much a part of Toronto, took my breath away. I decided to move. The gay scene in the U.S. does not even come close to what we have here in Toronto.”
links for 2008-05-23
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“Toronto District School Board trustees have given final approval to Toronto’s first Africentric school, but not without another meeting filled with acrimony and charges of racism.”
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“After years of debate that has divided communities of every colour, Toronto’s public school board voted tonight to open an Africentric alternative school in September 2009.”
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“The time has come for Quebec to get over its collective identity crisis and adapt to the realities of a secular, pluralistic society, says a provincial commission’s report on the thorny issue of reasonable accommodation.”
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“For the first time, imprisoned Canadian Huseyin Celil has spoken out in his own words about his 2½-year ordeal in the Chinese legal system, saying he is quickly losing hope that he will ever see the outside world again.”
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“Toronto’s Africentric school is open for everyone, not just black students. This is not racial segregation. Everyone needs an Africentric education.”
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“There will be a Sepia Mutiny meet-up this Sat at 5p.m. in Toronto!”
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“Apparently, the only people invited to the Canadian Club Club are White Males, Ages 18-30, women and people of color need not apply.”
links for 2008-05-22
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‘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
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“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.”
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“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.”
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‘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.’
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“Research suggests Tasers can cause cardiac arrest, two heart specialists told an inquiry in Vancouver Tuesday.”
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“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
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“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
links for 2008-05-21
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“South Asians, blacks develop high blood pressure at rate three times that of the general population”
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“Quebecers should accept head scarf and move on, report concludes”
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“While it is good to see the government showing some sort of accountability to the extreme genocide they have inflicted on Aboriginal peoples, I have to wonder if Harper even really knows what he’s apologizing for.”
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“No one walks into schools with all white students and all white staff and asks how those kids will assimilate in a diverse world when they graduate. Why do we ask that about schools that aren’t white?”
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“A new study suggests sexually abused aboriginal youth in B.C. have a greater chance of contracting HIV and hepatitis C than people in other sectors of the population.”
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“Jerry Gezaw and Assumpta Muhimpundu met not too long ago at Marc Garneau Collegiate in Thorncliffe Park and now they finish each other’s sentences, go to movies together and share secrets.”
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“He had broken off with his girlfriend of four years in Canada to wed a young Punjabi woman who lived near his family’s village home. The wedding never took place.”
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‘”We have an obligation, a responsibility as human beings, to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves,” said Conservative Senator Consiglio Di Nino.’ ???
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“After my interview with the Macleans on the subject of Tibet was published in April, I received, through friends, questions from a columnist of a local newspaper. I replied him with a long email on April 19, as follows.”
links for 2008-05-20
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“Prime Minister Stephen Harper will officially apologize on June 11 on behalf of the government for abuses suffered by former residents of native residential schools, Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said on Thursday.”
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A lawyer for the Vancouver Police Department says allegations of a coverup and racism in an aboriginal man’s freezing death have rocked the force.
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“Toronto is one of the only cities a black, an Asian, an Indian, gay, straight, Italian, Portuguese, a Jewish or Muslim person can walk into a bar without a punch line happening after … that’s just what Toronto is,” said Peters.
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“In an application for a judicial review, the RCMP argues the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal was wrong to find the force had discriminated against Ali Tahmourpour of Toronto or that he deserved any compensation.Tahmourpour said he is bitterly disappointed
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“The RCMP have confirmed that the human remains found on a First Nations reserve earlier this month belong to missing teenager Amber Tara-Lynn Redman.”
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‘Last week, the government announced a $10-million grant to the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko to “support initiatives related to the First World War internment experience that predominantly affected the Ukrainian and other East Europea
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‘Her faith in the RCMP “shattered” following the death of her son at the Vancouver airport, the mother of Robert Dziekanski called for a moratorium on the use of the weapon Thursday at public inquiry into the use of Tasers.’
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“The Ontario government is creating a $25 million fund to help aboriginal communities hire lawyers and other advisers to “level the playing field” in treaty and business negotiations with Ottawa, the province and resource firms.”
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“Imposing a deadline to settle a long-standing aboriginal land-claim dispute in the southwestern Ontario town of Caledonia is not the way to go despite provincial calls to speed up the process, Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said Thursday.”
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“Immigration Minister Diane Finley will face calls to defend her department’s controversial advertising campaign to promote reforms that have yet to be passed into law.”
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“A book about genocide has been pulled from the recommended reading list of a new Toronto public school course because of objections from the Turkish-Canadian community, the author says.”
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“South Asians were the largest visible minority group in Canada according to the 2006 Census. However, South Asians are a very diverse group with respect to both ethnic origin and country of birth.”
