1991 – REFORM PARTY RHETORICThe Reform’s early policy proposals for immigration were seen as highly controversial in Canada including a policy pamphlet called Blue Sheet that was issued in mid-1991…
1923 – THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT In 1861, a Victoria newspaper was welcoming: “We have plenty of room for many thousands of Chinamen. … There can be no shadow of…
1911 – BLATANT BARRING OF BLACKS As Canadians, we too often adopt morally superior attitudes toward our American neighbours. While Black slaves who escaped to Canada in the 1800s enjoyed…
1906 — INDIANS NEED NOT NAVIGATE TO CANADAThen-Clerk of the Privy Council, Rodolphe Boudreau wrote on the restriction of immigration from the Orient, in particular British East Indians: “Experience has…
1898 – BARRIERS FOR BLACKSThere was — as government correspondence in Ottawa records now makes clear–a long series of letters exchanged among immigration authorities worried about how to be functionally…
Canadians from coast to coast have expressed concern about the pending drastic changes to the rules surrounding immigration buried in the 400-page omnibus bill. As the House of Commons debates…
La semaine de mode Ottawa est un événement annuel qui prend de plus en plus d’envergure dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau, en créant une occasion unique de promouvoir le talent canadien…
Ottawa Fashion Week is a growing staple in the nation's capital, which brings together local residents and the burgeoning home-grown fashion industry in a unique style. Having attended last year,…
New immigrants are more likely to be unemployed than individuals born in Canada, according to data from Statistics Canada. While immigrants with more education face less unemployment, the disparity between…
Before an Ottawa crowd of about 50 people — most older and all white — Conservative leader Tim Hudak repeated his familiar patter about wasteful government spending and again zeroed…
Ottawa-Nepean PC candidate Randall Denley: "People who come from other countries, I guess I call them foreigners".Almost 30% of Canadians in Ottawa are immigrants. The 2006 census counted 47% of…
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyNow the more haunting question: How did this poisonous and not very subtly racist allegation get such a grip…
