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RCtv livestreams and other REEL CANADA programmes explore several topics about life in Canada from different perspectives. You can find resources to learn more about any of these topics from the menus below.
CBC News. Being Black in Canada.
de Bruin, Tabitha. Black Canadians. The Canadian Encyclopedia (19 Feb. 2013).
Morgan, Jalani, Levinson-King, R. & Murphy, J. Black in Canada: 10 stories. BBC News.
National Film Board. Channels | Black Communities in Canada.
The Canadian Encyclopedia. Collection: Black History in Canada.
Sport
Diaby, Jonathan-Ismaël. It’s 1920 in Saint-Jérôme, Que. CBC/Radio-Canada (02 Mar. 2019).
Fosty, George & Darril Fosty. Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes. The Canadian Encyclopedia (02 Feb. 2018).
Neill, Daniel. Breaking Ice: The Story of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes. Canadian Museum of History (23 Jun. 2023).
In Canadian History
Legislation & Policies regarding Indigenous Peoples
Policing
Butts, Edward. North-West Mounted Police. The Canadian Encyclopedia (7 Feb. 2006).
Canadaland Podcasts. The Police 2: The secret history of the RCMP. Commons (28 Oct. 2020).
CBC Podcasts. The Mounties always get their land (Part 1). The Secret Life of Canada (S3, E12. 16 Sep. 2020).
CBC Podcasts. The Mounties always get their land (Part 2). The Secret Life of Canada (S3, E14. 11 Nov. 2020).
Indian Act
Facing History and Ourselves. White Paper, Red Paper. In Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools. (20 Sep. 2019).
Native Women’s Association of Canada. The Indian Act said what? [Timeline infographic] (2018).
Reserves & the Pass System
Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc. 8 First Nation reserve FAQs – #1 of 2 First Nation reserve series (11 Jan. 2023).
Nestor, Rob. Pass system in Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia (16 Jul. 2018).
Residential Schools
Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Canada’s Residential Schools | Resource Guide.
Settlement.org What were residential schools in Canada? (29 Sep. 2021).
Sixties Scoop
Live & Learn. Have you heard about the Sixties Scoop? (30 May 2018).
Settlement.org What is the Sixties Scoop? (16 Dec. 2021).
In Canada today
Health & Quality of Life
Casey, Liam. ‘Life is hard’: Living under a 29-year boil-water advisory in an Ontario First Nation. The Canadian Press (26 Sep. 2024).
Dowling-Savelle, Lindsay. Q&A: Systemic racism in Canada’s health care system. Medical Xpress (19 Oct. 2020).
Child Welfare & Education
Blackstock, Cindy. Blackstock: One year later, Liberals still discriminate against First Nations children. Ottawa Citizen (17 Oct. 2016).
Blackstock, Cindy & N. Trocmé. Are Indigenous communities being set up to fail with the transfer of control of child welfare services? Policy Options (18 Oct. 2024).
Canadaland Podcasts. Chapter 3: Deathly low priority. Thunder Bay Podcast (28 Oct. 2018).
Criminal Justice, Violence & Policing
Chartrand, Vicki. Broken system: Why is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous?. The Conversation (18 Feb. 2018).
Daum Shanks, Signa. Legal and systemic issues left unexamined in Stanley trial. Policy Options (24 Sep. 2018).
Government of Canada | Office of the Correctional Investigator. Indigenous people in federal custody surpasses 30%: Correctional Investigator issues statement and challenge (21 Jan. 2020).
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls.
The Guardian. Not Invisible. — Series on violence against Indigenous women
Buchignani, Norman. South Asian Canadians. The Canadian Encyclopedia (12 May 2010).
The Canadian Encyclopedia. Collection: Asian Heritage in Canada.
The Canadian Encyclopedia. Timeline: Asia-Canada.
Joy, Amanda. Vietnamese Canadians. The Canadian Encyclopedia (5 Mar. 2018).
Festival Accès Asie. Access Asia Festival (Montreal).
Martín-Flórez, Camilo. Asian-Canadian perspectives in 7 recent, memorable NFB films | Curator’s Perspective. NFB Blog (22 Apr. 2024).
National Film Board. Channels | Asian Canadian Perspectives.
National Film Board. Channels | Asian Communities in Canada.
Radio Canada International (RCI). Asian Heritage Month.
Statistics Canada | StatsCan Plus. A statistical snapshot of Asians in Canada (2 May 2024).
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
University of the Fraser Valley | South Asian Studies Institute. History of South Asians in Canada: Timeline. South Asian Canadian Heritage.
Wilson-Smith, Anthony. Celebrating Asian heritage in Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia (14 Nov. 2016).
Blattberg, Charles. Canadian identity. The Canadian Encyclopedia (2 Jan. 2013).
Canada Guide. Culture.
Cultural Atlas. Canadian culture (2016).
Elghawaby, Amira; E. Chorney-Booth; J. Wei & D. Paradis. Canadian multiculturalism: A work in progress. The Walrus (6 Dec. 2021).
Government of Canada. Canadian identity and society (2024).
National Film Board. Subjects | Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism.
Norris, Doug. Census 2021: Canada’s cultural diversity continues to increase. Environics Analytics (26 Oct. 2022).
