One of the U.K.'s leading media executives, Ms. Parminder Vir, OBE, will deliver the keynote address at Ryerson Diversity Institute's Roundtable on media. The event will examine issues of diversity in Canada media, including behind-the-camera and on-air diversity; fair access to funding, media policy on diversity, and opportunities and challenges facing film and TV producers of color.

Montreal, November 30, 2011 --- As a result of the Superior Court on November 17 to quash the guilty verdict for Joel Debellefeuille, a Black man who was intercepted in his BMW by the police in 2009 because of his “Québécois family name” and to send the case back to the Municipal Court for a re-trial, the City of Longueuil has decided to go ahead with another attempt to prosecute Mr. Debellfeuille for a highway traffic offense.

Montreal, November 30, 2011

The decision by the City of Longueuil to prosecute Joel Debellefeuille, a Black business manager, in what is clearly a racial profiling incident, inevitably makes the compelling case for corrective legislative and judicial actions to address race-based prosecutorial discrimination and other forms of systemic racism in the Québec justice sytem.

Montréal, 30 novembre 2011 --- Suite à la décision de la Cour supérieure renversant le verdict de culpabilité et retournant le dossier à la Cour municipale pour un nouveau procès, la Ville de Longueuil a décidé de poursuivre de nouveau monsieur Joel Debellefeuille.

Montreal, November 16, 2011 --- Earlier this week, the Superior Court of Quebec ordered a new trial for a Laval Black man who was tailed by the police on his way home, intercepted, arrested in front of his home and then fined, in what is considered as a “Driving While Black” case in that city.

Montréal, 17 novembre 2011 --- Dans sa décision rendue hier dans le cas de monsieur Joël Debellefeuille, un homme noir intercepté dans sa BMW par un policier de Longueuil, la Cour supérieure conclut que le juge de première instance a commis une erreur en ne prenant pas en considération la défense du profilage racial que M. Bellefeuille a invoquée lors de la comparution.

Montreal, November 17, 2011 --- In an important decision rendered today on the appeal filed by Joel Debellefeuille, a Black man who was intercepted in his BMW by the police in 2009 because of his “Québécois family name”, the Quebec Superior Court ruled that trial judges must take into consideration racial profiling as a defense and a factor that could have influenced police actions in an interception.

Montreal, November 16, 2011 --- In October alone, CRARR helped three racialized citizens file for review of the Police Ethics Commissioner's decisions on racial profiling before the Police Ethics Committee because of problems in the Commissioner's analysis and conclusion.

Montréal, le 15 novembre 2011 --- La Cour supérieure du Québec entendra l’appel déposé par monsieur Joel Debellefeuille, un homme noir intercepté par un policier de Longueuil en raison du fait que selon ce dernier, un homme noir ne peut pas avoir un nom québécois. L’audition aura lieu le jeudi 17 novembre 2011, à 9 h 00, au Palais de Justice de Longueuil, 1111, boulevard Jacques-Cartier Est, salle 1.27, Longueuil.

Montreal, November 14, 2011 --- This Thursday, the Quebec Superior Court will hear the appeal filed by Joel Debellefeuille, a Black man who was stopped by a Longueuil police officer while driving his BMW on the grounds that a Black man could not, in the officer's view, have a Québécois name like Debellefeuille.

Montreal, November 14, 2011 --- “Sexual orientation is part of your private life and any regular employer is entitled to ask their staff not to share their private life with the clients... this is considered management’s rights.” One may think that this is the United States Army’s “Don't Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; in fact, it is a written response of the Quebec human rights commission to a complaint filed last March by a gay Black man.

Montréal, le 11 novembre 2011--- Des dons sont recherchés pour la préparation des actions en matière de droits de la personne afin de protéger ceux des aides familiales résidantes philippines, qui pourraient voir leur cas rejeté par la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse du Québec en raison de modalités techniques.

Montreal, November 11, 2011---Donations are being sought to prepare for civil rights actions to protect the civil rights of a group of Filipina live-in caregivers, who may see their case dismissed by the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission due to technicalities.

Montréal, le 21 octobre 2011 --- Un jeune avocat noir qui a été arrêté par la police plus tôt cette année à son retour à la maison à Laval, une municipalité au nord de Montréal, présentera au Comité de déontologie policière une demande de révision de la décision du Commissaire à la déontologie policière.