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The path chosen for you at 14
In the Toronto area, Black students were twice as likely to be streamed into the applied program. Ontario eventually abolished Grade 9 streaming.
ReadThirty-four hours in a waiting room
In Winnipeg, in 2008, Brian Sinclair died without ever being treated. His story reminds us that being seen is already a form of care.
ReadWhen a profession apologizes
In 2024, the Canadian Medical Association apologized to First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples for the harms caused by medicine.
ReadWhen the device doesn't see the skin
Pulse oximeters can overestimate blood oxygen in people with darker skin. A bias hidden in an ordinary object.
ReadA law to name what we breathe
Since 2024, a federal law has required Canada to study environmental racism and build a national strategy, expected in the fall of 2026.
ReadA'se'k, the harbour given back to the sea
For 53 years, a mill discharged its wastewater into a Mi'kmaw estuary; the community won an end to the discharges and a major cleanup.
ReadBreathing next to Chemical Valley
In 2024, benzene spikes led Aamjiwnaang, near Sarnia, to declare a state of emergency, then to a pilot project against environmental racism.
ReadEnvironmental racism, right here
Who breathes the smoke, who lives next to the dump? Environmental racism raises the question of "us" on the scale of a whole territory.
ReadTap water, a right for whom?
Dozens of First Nations still live under long-term water advisories; a historic settlement shows that change is possible.
ReadThe neighbourhoods drawn in red
In the 1930s, maps decided which neighbourhoods deserved credit. Their red lines still weigh on the land we live on.
ReadThe river that gives life
At Grassy Narrows, mercury dumped upstream poisoned fish and families; decades of struggle have won commitments to repair.
ReadA declaration for all peoples
Canada voted against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, before endorsing it without qualification, then making it law.
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