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A Zoom event on Jan. 20 for Black students at Dalhousie University was interrupted by unknown people who made racist and homophobic comments. The school is actively trying to identify those involved. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
An online social event for Black students at Dalhousie University in Halifax was hijacked Wednesday by people who hurled racist and homophobic comments at participants.
OmiSoore Dryden, who organized the event, called it a co-ordinated attack as several people tried to gain access to the Zoom session, which was supposed to be a place where Black medical and health profession students could talk about their studies and support one another.
Racialized Canadians who could bring diversity to the country’s Order of Canada in the future include, top row, from left, Murray Sinclair, Afua Cooper, Winnie Ng, Adelle Blackett, Lynn Jones, Vivek Shraya, Debbie Douglas; middle row, from left, Akua Benjamin, Maryka Omatsu, Baldev Mutta, Avvy Go, Paul Taylor, OmiSoore Dryden, Amy Go; bottom row, from left, Alan Tai-Wai Li, Susan Eng, M. NourbeSe Philip, Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Angela Marie Macdougall, Gary Yee and Ingrid Waldron.
Toronto Star Composite Earlier this week, the BlackNorth Initiative made a point that seemingly too few people had realized: the 114 people named to the Order of Canada this year were overwhelmingly white and men.