Quebec’s Human Rights Commission is suing the City of Terrebonne and its police force for stopping a Black man more than a dozen times without valid reason when he was driving.
There are 238 local police officers in Saguenay, and only one is not white. Last spring, the police service was tasked with hiring 15 new officers, but only 10 were brought into the fold.
Tenants in some of Montreal s co-ops say they ve noticed a concerted effort by their board of directors to bar certain types of people from moving into their buildings.
MONTREAL Multiple residents living in Montreal s co-ops, some of whom have resided there for years, are claiming they are the victims of racism and discrimination by their neighbours and nothing is being done to protect them.
CO-OP MILTON PARC Sascha Astles has lived with her family at the Coopérative d habitation Milton Parc, near McGill University, since 2009. She says it didn t take long for significant signs of racism to rear their ugly heads, including members of her family being called the N word. My name was written Sascha Caribbean in the minutes of a meeting, she told CTV News. Prior to that, it was Sascha Antilles, like the island. It was giggled off as a typo at the time.