The Daily Ubuntu33 articles · page 3 of 3
The invisible knapsack
White privilege is neither wealth nor an easy life: it is everyday advantages we don't see, because they seem normal.
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.
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.
ReadWhat the official numbers say
Income, poverty, access to credit: official numbers show gaps, and therefore levers for action.
ReadJanuary 29, remembering together
After the 2017 attack on the Quebec City mosque, neighbours' solidarity helped a wounded community get back on its feet.
ReadRecess regained
Since 2024, cellphones have been banned in class in Quebec. Since September 2025, they have been banned throughout the school, to leave more room for one another.
ReadThe fridge that doesn't ask your name
In Montreal, community fridges set up on sidewalks let people give and take without forms or screens, while demand for food aid soars in Quebec.
ReadThe phone that rings on Monday
Since 1962, Les Petits Frères has matched isolated elders with volunteers, in person or on the phone, so that no one grows old alone.
ReadWhen young people talk about screens
A National Assembly commission listened to more than 500 students and 7,075 citizens about screens. The young people also talked about their parents.
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