Posted: Apr 25, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 25
Anti-racism demostrators take a knee near Toronto Police Headquarters during a march on Saturday, June 6, 2020. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
Advocates for Black, Chinese, South Asian and other racialized Canadians say the federal budget takes a number of positive steps toward building a more inclusive country, but more work needs to be done to address systemic racism in Canada.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the Liberal government s first budget in two years on Monday. The budget proposes massive amounts of spending to contend with the uneven impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and pledges to create a million jobs within a year by funding an inclusive, equitable economic recovery.
University of Toronto community roundtable focuses on anti-Asian racism
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One young journalist s experience writing obituaries for COVID-19 victims
Tess Jieun Ha: Reaching out to people who lost loved ones to COVID-19 was a daunting assignment. But having the opportunity to describe the rich lives of Asian Canadians was an honour. By Tess Jieun Ha Tess Jieun Ha (Photograph by Lucy Lu)
Tess Jieun Ha graduated from multimedia journalism at Seneca College in Toronto. As a Korean Canadian, she wants to share stories from Asian Canadian communities.
“I don’t think that’s respectful for the family members.”
This is the first thing I heard from my very traditional parents when I told them I was writing obituaries of people who had passed away from COVID-19. My journalism class at Seneca College in Toronto was participating in the
“The Chinese flu,” he called it.
It’s this kind of trash, started by former U.S. president Donald Trump, that is feeding the surge in anti-Asian racism in North America and Europe during the pandemic.
Racial slurs, threats, attacks. People of Asian descent being spit on, told to “go home.” Even children and elderly people are targeted, on the street, in grocery stores, on public transit. It has left Asian Canadians fearful for their safety.
Reports by Statistics Canada, the Chinese Canadian National Council and police in multiple cities all document the hate and the hurt.
“The fact is it comes from China,” Vander Doelen told the Windsor Star’s Dave Battagello. He’s just stating the facts, he said, just calling it what it is.