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BCRC Weekly Update for the week of June 10, 2019
 
The Weekly Update presents information on the status, needs and priorities of the English Speaking Black Communities.
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Celebrating Black Grads.
McGill University.
Help us commemorate the current and historical successes of Black McGillians through Black Grad, a special event for McGill’s Black community.

Anglo groups condemn Roberge for making school transfer announcement on French radio.
Global News. June 11, 2019.
Anglophone community groups were swift to condemn the education minister Tuesday – not only on his decision to transfer three English schools into the French system, but in the way he made the announcement.

Bill 21 is a case of systemic racism.
Concertation Table against systemic racism. June 13, 2019.
The CAQ government is legislating discrimination in the name of secularism. Opinion by Concertation Table against systemic racism.
 
 
Black community demands apology from Meehan.
CBC News. June 7, 2019.
Some members of Ottawa's black community are demanding an apology after Coun. Carol Anne Meehan abruptly left a consultation session about the city's new chief of police. 

Queen's University Introduces Fund To Address Century-Old Racist Admissions Policy.
ByBlacks.com. June 12, 2019.
The university introduced the ban on black medical students in 1918 and enforced it until 1965. But the policy remained on the books until last fall, when cultural studies doctoral candidate Edward Thomas called for a formal repeal. Queen’s officially revoked the ban in October and issued a formal apology in April. The faculty of health sciences also struck a commission on black medical students to redress harms of the ban.

 
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