Canada’s major media outlets have good intentions, but they don’t yet have anything to show for their efforts at creating more diverse newsrooms.
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Peter Uduehi
Peter Uduehi is a journalist and currently publisher and editor of African World News in Toronto. Versed in African and American politics, he has spent most of his adult years in the USA where he studied journalism and later worked as reporter and news editor for several US media outlets before emigrating to Canada 10 years ago.
OZ Program Helps Keep Black Youth Out of Criminal Justice System
Black and racialised youth can get help in their dealings with Police through a program called Ounce of Prevention (OZ), which is funded by Public Safety Canada.
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‘Colour-Blind’ Approaches to Data Collection Amplifies Marginalization of BIPOC Canadians
Having lived in both Canada and the U.S., columnist Peter Uduehi writes that Canadians don’t like to talk about race and racial divisions. What impact does this have on public policy making?
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Canada Has Its Own Brand of Racism
Racism exists in Canada – but it looks and feels different than that found in the United States, writes Peter Uduehi.
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Part 3: Online Chatter of ‘Black Immunity’ to COVID-19 Not Based in Evidence
This is the last in our 3-part series on how the pandemic is affecting specific immigrant communities. African Canadians, it seems, face a particular challenge: a reported low current rate of infection, but worried about historical trends that suggest the worst is yet to come.
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Trump is at War with Black People
Trump has called African countries both “beautiful” and “s-hole”. Now, they face a travel ban to the U.S. What is this really about?
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Canada — not Norway or Ireland — is in Africa for the Long Haul
The presence of Canadian soldiers going through the streets of an African country can be weighty in terms of optics.
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‘I Just Don’t Trust the Conservatives, Period’: Why the GTA Went Red — Pt. III
Why did Africans in the GTA go for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals over the Conservatives and the New Democrats?
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African Muslims Fight Radicalization
African Muslim community leaders see themselves on the frontlines of this struggle, advocating against the internet as a source of religious teaching,
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PULSE: Africa – What You Didn’t Read in the Mainstream
From the fight against radicalization and professional roadblocks to the question of whether a Black police chief would have any impact in Toronto, here are some recent headlines in the African-Canadian diaspora media. Radicals Have…
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