The Daily Ubuntu36 articles · page 3 of 3
Repairing, for their children and for ours
In 1988, Canada recognized the injustice done to Japanese Canadians during the war and chose to repair, not just to regret.
ReadThe battalion no one wanted to see
More than 600 Black volunteers served Canada in 1917-1918, kept away from the front. In 2022, the country finally apologized to them.
ReadThe garden with two soils
Racism cannot be reduced to a hateful act. A gardener's fable helps us see its three levels, and where to start repairing.
ReadA whole career on the first rung
Black federal public servants allege decades of discrimination in hiring and promotion. Their class action was refused at first instance; the appeal is to be heard this fall.
ReadAt the crossroads of injustice
In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw named intersectionality: some forms of discrimination only appear when we look at the whole person.
ReadEquity is the law
In 2023, a task force chaired by a McGill professor proposed adding Black workers to the Employment Equity Act.
ReadThe land of our great-grandparents
In Nova Scotia, Black families have lived for two centuries on land without clear title. Since 2017, a public initiative has finally been helping them get recognized what is theirs.
ReadThe same apartment, two answers
Turned down for an apartment that the landlord offered the same day to her white partner, a Black Quebecer filed a complaint, and the Tribunal ruled in her favour.
ReadA law against online hate, still awaited
In 2024, Ottawa tabled a bill on online harms. It died on the order paper, but the question remains wide open.
ReadJanuary 29, remembering together
After the 2017 attack on the Quebec City mosque, neighbours' solidarity helped a wounded community get back on its feet.
ReadThe hate that goes unreported
Police-reported hate crimes have more than doubled since 2018, but most hateful acts are never reported.
ReadThe virus had a face, they said
In 2020, hate crimes targeting people of Asian origin soared in Canada. A rumour can single out an entire group; a gesture can remind us these are neighbours.
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