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Diversity and Education: Half of Canadian kids witness ethnic, racial bullying at their school

However, majority ambivalent towards classmates wearing different clothes, eating different foods October 19, 2021 – As Canada grows and changes, becoming more diverse every year, new generations of children are immersed in a reality that can look far different than that of their parents or grandparents. And while diversity in schools is largely an accepted and comfortable fact of life…

Diversity and Racism in Canada: Competing views deeply divide country along gender, generational lines

One-third say Canada is a ‘racist’ country; 12 per cent believe some races are superior to others June 21, 2021 – These are times of deep reckoning over issues of race and identity, hatred, and violence in Canada. Against the backdrop of the London, ON, attack that targeted and killed a Muslim family, the deep pain associated with revelations about…

Anti-Asian Discrimination: Younger Canadians most likely to be hardest hit by experiences with racism, hate

Most say it will take generational change for anti-Asian prejudice to subside June 8, 2021 – As a nation eagerly looks to the weeks and months ahead to regain a closer semblance to their pre-pandemic lives, they are far more pessimistic about the timelines associated with eliminating one of the ugly by-products of COVID-19: an intensification of anti-Asian discrimination in…