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Former staff says racism and sexual harassment are rampant at the Royal Canadian Mint According to several former employees interviewed by CBC News, female security guards at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa often face sexual harassment and racial ridicule, and their superiors either stand by or join in. The former staff said that the white protection service staff used the N word for black colleagues, calling them slaves and comparing a woman to a chimpanzee, while another former female employee said she was often sexually harassed. They say that sexism, harassment and racism drive them to quit their jobs and give up their dreams of entering law enforcement. ....
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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. ....
The report outlines other incidents, including the following chain of events involving discussions over a police school liason program in Hamilton: When Mehdi wanted to prepare a motion to terminate the police liaison program in mid-June 2020, she was asked to do so under the supervision of that same trustee, as well as a staff member, which is inconsistent with the autonomy the student trustee holds as a member of the board representing student interests, the report says.
When that motion was ready, despite insufficient governance, training or guidance provided to Mehdi, the trustee would not accept it because it was late, even though she would have had enough support to submit it, it says. ....