Browsing: Black Canadians

Quebec’s police ethics tribunal found two Sûreté du Québec officers discriminated against Leslie Blot because of his race during a 2020 stop. Suspensions of 35 and 20 working days were reported Oct. 15.

Carrie Best’s Clarion, launched in New Glasgow, N.S., in 1946, printed Viola Desmond’s story. Only 33 issues are known to survive in the provincial archives.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission found Toronto police charged Black people at 3.9 times the white rate from 2013 to 2017, and urged binding remedies.

In December 1995 the House of Commons unanimously recognized February as Black History Month, on a motion from Jean Augustine, the first Black woman elected to it.

Halifax bulldozed Africville between 1964 and 1969, then apologized in 2010. The record shows what was promised, what was paid and what the city rebuilt.

In 1946 Viola Desmond was convicted of cheating Nova Scotia out of one cent. The record, a narrow appeal and a 2010 pardon show how the law sidestepped race.

In 1849 a Presbyterian minister began selling 50-acre lots to Black settlers near Lake Erie. The rules, the school and the 70 Civil War enlistments of Buxton.

Ottawa is replacing short-term grants to Black-led organizations with permanent funding, unveiling $135.7 million over five years at a Winnipeg summit.

Nearly half of Black women, girls and gender-diverse people in Canada have delayed or avoided seeking health care out of…

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