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What the official numbers say
Income, poverty, access to credit: official numbers show gaps, and therefore levers for action.
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Economy and inequality.
Merit matters. But only if everyone starts from the same line.
The thread
Hiring, housing, credit, diplomas: gaps can be measured, so they can be corrected. And mutual aid has always existed.
18 articles · each in four movements: a scene, a documented case, a voice, a question
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Canada
A score is not a person
Between 300 and 900, a credit score opens or closes doors. It measures a history, never a person's worth.
Readwomen
At the crossroads of injustice
In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw named intersectionality: some forms of discrimination only appear when we look at the whole person.
Readschool
Merit never arrives alone
The R score measures a rank, not a journey. And in the Toronto area, data show that Black students are suspended far more often.
ReadMontreal
Naming the invisible walls
Sparked by a citizens' petition, the OCPM consultation led Montreal, in 2020, to recognize the systemic nature of racism and discrimination.
ReadQuebec
The invisible knapsack
White privilege is neither wealth nor an easy life: it is everyday advantages we don't see, because they seem normal.
Reademployment
A public service that looks like us
In Quebec public bodies, visible minorities rose from 2.7% to 11.2% of the workforce between 2009 and 2022.
Reademployment
Equity is the law
In 2023, a task force chaired by a McGill professor proposed adding Black workers to the Employment Equity Act.
Readhistory
Strength in numbers
In 1900, in Lévis, the first caisse populaire was born to free modest families from usury: an Ubuntu idea before its time.
Readhousing
The answer that never comes
A CMHC experiment showed that in Montreal, rental inquiries from Black, Indigenous or LGBTQ+ tenants received fewer replies.
Reademployment
The résumé and the name
In 2012, a test run in Montreal with fictitious résumés showed that, with equal skills, a name weighed heavily on who got an interview.
Readimmigration
The diploma in the drawer
Nearly one in three recent immigrants with a degree says they are overqualified for their job; Quebec is trying to speed up recognition of skills acquired elsewhere.
Reademployment
The loan that opens the door
Launched in 2020, the Black Entrepreneurship Program has supported more than 24,000 entrepreneurs and was renewed in 2025.
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