Abid Jan To develop effective municipal CSWB plans, it’s essential to understand the objectives behind them. Historically, research and community safety experts have worked to ensure community safety and well-being from two…
Tamba-Kuii Bailey,Associate Professor at the University of North Dakota, makes an interesting observation about systemic racism. “You don’t see it,” Bailey says. “We don’t see air. For fish and other things swimming…
Could systemic racism be dismantled by implementing small changes? Is the violence against persons of color easily solvable? How can society transform through choices a few people make every day? What small…
Of course, representation matters and the business case for diversity is strong. However, recent studies caution that representation without structural changes to office culture, including creating platforms for underrepresented decision-makers, can lead…
Just came across the website of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). The balanced approach under “Social Justice and Democracy” is impressive: Unlike the criticism of the social justice movement that we started…
Racism actively contributed to the development of our systems of ownership, employment, health care, education, and nearly every other aspect of our lives. History has taught us that eliminating discriminatory laws alone…
It’s good news for folks busy in social impact work to know that building equity is now the centre of attention and an international priority for action (https://lnkd.in/eAzWQrfJ). There are a FEW…
Hats off to OPH. GREAT job, OPH, for tackling the issue head-on. Not an easy task to turn things around when a report presented to the board said: “every racialised staff member…
It’s time to act. Merely talking and thinking about racial justice is not enough. Racism doesn’t just hurt black and other racial minorities; it hurts everyone. Heather McGhee draws on a wealth…
Increasingly, funders who consider themselves “progressive” are leaning into social justice frameworks in their grantmaking. But what does that mean, and how can foundations adopt social justice philanthropy practices more intentionally? Social…
Sadly, we talk about products more than the values we stand for – not just in the business world but also in the non-profit world. For example, some of us still believe…
In this interview author of The Anti-Racist Organization argues that diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are used to perpetuate systemic racism. Shereen Denials maintains that vague platitudes about inclusion and belonging without…
Time is changing. In a few decades, things that we consider as normal today would change considerably. What we hear in reports like the one by MUHU would soon become shameful practices…
British Columbia’s new anti-racism data act will help fight systemic racism We need similar legislation in every province to fundamentally change government and community development programs and services in by removing long-standing…
This is the right call because this is one of the effective ways to combat various forms of extremist moments. Combating disinformation is the key. The extremists use social media, chatrooms, and websites…
Canadian armed forces are not alone. Right-wing extremism has, for a long while, been resurgent all over Canada. Still, it has mainly gone unattended compared to the prominent focus on the likes…
Abid Jan Director Capacity Building at United Way East Ontario 6 articles April 25, 2022 All forms of bigotry are not alike. The roots of each form of discrimination and hatred are…
We have so much to learn from others’ good work without reinventing the wheel. Thanks to Covid, since the pandemic, there has been an encouraging focus on equitable economic recovery. However, this…
Some of us wrongly interpret systemic racism as an accusation that everyone in the system is racist. Systemic racism means almost the opposite. It means that we have systems and institutions that…
Chief Sloly responded well to the question about systemic racism. The reality is that those within OPS and outside who claim there is no systemic racism represent a denial of institutional-based racism,…
The truth about systemic racism is not easy to communicate to many. One of the great nineteenth-century English philosophers of liberty and opponents of African slavery, John Stuart Mill, once put it…
What looks and feels normal during a particular age is not always normal. The inequity in Ottawa took me on a journey into the past. What I came to know made me…
Well said, Minister Patty Hajdu: “Racism is not an accident. The system is not broken. It was created this way.” Here is a lesson for those who deny systemic Racism. Systemic Racism…
Many of us have this misunderstanding that White Supermacy is a recent phenomenon that came to light with Oklahoma City bombing and got a shot in the arm with Trump’s election, and…