EDITORIAL JULY 4, 2018 Hill Times
The Senate has come a long way since the early 2000s. Back then, Conservative Senator Donald Oliver charged that the Senate’s administration-and the public service, in general-was rife with systemic racism.
“The Senate’s lack …
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By CHARELLE EVELYN FEB. 7, 2018 Hill Times
Three years in, Canada has recognized the UN International Decade for People of African Descent, but didn’t come with an accompanying action plan. But Liberal Black caucus chair Greg Fergus says …
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Don Oliver receives the Canada 150 Medal.
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An article by Don Oliver in the Hill Times.
Overseas volunteers have borne witness to challenges that have a long-term impact on all of us—poverty, sexual violence, the rise of religious fundamentalism, and terrorism. We know the need is great, …
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The federal government should indeed create a Department of African-Canadian Affairs and develop a strategy to address anti-black racism in the criminal justice system
.PUBLISHED : Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 12:00 AM
Donald Oliver says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau …
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By JANE TABER NOV. 9, 2013 Globe and Mail
Donald Oliver is no stranger to public humiliation. Growing up in Nova Scotia, he was punched, bullied, spat on and once had a waiter in Halifax announce that “you niggers can …
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