In our second season, as we live through what feels like the world falling apart, we’re focusing on imagining a better future together.
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We’re launching the second season of Don’t Call Me Resilient, our podcast that takes on systemic racism and the ways it permeates our everyday lives.
Amaka Umeh as Helena in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the Stratford Festival 2021.
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Theatre and performing arts practitioners, organizations and educators in Victoria and Regina are partnering to create opportunities for BIPOC artists and cultural administrators.
Mary Simon is an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat. She has been named as Canada’s next governor general — the first Indigenous person to serve in the role.
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Being Canada’s next governor general will be Mary Simon’s most challenging diplomatic mission yet.
Medical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccines need to be matched with programs that tackle health inequality.
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Medical innovations paired with innovative programs to get them to Black, Indigenous and Hispanic Americans can help close the health inequality gap.
Green spaces are inequitably distributed across cities: The quality and quantity are lower in racialized neighbourhoods.
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Green spaces can be part of the plan to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19. But city officials and policy-makers must address systemic racism for urban green spaces to benefit public health.
People embrace in front of the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill at a memorial for the 215 children whose remains were found at the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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A commitment to eliminating racism must be reflected in accountability mechanisms that focus on the impacts of coordinated and consistent anti-racist action.
About one-third of homes in Puerto Rico were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
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Social inequalities worsen storm damage and challenge disaster recovery, increasing class divides over time.
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Just as BLM is forcing a reckoning with systemic racism, there is new attention being paid to the origins of the Palestinians’ struggles.
Indigenous women are insisting upon a broadening of policies that facilitate safety and justice for all women.
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A documentary series aimed to spark national conversation about criminalising coercive control. However, it highlighted power imbalances in conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women.
This May, people across Canada will be asked to fill out the 2021 census.
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As the conversation about race and diversity becomes more common, why haven’t we updated our census to reflect that?
Mural by Gabriel Marques, Dublin.
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It took black folk unimaginable resources of creativity, humanity, humour and generosity to detoxify the N-word for their own collective sanity.
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Workplace bullying and harassment has many guises. Sometimes, it is gendered. Sometimes it is racist. For women of colour, it’s often both.
While mental health check-ins are important, there is more we can do.
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In the wake of anti-Asian violence in North America, we need to demand accountability and not just stop after performing mental health check-ins.
By identifying the need to tackle systemic discrimination instead of colonialism, Trudeau is reinforcing an established idea in Canadian politics: that colonialism is history.
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Narratives that historicize colonialism are not new. Canadians and our leaders have a long history of denying our settler colonial present.
Unemployed Blackjewel coal miners, their family members and activists man a blockade along railroad tracks leading to their old mine on Aug. 23, 2019, in Cumberland, Kentucky.
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The quest for significance and respect is a universal part of human nature. It has the potential to inspire great works – but lately, it has been much in evidence tearing society apart.
What can be done to overcome systemic racial inequalities in the education system?
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Transcript of Don’t Call Me Resilient, Episode 3.
COVID-19 has highlighted longstanding racial inequalities in the education system. Educators say there is a way forward and out of this.
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Carl James and Kulsoom Anwer discuss the injustices and inequalities in the Canadian education system.
People of color say they want office allies who offer honest feedback.
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Some people wonder what they can do to support Black colleagues and junior employees who face institutional discrimination at work and elsewhere.
Kenyan artist Allan Mwangi paints a mural of George Floyd in Kibera, Nairobi.
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Racism affects health and often leads to early death. We now know in greater and more alarming detail how this happens.
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Participants in our study — all highly skilled Black African professionals — reported feeling work was a site of constant surveillance and scrutiny, where their competence was often questioned.