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Long Before Don Cherry, Race in the Rink was part of Canada’s Hockey History

The experiences of these pioneering players were universal for any racialized player in the league at the time

Books

Finding Mr. Wong: A Tale from Canada’s Exclusion Era

NCM Anonymous June 1, 2019 No Comments Canada Canadian Authors Canadian Pacific Railway CHINA Chinese head tax discrimination exclusion act Immigration Susan Crean

By Susan Crean in Toronto, ON The story of Chinese immigration to Canada is best known for two things. First, the arrival of Chinese labourers…

Arts & Culture Top Stories

The Future is Female

Isabel Inclan March 9, 2019 No Comments discrimination empowering women gender equality inequality International Women's Day sexual harassment women's rights

by Isabel Inclan in Toronto, ON With pink hats, defiant banners and loud voices thousands of women took to Toronto streets this Saturday to commemorate…

Commentary

Closing the Immigrant Wage Gap: Is Speaking English Important?

NCM Anonymous October 27, 2017 No Comments Calgary census discrimination diversity English Immigration language The Conversation University of Calgary wage workplace

Commentary by: Arvind Magesan in Calgary, AB Statistics Canada has released new data from the 2016 census that shows more than any other G8 country,…

Economy

Looking Beyond the Name on a Resumé

NCM Anonymous March 10, 2017 No Comments discrimination employment GDX hiring hiring bias HR Omidvar RBC resume Ryerson University University of Toronto

Commentary by Vivian Li in Toronto, ON In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare gave us the famous line “What is in a name? That which we call…

Commentary

Trump and the Rise of Islamophobia

Surjit Singh Flora February 21, 2017 No Comments Brampton discrimination Donald Trump ISIL ISIS Islamophobia Muslims racism Surjit Singh Flora Trump

Commentary by Surjit Singh Flora in Brampton I believe it is fair to say that since 9-11, Islamophobia has been on the rise in North…

Books

Football Legend’s Story Teaches Timely Lessons

NCM Anonymous September 6, 2016 No Comments African Canadians AfricanAmerican books Canada 150 Children discrimination football Quebec City racism Rosanna Haroutounian segregation sports United States

by Rosanna Haroutounian in Quebec City Racial profiling by police is not a new phenomenon. The ability to now document aggression by law enforcement against…

Books

Story Revisits Vietnamese Revenge Plot of 1908

Tazeen Inam August 4, 2016 No Comments books Canada 150 Colonization discrimination French IndoChina literature Mississauga oppression Saigon Tazeen Inam Vietnamese Vietnamese Canadian

by Tazeen Inam in Mississauga Many leaders of the East who fought to decolonize their countries from Western authoritarian rule were also educated in the…