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In the Wake of Injustice: The Congress Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization
Congress 2021 blog edition Members of the Congress Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization met with the academic community to review and reflect on their report and recommendations entitled “Igniting Change.” The...
Performing Narratives of Black Racial Identity in the Digital-Era
Congress 2021 blog edition Playwright, Canadian television broadcaster, and social activist Rita Deverell, from Mount Saint Vincent University, takes her audience through an exploration and reflection of her award-winning play “Who you Callin’ Black...
What Does It Mean to “Flinch from Black Touch?” Dr. Shirley Anne Tate Speaks on Racism in Our Academic Institutions in Big Thinking Session
Congress 2021 blog edition Dr. Shirley Anne Tate has analyzed the effects of institutionalized anti-Black racism for more than a decade. In her Big Thinking series lecture entitled “Racism's touch: 'I can't quite put my finger on it'”, she discussed...
Indigenous-led Conservation: A Pathway to Reconcile with our Indigenous Community
Congress 2021 blog edition In the first of Congress 2021’s Big Thinking series, titled “Yáázǫ Kéorat’ı̨ (We see the daylight),” member of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative The Honorable Ethel Blondin-Andrew shed light on how clean water, good...
Hope for an Unsolvable Social Injustice
Congress 2021 blog edition Congress 2021 has taken off with full force. On Thursday morning, opening keynote speaker Dr. Peter Mackie gave an inspiring talk highlighting how people and relations are key to ending homelessness. Dr. Mackie, Reader at...
Companies Need to Get Off the Defensive When it Comes to Cancel Culture, Researcher Says
Today’s cancel culture has corporations of all sizes reacting quickly to avoid online controversy of any kind. But if they cast their net too wide – implementing broad, defensive policies and regulations designed to protect their brand at all costs –...
Toronto’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Demonstrates Racism is Alive and Well in Canada, Expert Says
If you’re among the one in three Canadians who still don’t believe racism is a serious problem in our country, you don’t have to look further than our response to the COVID-19 pandemic for proof that inequity remains deeply rooted here. Dr Frances...
“The stories came from myself, too.” Markoosie Patsauq and the beginnings of Inuit literature in Canada
National Indigenous Languages Day offers a prime opportunity to talk about the first Indigenous novel ever published in Canada, written by an Inuk whose family was among those forcibly relocated to the High Arctic in 1953, and who helped lead the...
Layerings of risk: researchers document the experiences of racialized communities during COVID-19
While cases of COVID-19 continue to mount around the world, many communities face an additional, more insidious threat: "the virus of racism." Researchers across Canada have been examining the nature of race-based discrimination and its impacts...