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Staying with discomfort: the suspicion that sticks to your skin
In Montreal, as elsewhere in Canada, young Black people are more often arrested and suspected. Numbers that disturb us, and that ask us to listen.
ReadWhat we braid, what we tear away
In Montréal-Nord, allegations of racist acts at Station 39, and colleagues who refused to stay silent.
ReadIn whose shade?
In Montreal, tree shade is unequally shared between neighbourhoods; new plantings now target the hottest areas.
ReadJuly 2018, the heat that isolates
The 2018 heat wave caused 66 deaths in Montreal, mostly among people who were alone or ill: neighbourly solidarity saves lives.
ReadArrested at a wedding, on Dante Street
In 1940, Italian Canadians were interned without charge. In 2021, the prime minister offered an official apology in the House of Commons, beginning with a Montreal story.
ReadA 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.
ReadNaming the invisible walls
Sparked by a citizens' petition, the OCPM consultation led Montreal, in 2020, to recognize the systemic nature of racism and discrimination.
ReadThe answer that never comes
A CMHC experiment showed that in Montreal, rental inquiries from Black, Indigenous or LGBTQ+ tenants received fewer replies.
ReadThe 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.
ReadBorrow a person for twenty minutes
Born in Denmark in 2000, the Human Library lets you borrow a person instead of a book, for the length of a conversation. The idea has travelled the world, all the way to Montreal's libraries.
ReadGrowing old far from your language
Nearly one Canadian senior in five feels lonely. For those who immigrated as adults, loneliness often has the accent of a language no one around them speaks anymore.
ReadIn the picture, but not in charge
Seeing more diverse faces on screen is not enough: in Canada, newsrooms and boards of directors remain barely open to racialized people.
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