Quebec's third-largest English school board, whose vast territory includes the Mohawk community at the centre of the 1990 Oka Crisis, invited filmmaker Tracey Deer to share her childhood experience of that conflict with educators, who will share it in turn with students and colleagues.
Mother takes school board to Quebec Human Rights Tribunal for refusing to pay damages for racist behaviour
Three years after filing a complaint with Quebec s Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission, Adrienne Charles says her son still faces bullying and racial slurs at school daily.
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3 years after filing human rights complaint, mother says son is still dealing with racial slurs at school
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 12:47 PM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Adrienne Charles says her sons, aged 8 and 11, were regularly called the N-word at their Rosemère elementary school for years. (Submitted by Adrienne Charles)
A Terrebonne mother is taking the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board to Quebec s Human Rights Tribunal, after it refused to pay her the $30,000 in damages the Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission ordered it to pay.