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Kamloops residential school memorial, May 30th 2021. Image credit: GoToVan/Flickr
Indigenous sovereignty is long overdue
Karl Nerenberg | We have known for decades what it will take to rewrite the future history of Indigenous nations in Canada. When will any government get the courage to take the first step?
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Helyeh Doutaghi (left) and Ashley Courchene (right). Image credit: Doutaghi and Courchene/used with permission.
The shared struggles of Muslim Canadians and Indigenous peoples
Helyeh Doutaghi, Ashley Courchene | The media cycles in which Islamophobic killings crowd out stories about Indigenous children's remains suggests competition among different groups of victims, despite shared root causes.
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RCMP on display at the Calgary Stampede. Image credit: Pikist.
To move forward, Canada must accept truth of its past
Gary Engler | Our country has glorified white male warrior, racist colonialism and participated in it at home and abroad. Our laws, our institutions, our foreign policy, our culture have all been affected by it.
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Two students study at a desk. Image credit: Katerina Holmes/Pexels.
Why we need Africentric education
Minister Faust | How many otherwise bored, overlooked, or alienated African-Canadian kids could teachers inspire if they taught a "Wakanda" curriculum connecting the fictional content to its real-world inspiration?
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Racism's place in Canada
Madiha Syed | When will my hijab be the symbol of peace it is meant to be rather than a target for hateful people?
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The London, Ontario vigil in memory of the Afzaal family. Image credit: Andrea Horwath/Used with permission.
The melting pot or the mosaic
Rick Salutin | Can you build a national identity around having no one national identity?
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Canadian flag at half-mast. Image credit: Ruth Hartnup/Flickr
Canada is still in denial about Islamophobia
Monia Mazigh | The core narrative remains untouched: Canada is a polite and compassionate country; we don't do these things at home; we are shocked by these acts of violence.
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Justin Trudeau attends a vigil for the Afzaal family. Image credit: Justin Trudeau/Twitter.
Canadian government behind on anti-Islamophobia action
Karl Nerenberg | In New Zealand the government set up a royal commission after a gunman shot 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, in March 2019. Canada should do the same.
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London attack evidence of dangerous political and media portrayals of Muslims
Hawa Y. Mire | There is no rationale or explanation good enough. There is no room for condolences without accountability and action.
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Dandelions in field of grass. Image credit: Jan Ledermann/Unsplash
Ode to the adaptable, borderless, resilient dandelion
June Chua | Dandelions traverse the earth. The globe is their realm. At times, they are viewed as foreign. Invasive, threatening and alien to the carefully curated spaces seen as proper and acceptable.
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Ignoring and taunting Indigenous patients is not an inevitable outcome of busy hospitals and overworked staff
Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Christa Big Canoe, Josée G. Lavoie | Joyce Echaquan's experience of overt racism cannot be attributed to an isolated incident. Nor can it be acceptable that staff are too busy to meet their professional obligations.
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Neighbourhod burned down following Tulsa race massacre. Image credit: evening public ledger/Wikimedia Commons
Reparations are long overdue for Tulsa massacre
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was one of the single greatest acts of racist terrorism in U.S. history.
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