Montreal, April 4, 2017 — Several victims of campus sexual harassment have encountered another systemic obstacle in their efforts to seek protection and pursue their studies: the inadequate support given by the administration to their academic needs.

Montreal, April 5, 2017 — CRARR has been mandated by Ms. Adrienne Charles, the Black mother of two young boys at McCaig Elementary School in Rosemere who were victims of several acts of racial harassment since the Fall of 2016, to bring her case to the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission.

Montreal, March 21, 2017 — The Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission released last week a decision that deals a serious blow to the tens of thousands of immigrants who, as a result, may now face more racial and ethnic discrimination.

Montreal, March 9, 2017 — The omission from their collective agreement of a work-family balance clause for Anglophone teachers in Quebec is considered grossly unfair and discriminatory, said a group of teachers who are calling on their union, the Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers (QPAT), to correct the omission.

Montreal, February 16, 2017 — The Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission has asked the Montreal Police Service (SPVM) and a Black police officer to pay $17,000 in damages to a Black youth who was violently grabbed and thrown off of a bus in Lasalle in February 2009.

Montreal, February 9, 2017 — The sex harassment case involving a former part-time employee at Concordia’s Campus Retail Stores who worked there for two and a half years will proceed to mediation in the next few weeks, as the parties have voluntarily accepted to participate in the process at the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission.

Montreal, February 8, 2017 — The Quebec National Assembly took a giant step forward in the name of hope, inclusion and equality, by appointing Tamara Thermitus President of the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission.

Montreal, February 3, 2017 — Three English-speaking Black women who were violently arrested, detained and fined at La Ronde have lodged complaints of race and gender discrimination against Six Flags, the playground’s owner.

Montreal, February 1st, 2017 — As a result of the United States Government’s restriction on the entry of nationals and refugees from seven Muslim majority countries into the United States, CRARR calls upon Canadian employers, and educational and scientific organizations to take necessary measures to prevent all consequences of primary and secondary discrimination this ban can have on their employees and students.

Montreal, February 2, 2017 — For failing to make any reasonable effort to meet its duty to accommodate, the Université de Montréal has been ordered by the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission to pay $10,000 to a disabled young Arab professional who could not access adapted washrooms at the university.