Posted: Feb 04, 2021 4:48 PM ET | Last Updated: February 4
HWDSB trustees Alex Johnstone, Becky Buck, Kathy Archer and Carole Paikin Miller are facing calls for their resignation after they were named in a third-party report.(HWDSB)
A former student trustee is calling for the removal of four Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) trustees after a report concluded some made racist comments and others silenced her.
And the province has called the report deeply disturbing.
Ahona Mehdi says the trustees should be held accountable after a third-party report said they made comments like all lives matter, and made overtly anti-Muslim and racist remarks.
Hamilton City Hall in Hamilton, Ontario. Photo credit: Montrealais / Wikimedia Commons.
A group of rabbis in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario have issued a statement of solidarity with a local councillor who received two racist, threatening phone calls in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Nrinder Nann a councillor representing Hamilton’s Ward 3 told her colleagues on Wednesday that a “disgruntled white resident” had left the offending voicemails warning that the violence witnessed in the US would erupt in Canada.
The caller threatened to incarcerate Black people, whom he labeled as “criminals,” in a container with the aid of handcuffs, zip ties and a machete.