The Daily Ubuntu33 articles · page 2 of 3
The mirror: one species, very real categories
Science confirms it: human races do not exist in biology. Racism, however, invented categories that still wound.
ReadThe right to say no
In Quebec, First Nations and Inuit women were sterilized without true consent. Their words call for practices to change.
ReadThe weight of little phrases
"Where are you really from?" One by one, microaggressions seem harmless. Added up, they weigh. Research confirms it.
ReadThe Paix des Braves, as equals
In 2002, Quebec and the Cree replaced years of lawsuits with a nation-to-nation agreement on the territory and the forest.
ReadThe community freezer
In Nunavik, nearly eight in ten people experience food insecurity. Yet almost everyone gives or receives food: here, game is shared before it is sold.
ReadWhen the land burns, where does home go?
In 2023, forest fires ravaged 4.5 million hectares in Quebec. In Eeyou Istchee, Cree families lost much more than timber: traplines, camps, part of their memory.
ReadThe Pines, thirty-six years later
In the summer of 1990, a pine forest in Kanesatake became the heart of a 78-day crisis. Since then, Mohawk and Quebecer neighbours have been slowly learning to talk to each other.
ReadThe day Quebec apologized
After the Viens Commission, the Premier of Quebec apologized to First Nations and Inuit in 2019. The real work was just beginning.
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.
ReadMerit 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.
ReadStrength in numbers
In 1900, in Lévis, the first caisse populaire was born to free modest families from usury: an Ubuntu idea before its time.
ReadThe 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.
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