Montreal, April 15, 2015 — CRARR strongly supports the application for a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit filed this morning by RAPLIQ, a Montreal-based disabled rights advocacy group, against the Montreal Transit Authority (STM), the City of Montreal, the Metropolitan Transit Agency (MTA) and the provincial Transport Ministry for discrimination in public transit services.

Montreal, April 1st, 2015 — An elected female student executive of the largest student association in Concordia University, has taken two of her fellow male executives and the Association before the Quebec human rights commission for discrimination and harassment based on her race and gender.

The student is a female former Vice-President of the Arts and Science Faculty Association (ASFA), during the one-year mandate in 2013-2014, which she completed.

Montreal, March 25, 2015 — CRARR has received the official mandate from Ms. Lettia McNickle to represent her in a complaint of race and gender discrimination in employment, to be filed with the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission against Madisons New York Grill & Bar, the restaurant chain.

Montreal, March 25, 2015 — The Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission has ruled that there is sufficient evidence of race discrimination in a case involving an English-speaking Black kiosk owner whose lease was terminated by the Galeries Des Sources in 2011 because she failed to comply with the landlord's condition not to carry more than 5% of Black hair products among the merchandise sold at her kiosk.

Montreal, March 19, 2015 — Four Black witnesses who filed complaints of racial bias and other police misconduct are worth less than the reports filed by the two white officers who were implicated in a violent arrest of two Black youths for jaywalking.

Montreal, March 13, 2015 — To celebrate March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimation, CRARR will co-host with different partners two activities on Friday March 20, featuring Mr. Patrick Case, Chairman of the Ontario Human Rights Legal Support Center.

Mr. Case will speak on recent developments on racial discrimination and racial profiling in Ontario, and challenges for victims and advocates in combating racism.

Montreal, May 19, 2015 — The Police Ethics Commissioner has dismissed a Hispanic engineer's complaint against a Sûreté du Québec police officer and his employer over race and language bias, as well as excessive force, during a traffic stop downtown last August.

The case was rejected after an unsuccessful attempt at conciliation.

Montreal, March 10, 2015 — A Chinese resident of Sainte-Julienne, Québec who was a victim of a hit-and-run, and who was denied insurance coverage due to a police report that described him as the author of the accident, has filed a police ethics complaint and a civil rights complaint against the officer.

Montreal, March 9, 2015 — On February 26, 2015, four MNAs from different parties in the National Assembly of Quebec, Maka Kotto, Opposition Critic for Immigration; Christine St-Pierre, Minister of International Relations and responsible for the Francophonie; Sylvie Roy and Amir Khadir, jointly introduced a motion calling on the National Assembly to “affirm its wish that February 11 be proclaimed the Nelson Mandela Day in Quebec.”

Montreal, 9 mars 2015 — Le 26 février 2015 dernier, Maka Kotto, Porte-parole de l'opposition officielle en matière d'immigration conjointement avec Christine St-Pierre, ministre des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie, et les députés Sylvie Roy et Amir Khadir ont déposé une motion qui propose : « que l’Assemblée nationale du Québec exprime le souhait que la journée du 11 février devienne la Journée Nelson Mandela au Québec ».

Montreal, March 6, 2015 — McGill University and a former Director at the Rossy Cancer Network are cited as respondents in two complaints of ethnic discrimination and psychological harassment in employment filed by a Hispanic professional who was terminated and who is fighting for reintegration.