Montreal, October 21, 2011 --- Two English-speaking Black Montrealers have mandated CRARR to file civil rights complaints against a major department store after both were rudely intercepted in two different cases involving different branches, and required to produce proofs of purchase right after they paid at the cash and being suspected of theft.

Montreal, October 21, 2011---A young Black lawyer who was stopped earlier this year by the Police on his way home in Laval, a municipality north of Montreal, will file an Application to the Police Ethics Committee for review of the Police Ethics Commissioner's decision.

Montreal, October 3, 2011---The case of Mr. Farid Charles, a 27-year old Black high school teacher who last year was violently yanked from a friend’s car by two Montreal Police officers, arrested and then fined, will be brought by the Police Ethics Commissioner before the Police Ethics Committee.

CRARR will host a day-long round-table discussion on issues identified in the International Labor Organization's Convention on the Work of Domestic Workers, on March 9, 2012, from 9:00 to 5:00 pm.

Montreal, October 14, 2011 --- With CRARR's help, a security guard of Moroccan ancestry has won his case before the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission, after his application for a security guard position with a Montreal university was rejected in 2005 because the head of security at the time did not want Arabs or minorities working in that service.

More information to come.

Montréal, le 9 septembre 2011 --- Une éducatrice musulmane a mandaté le CRARR de déposer une plainte contre La Ronde pour profilage racial après que le parc d’attractions l’ait accusée de fraude, détenue pour l’interroger pendant plus d’une heure et puis, avant de terminer l’enquête, lui ait interdit l’accès pendant un an.

Montreal, September 16, 2011 --- Two Montreal Police officers will be cited by the Police Ethics Commissioner for conduct contrary to the Quebec Code of Police Ethics in a case involving two anglophone Black youths at the Villa Maria metro station last year.

Montreal, September 19, 2011 --- As part of its Student Civil Rights Information Project (SCRIP), CRARR is seeking international students who are subject to predatory apartment rental practices such as requiring a copy of the passport; charging two to three months of rent in advance and other service fees.

Montreal, September 9, 2011 --- A Muslim educator has mandated CRARR to file a complaint against La Ronde for racial profiling after the amusement park accused her of fraud, detained and interrogated her for more than one hour and then, before completing its investigation, banned her for one year.

Montreal, September 20, 2011 --- Amal Asmar, the Arab Concordia University graduate who was violently arrested and fined by two Montreal Police officers in Winter 2010, has filed for judicial review of the Police Ethics Committee decision that rejects her racial profiling claim due to what she considers to be erroneous application of the law.

The case will provide a rare opportunity for Quebec courts to address racial profiling and discrimination in police practices.

One of Canada's top broadcast executives, Tony Burman, will be the keynote speaker at the sixth edition of the Gail Guthrie Valaskakis Annual Lecture on Diversity and Canadian Media, hosted by Concordia University's Communication Studies Department and CRARR.

Montréal, le 29 août 2011 --- En février 2010, Amal Asmar, une étudiante d'origine arabe de l'Université Concordia se fait arrêter violemment par deux policiers de Montréal qui lui donnent, à  cette occasion, deux amendes excessives. Soutenue par le CRARR, cette étudiante vient de gagner une autre ronde dans son dossier auprès du Comité de déontologie policière.

Montreal, August 29, 2011 --- Two Montrealers of Indian origin have been the target of investigation and subsequent ”periodic checking” by the Quebec Health Insurance Board (Régie de l'assurance-maladie du Québec, or RAMQ) for possible fraud simply because their names somehow landed on a list of an immigration consultant involved in a major scheme to defraud medicare.

Montreal, August 24, 2011 --- Amal Asmar, the Arab Concordia University graduate who was arrested and fined by two Montreal Police officers, has won another round in her case, after the Police Ethics Committee ruled the officers had acted in bad faith by fining her more than double or triple the normal rate.

Montreal, August 23, 2011 --- A major Canadian bank and an external recruiting agency are cited in two complaints of race-based discrimination against a Black Canadian woman, for having required her to submit a certificate of good conduct from the police as a condition of approval of her hiring, despite the knowledge that she could not obtain such a document while facing criminal charges.