Quebec’s Ministry of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusiveness faced allegations Tuesday of possible racial profiling and violating the constitutional rights of more than 500 international students whose French skills are the subject of an ongoing probe. Read the rest of this post on the original site at ‘Racialized international students’ targeted …
Quebec’s ombudsman has released a scathing report on the treatment of Inuit in the provincial justice system. She says the detention conditions are “below current standards” and infringe on the constitutional right to human dignity. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Treatment of Inuit in …
Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy nobody talks about. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Overlooked tragedy of Quebec’s aboriginal young …
On April 8, two Islamophobic attacks were carried out in Montreal. In the first case, in the early morning hours, an axe was thrown through a window the Centre communautaire islamique Assahaba with the words “Fuck Liberals” and “we will exterminate Muslims” written on it. Then, later that day, someone …
This week, Pauline Marois’s provincial Parti Quebecois government is set to reveal its proposed Quebec Charter of Values. This will be a set of rules applying to all public employees, including teachers, hospital employees and daycare educators. Ostensibly, the goal of the charter is simple: to establish who is boss …
Well, you know what i think: this is a white stain on the Quebec trade union movement, certainly not the first and certainly not the last. In the present context it is clear that arguing for a “ban on religious symbols” is at best riding the wave of racism for …
Pauline Marois: white woman on a mission On October 18 Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois proposed a new piece of legislation, Bill 195, the “Quebec Identity Act.” This piece of legislation would create two classes of citizen within Quebec. You would have Canadian citizens, and then within this group you …
In regards to the latest comments from my comrade Nicolas, regarding the racist “reasonable accommodation debate”… There are two very important questions here. We have to deal with both of them, but in order to not get tripped up i think we need to separate them first. The first question …