racism

In a photo illustration, a man wearing a suit holds up a child in a black-and white photograph. The background is made up of scraps of documents, some handwritten, others typed.

March/April 2025 / Memoir

Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together

January 27, 2025January 28, 2025 - by Timothy Taylor

How 10,000 pages of documents sent me on a journey through Germany’s dark past

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Health

To Get into Medical School, I Thought I’d Have to Hide Parts of My Blackness

October 14, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Chika Stacy Oriuwa

But then came a question I wasn’t prepared for

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Books / November 2024

The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design

August 14, 2024August 19, 2024 - by Tajja Isen

The publishing industry’s troubling reliance on visual stereotypes

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Current Affairs

“It’s Like a Cult”: Breaking Free from the Far Right

May 27, 2024May 27, 2024 - by Timothy Cooke

A Toronto man’s journey from hate group “rally boy” to anti-fascism

An illustration of a Chinese-Canadian family: A mother, a father, and two kids stand around their seated grandparents. A Chinese-style building partition is in the foreground with symbols of Chinese-Canadian history on it, including an old family portrait and an immigration certificate. In the back is a window facing the Vancouver skyline.

Memoir

100 Years after the Exclusion Act, Chinese Canadians like Me Still Question Their Belonging

June 28, 2023May 21, 2024 - by Adrian Ma

Searching for the sense of identity I had lost during the pandemic, I needed my family to see where our Canadian story began

A mishmash of limbs performing martial arts on a red background. Three Asian men at the front push a boulder, referencing the struggle of Sisyphus.

January/February 2023 / Memoir

What My Father’s Martial Arts Classes Taught Me about Fighting Racism

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 - by Adrian De Leon

The goal of martial arts is self-defence. But what happens when the violence is as atmospheric as racism itself?

November 2022 / Society

Comment la commission des droits de la personne du Québec a chassé sa première présidente noire

October 25, 2022May 29, 2023 - by Martin Patriquin

Lorsqu’elle a été nommée à la tête de la commission, Tamara Thermitus s’attendait à lutter contre le racisme dans sa province. Au lieu de cela, elle a dû s’en occuper sur son lieu de travail.

Photo of Tamara Thermitus standing beside a stone wall.

November 2022 / Society

How Quebec’s Human Rights Commission Drove Out Its First Black Female President

October 25, 2022October 26, 2022 - by Martin Patriquin

When she was appointed to run the commission, Tamara Thermitus expected to fight racism in her province. Instead, she had to deal with it in her workplace