Reading Time: 3 minutes This isn’t a time for Canadians to be segregating each other, or rushing to put themselves and their neighbours into hyphenated categories
Tag: Discrimination
Committed citizens can change the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes While Colin Kaepernick still doesn’t have a job in the NFL, history suggests his protest for minority rights will ultimately be successful
Hasty conclusions about the past can result in lost opportunities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Monuments often reveal important stories, but can gloss over details. Unless we examine the facts closely, we can end up with a sanitized view of history
Bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice
Reading Time: 3 minutes When we’re able to see beyond the lies of hatred, racism and segregation, we see the enriching power of diversity
Statues tell a story that people need to hear
Reading Time: 3 minutes You could fill volumes with the uncomfortable statements uttered in the past by people whom we now revere, from Abraham Lincoln to Mahatma Gandhi
Out of the closet, slowly and cautiously
Reading Time: 3 minutes Britain’s 1957 Wolfenden Report was the first step towards changing legal and social perspectives on homosexuality in the English-speaking world
Laws can reduce bullying and Bill C-16 is needed now
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada needs laws to protect vulnerable transgender youth, who experience bullying at much higher rates than their peers
Trans rights are women’s rights
Reading Time: 4 minutes Transgender women face high rates of physical, sexual and fatal violence. To combat that, human rights must be at the heart of contemporary Canadian feminism
Trans rights are women’s rights
Reading Time: 4 minutes Transgender women face high rates of physical, sexual and fatal violence. To combat that, human rights must be at the heart of contemporary Canadian feminism
No reason why an activist can’t be a columnist
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yes, it’s possible to be a columnist and activist. So why couldn’t the Toronto Star countenance Desmond Cole and his stand on police carding?