On October 16, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. The book examines developments contributing to ongoing conflicts between law enforcement officials in Toronto and the city's African Canadian community and features a history of racial profiling in Canada, U.S. and the U.K., as well as ongoing efforts to reduce and eliminate racial profiling in domestic law enforcement. Listen to Charles C. Smith discuss the book here!

Also featured at the book launch were Dr. Monia Mazigh, Faisal Kutty, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Dr. Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Author of Canada's Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century, Karl Flecker, Canadian Labour Congress, and Dr. Carol Tator, York University. Check out these podcasts here.