LES ÉLECTIONS DE 2018 : UN PLUS GRAND NOMBRE DE DÉPUTÉS ISSUS DES MINORITÉS RACISÉES
Montréal, 2 octobre 2018 — Un nombre significatif de membres des minorités racisées et ethnoculturelles élus à l’Assemblée nationale du Québec hier démontre que le changement démographique a également modifié les couleurs de la démocratie québécoise.
BLACK WOMAN ACCUSES THE MONTREAL POLICE OF POSSIBLE OBSTRUCTION OF THE INVESTIGATION OF HER OFFICER MISCONDUCT COMPLAINT
Montréal, September 7, 2018 - A Black woman is accusing the Montreal Police (SPVM) of obstructing the Police Ethics Commissioner’s investigation into her complaint of police officers’ misconduct since it did not cooperate in good faith with the Commissioner’s office.
APPEL URGENT POUR L'AIDE FINANCIÈRE À UNE VICTIME D’AGRESSION RACISTE DÉLAISSÉE PAR LA COMMISSION DES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE
Montréal, 31 août 2018 — Le CRARR lance un appel urgent pour le financement des frais légaux de Harrold Acquah, un homme handicapée anglophone unilingue de race noire, que la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse a décidé de ne pas représenter devant le Tribunal des droits de la personne.
URGENT APPEAL FOR FINANCIAL AID FOR A DISABLED BLACK VICTIM OF HATE CRIME LEFT ON HIS OWN BY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Montréal, August 31st, 2018 - CRARR is launching an urgent appeal for public funding for Harrold Acquah, a disabled English-speaking Black victim of a racist hate crime, who has been left by the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission to seek justice before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal by himself and at his own expense.
LAW STUDENT WITH DISABILITIES FILES COMPLAINT OF SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Montréal, August 28, 2018 - After being denied adequate support to fully integrate and succeed in his law studies over a period of two years, a law student with disabilities at McGill University has decided to file a complaint of systemic discrimination against the institution with the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission.
SIX ANS PLUS TARD, JULIAN MENEZES CONCLUT UNE ENTENTE AVEC LA VILLE SUR LE PROFILAGE RACIAL MAIS LES QUESTIONS SYSTÉMIQUES DEMEURENT NON RESOLUES
Montréal, 21 août 2018 — Six ans après qu’il eut porté plainte en déontologie policière et en droit de la personne contre deux policiers du SPVM pour profilage racial et autres pratiques discriminatoires, Julian Menezes vient de conclure avec la Ville un règlement du litige.
Les parties se sont entendues sur le paiement d’un montant de 25 000 $, sans admission de responsabilité.
AFTER SIX YEARS, JULIAN MENEZES SETTLED CASE OF RACIAL PROFILING WITH THE CITY, WITH MANY SYSTEMIC ISSUES LEFT UNTOUCHED
Montréal, August 21, 2018 — Six years after he filed civil rights and police ethics complaints against two Montreal Police officers for racial profiling and other illegal practices, Julian Menezes has reached a settlement with the City.
The settlement, concluded in June of this year, includes a payment of $25,000 with no admission of liability.
UNE VICTIME DE RACISME ENTREPREND DES RECOURS CONTRE LA COMMISSION DES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE
Montréal, 16 août 2018 — Un immigrant d’origine haïtienne, qui s’est vu refuser un emploi à la Société de transport de Montréal et qui a déposé une plainte en 2011 à la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse en lien avec ce refus, a intenté un recours civil contre celle-ci pour grossière négligence dans le traitement de son dossier.
VICTIMS TO CONSIDER LEGAL ACTION AFTER HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION REJECTED CASE DESPITE COMPLAINT OF BIASED STAFF CONDUCT
Montréal, August 2, 2018 - Despite the victims’ complaint that the staff person’s handling of their case was biased and failed to follow proper procedures, commissioners at the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission decided to close a case by adopting the recommendation of this staff person pending the outcome of the complaint against her.
LE CAS DE L’INTERDICTION DES LANGUES PARLÉES À LAVAL PASSE À L’ENQUÊTE PAR LA COMMISSION DES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE
Montréal, 26 février 2018 — L’interdiction par l’Office municipal d’habitation de Laval (OMHL) imposée aux employés d’origine latino-américaine et anglophones de converser dans leurs langues maternelles pendant les heures de travail, même dans les conversations privées, fera l’objet d’une enquête par la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse.
LAVAL HOUSING OFFICE LANGUAGE BAN CASE GOES TO CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION
Montréal, July 26, 2018 - A case involving the Laval Municipal Housing Office’s prohibition to Latin American and English-speaking staff from speaking in Spanish or English among themselves during office hours, even in private conversations, is heading to investigation by the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission.
DISABLED WOMAN WITH SERVICE DOG MISTREATED AT CHÂTEAUGUAY WALMART: BETTER POLICY AND TRAINING NEEDED
Montreal, July 22, 2018 — A disabled woman in her fifties is charging that the Châteauguay Walmart has violated her rights and failed to follow its own policy on service animals when a store employee stopped and publicly treated her in a vexatious manner.
SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION AGAINST ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES: PARENTS TO FILE COMPLAINT
Montréal, July 19, 2018 - The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) is being taken to the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission for engaging in systemic discrimination based on disability, language and social condition towards children with learning disabilities and autism and their families.
SUPERIOR COURT TO HEAR APPEAL BY CHÂTEAUGUAY BLACK DRIVER WHO WAS PEPPER SPRAYED IN A DRIVING WHILE BLACK CASE
Montréal, July 6, 2018 — A Châteauguay Anglophone Black man, John Chilcott, who was tailed, stopped, pepper sprayed by a police officer and then arrested while driving his daughters to school in December 2015, will appear in court this coming Monday to present his appeal.
SHOPPING WHILE BLACK: BLACK WOMAN STILL TRAUMATIZED AFTER BEING MISTAKENLY ARRESTED AT THE BRICK STORE IN THE WEST ISLAND
Montréal, July 3, 2018 — One year after being arrested and handcuffed while shopping at The Brick in the West Island, an English-speaking Black woman still experiences intense trauma as her complaints of consumer racial profiling proceed through formal channels.
