Reality of Anti-Black Racism in Canada
https://www.bcg.com/en-ca/publications/2020/reality-of-anti-black-racism-in-canada
Welfare in Canada Update
Welfare in Canada update now available Today, Maytree is releasing the latest Welfare in Canada report showing the total income households on social assistance would have received in 2019 (i.e., their income from social assistance alongside tax credits and child...
We Commit to Action on Anti-Black Racism
Women’s Housing Need & Homelessness in Canada
The Homeless Hub, in partnership with Women's National Housing & Homelessness Network, Keepers of the Circle and Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, have released a Literature Review on the State of Women's Housing Need and Homelessness in Canada. Click the...
CAFCAN Board Response to COVID and Anti-Black Racism
Friends and Colleagues, The events of the past 3 months, COVID-19, and the continued blatant and unjust systemic practices of anti-black racism, has placed increasing pressures on members of our Afrikan community. COVID-19 has disproportionately and significantly...
RU:Listening! Black People Speak! Politicians Listen!
A New Normal
About Kwame McKenzie Dr. Kwame McKenzie is CEO of the Wellesley Institute. He is an international expert on the social causes of mental illness, suicide and the development of effective, equitable health systems. As a physician, psychiatrist, researcher and policy...
Angles Covered
Canadian Government Remains Committed to Decade for People of African Descent By Neil Armstrong The federal government has reaffirmed its commitment to the spirit of the International Decade for People of African Descent by including it in the mandate letters of some...
Write Thinking
Research and literature show that any interventions designed to address the long standing and current challenges that Blacks experience, must be culturally safe and relevant. They must come from a place of understanding of the Black experience and in particular the...
Canadian Government Throws Support Behind an Institute for Black Canadians
The federal government supports the creation of a national institute for Black Canadians, an idea proposed by a pan-Canadian group of Black organizations. In its presentation of the 2019 budget in March, the government noted that in recognition of the United Nations...