Racist taunts recently directed at a black hockey player were unacceptable and should not be tolerated, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said on Wednesday, February 27, 2019.
Some Canadian authors believe students should be able to see their identities reflected in the stories they learn about in English class, and they applauded an Ontario school board for making that a priority.
A fresh look at Canada's ability to defend against possible online threats to the next national election will among a new federal cybersecurity centre's first tasks.
Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta always thought it was wrong that there was no code of conduct for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body that oversees the Oscars, especially when it came to sexual misconduct.
For Jagmeet Singh, Canada’s newly-elected NDP leader, the biggest challenge of the 2019 election may be proving that he can withstand a dog-whistle campaign, says former MP Laurin Liu.
British Columbia's NDP government is bringing back the province's human rights commission, which was scuttled by the previous Liberal regime in 2002 in favour of a complaint-driven tribunal.
A May report in the online version of Policy Options magazine estimates just one per cent of Canada's 2,160 judges in the provincial courts are aboriginal, while three per cent are racial minorities.
After months of calls from advocates for a clearer picture of who is contracting COVID-19 and how it affects them, the Public Health Agency of Canada is still looking into the possibility of collecting more demographic data related to the disease.