Diversity Thunder Bay Letter of Support for Federal Basic Income Pilot Project
Letter of Support for Federal Basic Income Pilot Project – March 2021
Read MoreComing Together To Talk with Youth -A Community Conversation of Hope, April 2019
It is with great excitement that the Organizing Committee for “Coming Together to Talk with Youth – A Community Conversation of Hope” presents this report. The event took place on April 30, 2019 at Lakehead University, bringing together students from Lakehead Public Schools and Thunder Bay Catholic School Boards, Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, and...
Read MoreDiversity in Policing
In 2001 Diversity Thunder Bay hired Randy Haluza Delay to do a study about racism. Through the study, A Community Of Acceptance (ACOA), respondents reported that police were one of the top social locations where racism occurred in Thunder Bay. In response to the findings from ACOA and other reports on police relationships with racialized...
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Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities face racism in Thunder Bay, according to a new study issued by Diversity Thunder Bay. Racism has a significant impact on social cohesion in Thunder Bay, hindering cooperation, quality of life, and participation by various population sectors. Most of the racializing takes the form of subtle and marginalizing social practices...
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