Statistics Canada. The Canadian census: A rich portrait of the country’s religious and ethnocultural diversity. The Daily (26 Oct. 2022).
Understanding Settler Colonialism
Bruce, Jean. The Last Best West: Advertising for immigrants to Western Canada, 1870 – 1930 (Archived). Canadian Museum of History (2004).
Eidinger, Andrea & York-Bertram, Sarah. Imagining a better future: An introduction to teaching and learning about settler colonialism in Canada. Unwritten Histories (20 Feb. 2018).
McLean, Sheelah: “We built a life from nothing”: White settler colonialism and the myth of meritocracy (2018).
Undoing the Mess of Settler Colonialism
Alfred, Taiaiake. For Indigenous nations to live, colonial mentalities must die. Policy Options (13 Oct. 2017).
Beazley, Doug. Decolonizing the Indian Act. National Magazine of the Canadian Bar Association (18 Dec. 2017).
Palmater, Pam. Abolishing the Indian Act means eliminating First Nations’ rights. Maclean’s (10 Oct. 2019).
Palmater, Pam. What we’re seeing in 2020 is Idle No More 2.0. Maclean’s (15 Sep. 2020).
Wotton, Pandora. Indigenous realities: Tayka Raymond calls on participants to ‘Decolonize your mind’. The McGill Daily (25 Nov. 2019).
The Canadian Encyclopedia. Collection: Canadian Francophonie.
Government of Canada | Heritage. Flags of La Francophonie.
Government of Canada | Heritage. Some facts on the Canadian Francophonie.
Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities of Canada. Interactive Map of Canadian Francophonie. (in French)
Heritage Matters. Francophone Heritage.
National Film Board. Subjects | Francophone Communities.
La puce à l’oreille. (in French)
Radio-Canada. Zone jeunesse. (in French)
Les Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF).
TV5Unis | FrancoLab. (in French)
APTN News. Our Stories.
The Canadian Encyclopedia. Collection: Indigenous Peoples.
CBC News Interactives. I Am Indigenous (2017).
CBC Arts. YouTube playlist | Keep Calm and Decolonize. (2017). — Five short films
Black, Jaime. REDress Project. — Art exhibition on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
CBC Radio. Stories can be both wondrous and dangerous, according to writer Thomas King. Ideas (4 Jun. 2020).
National Film Board. Channels | Indigenous cinema.
Understanding Racism
Ajadi, Tari. The race conversation Vancouver needs to have. The Tyee (7 Aug. 2013).
McKay-Panos, Linda. Human rights | The importance of distinguishing racism from racial discrimination. Law Now (1 Sep. 2020).
Oluo, Ijeoma. Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people. The Guardian (28 Mar. 2019).
Safe@School. Racism.
TEDx Talks. Implicit bias — How it affects us and how we push through | Melanie Funchess. YouTube (16 Oct. 2014). [16 min.]
How Does Racism Hurt People?
Canadian Psychological Association. “Psychology Works” fact sheet: Racism (8 Aug. 2020).
Canadian Public Health Association. Racism is a public health issue in Canada—it’s time to speak out. (17 Dec. 2018).
Deschamps, Tara. Canadian people of colour carry an ’emotional tax’ at work. The Hamilton Spectator (24 July 2019).
Henry, Annette. Dear white people, wake up: Canada is racist. The Conversation (6 Sep. 2017).
Loppie, Samantha, Reading, C. et de Leeuw, S. Indigenous experiences with racism and its impacts. National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (9 July 2014).
Martis, Eternity. When racism makes people sick. West End Phoenix (24 Nov. 2020).
Palmater, Pam. Yes, Canada has a racism crisis and it’s killing Black and Indigenous peoples. Canadian Dimension (3 Jun. 2020).
Slaughter, Graham. Five charts that show what systemic racism looks like in Canada. CTV News (4 Jun. 2020).
Wilson, Jillian. This is what racial trauma does to the body and brain. HuffPost (1 Jul. 2020).
Anti-Racism & Reconciliation Resources
The AntiRacist Table. 30 day challenge. — A free, self-paced 30 lesson program
Canadian Race Relations Foundation. The anti-racist youth lab.
Daliri, Erfan. Let’s talk about how anti-racism benefits everyone (Archived). (28 Sep. 2020).
Equitas. Addressing anti-racism (2020).
Experiences Canada — Anti-Racism resources.
Experiences Canada — Reconciliation resources.
Government of Canada — Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat.
Lamont, Amélie. The guide to allyship (2021).
Ligue des droits et libertés. Systemic Racism… Let’s Talk about It! (2018 Edition).
Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy Network — Indigenous Ally Toolkit.
Terry, Ruth. How to be an active bystander when you see casual racism. New York Times (29 Oct. 2020).
United Nations — Fight racism.
Barber, John. Canada’s Indigenous schools policy was ‘cultural genocide’, says report. The Guardian (2 Jun. 2015).
Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Canada’s Indian residential schools: Childhood denied (20 Sep. 2018).
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Taylor, Adam. Did Canada commit a ‘cultural genocide’? Washington Post (5 Jun. 2015).
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (archived).
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