diversity

Image of the Week: The chief of defence staff tweeted an uplifting message about the military’s drive for inclusiveness. The photo he included told a different story.

Twenty-four years ago, the nation was unwilling to hear the Olympic hero’s message. It matters more than ever as Canadians finally confront their country’s own racist history. “We can’t afford to blow this moment,” he says.

The hockey commentator made bigoted remarks on national television. What else is new? Here’s what Canadians had to say.

Ishani Nath: Jagmeet Singh is Canada’s first non-white leader of a major political party—yet reporters are still mispronouncing his name

Christina Gonzales: The reporting of Trudeau’s blackface shed light on one of Canada’s biggest diversity challenges—there aren’t enough people of colour in journalism

Scott Gilmore: It’s been a pretty good ride and the authors of our long-delayed demise will likely be two of the whitest and most mediocre of us all

Response to Maxime Bernier has been heated, but a cooler look at research offers better grounds for not fretting about multiculturalism

Opinion: Bernier’s warning about ‘radical multiculturalism’ has outraged Canadians, including fellow Tories—and will test Scheer’s leadership of the post-Harper Conservative Party

Andrew MacDougall: The PM called for political diversity. It would help if he could point to one instance where he’s taken his own advice.

We live in the golden age of diversity and inclusion, yet so many still feel so excluded. How did we arrive in this place, and where do we go now?

Frank Vettese, chief executive of Deloitte Canada, on recognizing his own biases and how he can lead a revolution from within

In defence of Hal Niedzviecki, top Canadian journalists crowd-funded an ‘appropriation prize’—a gut punch for a person of colour in media