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2 天之前 · Stingers battle tough competition in Concordia Classic tournament. Despite a strong opening win, the Stingers struggled with consistency and defensive lapses against strong opposition in the Men’s Basketball Concordia Classic Tournament. Since 1980, The Link has been the most read newspaper on Concordia's campuses and the areas surrounding ...
Canada has a rampant South Asian racism problem | News
2024年9月17日 · A spike in racism towards South Asians has been seen in Canada this year. Graphic Myriam Ouazzani. There has been a steady rise in racism towards South Asian communities in Canada over the past couple of years, and one of the main culprits might be social media. This year, xenophobia can largely be traced down to anti-immigration rhetoric being ...
How Indigenous Runner Tom Longboat Trailblazed His Way To …
2023年3月7日 · He went on to win the Boston Marathon in 1907, breaking the two-hour 29-minute record set six years prior. However, his success was always overshadowed by his status as an Indigenous person. Longboat could never seem to get rid of the racist denominations that were imputed to him. Following his triumph in Boston, one newspaper complimented ...
Fighting back against transphobic movements in Montreal
2024年9月17日 · How is the Montreal community fighting back? In retaliation for this year’s 1 Million March 4 Children protest in Montreal, queer and trans rights advocates like Trianon have been spreading the word about a counter-protest also taking place on Sept. 20. Faction Anti Génocidaire et Solidaire—a queer collective focused on “denouncing ...
Reviving the cultural tradition of tattooing Indigenous communities
2021年1月13日 · How Indigenous women are reclaiming the art of traditional tattooing. Special Issue Esteban Cuevas — Published January 13, 2021 6 minutes. “It was overwhelming.”. This is how Ashley Appaqaq, an Inuk woman and traditional tattoo artist living in Iqaluit, Nunavut, describes how she felt when she first received her first traditional tattoo.
Filipino history lessons taught through food | Special Issue
2020年11月3日 · A pre-colonial Philippines. Like many Asian countries, rice is the foundation to the Filipino food pyramid. The staple crop was brought over to Cagayan Valley, the north-most point of the Philippines, during an Indo-Malaysian, Chinese, and Vietnamese wave of migration in around 3400 BC. Over 3000 years later, give or take a few hundred, China ...
Three Decades of the Raging Grannies: Singing, Blockading, …
2023年2月21日 · For more than three decades, the Montreal Raging Grannies have been a fixture among the city’s activists, taking part in government hearings, marching in protests, blocking entrances to corporate banks—all while singing against what they consider conservative policies. The gaggle of Grannies, as they refer to themselves, say their work is ...
Indigenous Imagery and Sports: It’s Time For Change
2018年10月26日 · Aggressiveness is a big part of the stereotyping of Indigenous people in sports; it’s why so many teams are named “Chiefs,” “Braves,” or “Warriors.”. Despite all of this, besides a little negative buzz from when the Cataractes hosted the Memorial Cup in 2012, as well as a particularly out of touch media campaign in 2015 that ...
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Being honest about our biases makes for better journalism
2021年12月8日 · In a 2021 report on media credibility among Canadians, 49 per cent of those surveyed agreed that journalists and reporters are “purposely trying to mislead people.”. In the same survey, 52 per cent agreed that most news organizations are “more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than informing the public.”.