Montreal, August 27, 2014 --- The racial profiling case involving Black Montrealer Farid Charles will be heading to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, since the City of Montreal has refused to heed the Quebec Human Rights Commission’s call to compensate Mr. Charles for violating his civil rights.

Montreal, August 15, 2014 ---After three years of investigating complaints filed by CRARR on behalf of five Haitian security guards at a federal immigration detention center in Laval, Que., the Canadian Human Rights Commission has ruled that the case warrants an inquiry by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

Montreal, July 31, 2014 --- Three women live-in caregivers from the Philippines sharing similar experiences of discrimination and exploitation in Montreal through their contracts of employment and housing agreements with a live-in caregiver recruitment agency, may have to wait longer to obtain protection and compensation from the Quebec justice system.

Montreal, July 24, 2014 ---In what is a rare case of same-religion discrimination, a Jewish employee has taken legal action against his Jewish employer for restricting his right to work on Saturdays and then for firing him after he complained about this unfair rule.

Montreal, July 16, 2014 --- CRARR welcomes the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal's decision, rendered last month, on racial harassment and discrimination directed at a Black couple in a North-end district of Montreal, in which the court awarded $30,000 in moral damages to the couple, Stephane Ferrier and Marie-Paule Colin.

Montreal, June 27, 2014 --- In a decision which could significantly limit Anglophone Quebecers’ rights, Quebec’s Police Ethics Commissioner affirmed that “in Québec, the official working language is French and that, therefore, a peace officer is under no legal obligation to communicate with a citizen in English while in performance of his or her police duties.”

Montreal, June 18, 2014 --- Mr. Mark Wiles Simpson, the then 19-year-old Black McDonalds’ worker who was violently arrested nearly two years ago by the Montreal Police near Côte-Vertu metro and charged with obstruction of justice in a case of “Any Negro Will Do”, was acquitted two days ago in Montreal Municipal Court.

Montreal, June 17, 2014 --- The City of Montreal and its two police employees must pay a Black Anglophone former teacher from Lasalle $33,000 in moral and punitive damages for racial profiling and subjecting him to an illegal detention and arrest, and the issuance of an abusive fine, stated the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission in a decision released last month.

Montreal, June 5, 2014 --- Another case of mistaken identity in downtown Montreal involving the violent detention of a young disabled Anglophone Black man by Montreal’s police officers highlights once again the safety risks faced by Black men in the city.

Montreal, May 25, 2014 --- The recent violent attack against a Mosque in Montreal’s East end by a man yielding a sabre should be automatically considered a hate-motivated crime and prosecuted as such, according to Bashir Hussain, a CRARR spokesperson.

Montreal, May 21, 2014 --- It is not discriminatory, but only “clumsy” for a police officer during a routine traffic stop to ask an Anglophone Black woman driving a BMW “How long have you lived in Quebec?” and to tell her three times “You’re in Quebec! You should speak French.”

The Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission came to that conclusion in a recent decision that dismissed a racial profiling complaint.