Posted: May 01, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 1
When Audette Shephard’s 19-year-old son Justin was murdered on June 23, 2001, she says Toronto police offered little in the way of emotional support. (CBC)
When Audette Shephard s 19-year-old son Justin was shot and killed on June 23, 2001, she says she was left alone with her grief and in her despair even contemplated suicide. I can t even explain the devastation. I just didn t know where to turn, she said, adding that Toronto police offered little in the way of emotional support. It would have been helpful not to just leave me alone. Because god knows what I could ve done. The 20th-floor balcony looked really good at the time.
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Posted: Apr 25, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 25
Anti-racism demostrators take a knee near Toronto Police Headquarters during a march on Saturday, June 6, 2020. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
Advocates for Black, Chinese, South Asian and other racialized Canadians say the federal budget takes a number of positive steps toward building a more inclusive country, but more work needs to be done to address systemic racism in Canada.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the Liberal government s first budget in two years on Monday. The budget proposes massive amounts of spending to contend with the uneven impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and pledges to create a million jobs within a year by funding an inclusive, equitable economic recovery.
Posted: Apr 08, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 8
Marchers walk through downtown Montreal carrying signs denouncing racism against Asians and commemorating the victims of a shooting in Atlanta that left six Asian-American women dead.(Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
Advocates for Asian Canadians are calling for improvements to the federal government s anti-racism strategy to confront a surge in anti-Asian racism.
Avvy Go, executive director of the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic in Toronto, said the strategy failed to specifically mention anti-Asian racism in its
foundational policy document. The document does cite anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as key targets.
Canadienses de origen asiático ven fallas en la estrategia contra el racismo rcinet.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rcinet.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.