Since 2020 the Hamilton Police Service (HPS) has been tracking the race and identity of people involved in use-of-force incidents to expose any racial biases or stereotyping within police services. After three years of collecting the data, the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police now acknowledges that there is a need to reconcile the data […]
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie, a dedicated public servant with a rich history at the New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC), has achieved a historic milestone by becoming the second Black woman to be appointed as commissioner in the department’s 128-year history. Maginley-Liddie had previously served as the first deputy commissioner since January 2021, and her promotion […]
The murder of Kempton Howard, a beloved youth worker and basketball coach, continues to haunt his mother, Joan Howard, even 20 years after his tragic death. On a fateful day, Kempton was fatally shot in the hallway outside their ninth-floor apartment in East Toronto. He had just celebrated his 24th birthday and was a promising […]
A Wisconsin pastor accused of sexually exploiting children from Venezuela and Cuba was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison. Cory Herthel, 40, pled guilty in August to one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a child. The church where Herthel served, Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Green Bay, contacted the FBI in May to […]
Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ordered Venezuela to refrain from taking any action that would alter the situation on the ground in the potentially oil-rich territory that is the subject of a border dispute with Guyana, which controls the area. The court did not expressly forbid Venezuela from going ahead […]
The government of Dominica has asked authorities in Canada for assistance in the investigation of the death on the Caribbean island of businessman and philanthropist Daniel Langlois. The bodies of Langlois – a pioneer in 3D animation – and his partner Dominique Marchand, were found on Friday in a burned-out car at the bottom of […]
A 13-year-old Black girl who was wrongly singled out on suspicion of theft by her manager at a Vancouver juice bar has been awarded more than $27,000 in damages for discrimination. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has found that because of her race and sex, the young worker was subjected to a “poisoned” work environment […]
By Lincoln DePradine National Bank of Canada is losing a Black entrepreneur Dr C. Justine Pierre and facing legal action over a cheque the bank withheld, claiming it may be “fraudulent’’. Pierre, an expert in migration and labour market research, is director of Dunn, Pierre, Barnett & Company Canada Ltd., a Black research, human resource […]
Nova Scotia RCMP will apologize to the African Nova Scotian community next year “for the harm caused by the historical use of street checks,” according to a news release issued last week. Community consultations are being organized in African Nova Scotian communities ahead of the apology. One was held last week in Gibson Woods, N.S., […]
A class-action lawsuit has been launched against the Toronto Police Service for the practice of “carding.” It alleges that the practice of randomly stopping people and collecting their information continues to harm marginalized communities. The statement of claim filed on Monday is on behalf of all Black and Indigenous people who have been stopped by […]
