B.C.’s racist past spans many years, many races
ELAINE O’CONNOR THE PROVINCE B.C. historian Henry Yu believes the province’s history of race-based policies is best described with a simple, shocking word: apartheid. “We...Continue Reading »
View ArticleCampaign against racism invites all to raise their hands this Holi
LARISSA CAHUTE VANCOUVER DESI Inspired by India’s Holi festival, which celebrates diversity in an explosion of colour to bring the different races together, a Burnaby-based...Continue Reading »
View ArticleB.C. Muslims plan discussion series on how their community is confronting...
KENT SPENCER VANCOUVER DESI The B.C. Muslim Association wants the larger public to hear its new locally-generated program against violent extremism in religion. Muslim Association...Continue Reading »
View ArticleHonour: In Speaking Truth To Terror
UJJAL DOSANJH SPECIAL TO VANCOUVER DESI Not on two many occasions in my life have I made written speeches. But for the occasion of being...Continue Reading »
View ArticleSpice Sports: Football Champion Bobby Singh – On & Off The Field
GOPI AND THE GORA FOR VANCOUVER DESI TUNE IN TO SPICE SPORTS, M-F, 5-7PM ON SPICE RADIO 1200AM Former BC Lion Bobby Singh was in...Continue Reading »
View ArticleLiberals demand MP Williamson be expelled from Tory caucus over “brown...
THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA – Liberals are demanding that Prime Minister Stephen Harper send a clear signal on racism by expelling an MP from the...Continue Reading »
View ArticleMP Larry Miller apologizes for “stay the hell where you came from” niqab remarks
DANIEL KATZ POSTMEDIA NEWS A Conservative MP from Ontario was forced to backpedal Tuesday after telling a local radio station that if anyone doesn’t want to...Continue Reading »
View ArticleWedding gowns with veils as fraught with chauvinism as niqabs
JENNIFER ALLFORD CALGARY HERALD The first time I saw a woman draped from head to toe in shapeless black cloth, I was pretty sure she...Continue Reading »
View ArticleOpinion: What MP John Williamson really meant by his ‘brown people’ comment
ANDREW COYNE POSTMEDIA NEWS I’d like us to return now to a moment in time, a very precise moment in the recent past. It is...Continue Reading »
View ArticleWhite millennials are only a little bit less racist than their parents (which...
SCOTT CLEMENT WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Racial slurs that have cropped up chants, e-mails and white boards on America’s college campuses have some people worried...Continue Reading »
View ArticleAustralian woman defends Muslim couple from Pakistan, shames racist on video
HINDUSTAN TIMES A young Australian woman has emerged as a hero on social media and in her country after standing up for a Muslim couple...Continue Reading »
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