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04/02/2022

Happy Autism Awareness Day! There are many ways of thinking and seeing the world and the more we include the bigger and more beautiful our lives and workplaces can be!!

04/01/2022

Celebrating Sikh Heritage Month with this note from Gurpreet Kaur Sodhi, DiversiPro Associate:

As a Sikh Canadian woman born and raised on this wonderful land, I have had my struggles with racism due to my faith and skin colour. I have been subjected to micro-aggressions, the most common being getting asked where I am from originally. (For the record, I am from Bowmanville, Ontario!) In recent years I have been able to use my voice to educate organizations and individuals on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism. When someone tries to downplay the racism I have experienced throughout my life, I remember what Hamlin Grange, the Founder and Principal Consultant of DiversiPro, reminds us “To fix it, you must uncover and name it.” I will not ignore it.

Naming it also mean acknowledging the role of Sikhs in the history and heritage of Canada. One of the most profound part of Canadian history and heritage was when Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald penned a letter to a friend in India in 1867 in which he wrote “War will come someday between England and the United States and India can do us yeoman's service by sending an army of Sikhs ... across the Pacific to San Francisco and holding that beautiful and immortal city with the surrounding California — as security for Montreal and Canada." Then in 2015, our Defence Department was led by a Sikh man.

The historic Canadian election in 2015 elected 14 Sikh members to the Parliament of Canada with 4 in Cabinet. The Cabinet members included Minister of Defence, Harjit Sajjan, a former police officer and military veteran; Amarjeet Sohi, the spokesperson for the Local 569 of the Amalgamated Transit Union became the Minister of Infrastructure; Navdeep Bains, 38, a business school professor became the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic development; and Bardish Chagger, 35, the Special Projects Coordinator became in as Minister of Small Business and Tourism.

03/31/2022

On International Transgender Day of Visibility we honour accomplishments of transgender & gender nonconforming people while standing alongside for the work that needs to be done to achieve trans justice.

03/28/2022

Combating racism and all forms of
discrimination requires courage; moral courage. It requires leaders who will not only do the "right thing" but the necessary things too.

Being a "leader" in the fight against racism, bigotry and discrimination should not only be a function of those in authority. It should be an expectation of all people who are part of the larger human family.

02/28/2022

We have come to the end of 28 days of “celebrating” the presence of Black people in Canada. Black History Month rightly shines the light on the historic marginalization of people of African descent, but it should also be a time to celebrate Black excellence.

For me, Black history is more than about “suffering”; it’s about innovation, brilliance, and success. Throughout this month, DiversiPro has highlighted the achievement of many African Canadians - from the brilliance and ground-breaking achievement of the late parliamentarian Leonard Braithwaite, who helped to abolish segregated schools in Ontario, to the athleticism and determination of sprinter Harry Jerome and hockey players Willie O’Ree and Herb Carnegie. But what touched me the most was remembering Chloe Cooley and her defiant screams for help - against being transported back to the United States from Canada - that inspired the eventual end of slavery in Canada. It reminded me that the march of racism continues to this day and we should never remain silent.

02/25/2022

There are novels, songs, short films and plays about Marie-Josèphe Angélique, because her story is so compelling, and yet most Canadians have not heard her name. She was born into slavery in Portugal in around 1705, and ultimately ended up in the enslavement of The Franchevilles, a family in Montreal

Marie Josèphe was about 20 when she got to Montreal, and she had a reputation for being belligerent, for making things difficult for her “masters” and for constantly complaining about hating being a slave, hating Canada, and wanting to return to Portugal. Her intention to run and find freedom was well known. She uttered threats against the mistress of the house she worked at and didn’t make a secret of hating her.

With this and prior attempts to escape, it was natural to accuse her of the fire that started next door to her Mistress’ home and burnt down much of Old Montreal. Marie-Josèphe was almost certainly innocent of starting the fire, but her previous behaviour, and rumours accusing her, were inescapable. She maintained her innocence through the trial until her torture began, at which point she confessed.

Throughout her whole life, she resisted every attempt to break her, to take away her humanity. During the fire that burnt down Montreal, that she was accused of, and executed for starting, Marie-Josèphe was busy helping rescue children and other neighbours from burning buildings. Marie-Josèphe’s story reminds us of two things: first, slavery happened in Canada – this is indisputable; second, enslaved Black People did not just accept their fate and work quietly wherever they were placed. They resisted. Despite the atrocious treatment they were subject to, they maintained their own lives and personalities, they had dreams and goals and love and community. They should be remembered as the cornerstones of many of the communities that exist today in Canada.

image: (Copyright info to use for image) © Kit Lang https://kit-lang.see.me

02/23/2022

Slavery was abolished in Canada in 1834, but one of the first steps leading to it was the Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada in 1793. That legislation happened in great part due to the resistance of Chloe Cooley, to being sold by her slave owner in Canada to someone in New York.

Canadian slaveholders were becoming worried that Canada might abolish slavery, so they began to try to sell their slaves across the border to avoid financial losses. The attempts by Adam Vrooman to transport her were met with her feirce physical resistance. Her screams of protest were heard, and even though nobody stopped her transport to New York, her story did inspire the beginning of the end of slavery in Canada.

We don’t know much else about Chloe Cooley, about her life before or after she was “sold” to a slave owner in New York to save Adam Vrooman some money. She is significant not only because her story helped to usher in the end of slavery in Canada, but because she is an example of the resistance to slavery by Black People. Black People were not willing participants in their chattelization and comodification; they resisted all along in many ways big and small. This resistance by all Black People is exemplified by Chloe, and that is why she should be remembered.

02/22/2022

Leonard Braithwaite was born October 28, 1923, in Toronto to parents from the Caribbean. He persistently worked to get himself “recruited” into Military Service until he was finally accepted into the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 after being overlooked for a year because he was Black. He continuously also had difficulty finding work due to his race, and his response was always to better himself, first by joining the military, and following that by continuing his education. After his military service he pursued a Bachelor of Commerce, an MBA, and then became a lawyer. After all that, in 1962 he was elected as an Alderman in the Toronto City Council, then an MPP in the Ontario Legislature making him the first Black man to be elected to any legislature in Canada.

As a parliamentarian, he is most known for abolishing segregated schools and changing the page program in the assembly to include women. He was a member of numerous clubs, groups and associations dedicated to community service. He also sponsored youth athletics programs from his law practice.

Some of the honours he received were being named to the Order of Canada in 1997, appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2004, being the first Black Board of Director, or “Bencher,” elected to the Upper Canada Law Society (now called the Law Society of Ontario) in 1999, the William Hubbard Race Relations Award from the City of Toronto, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, a Harry Jerome award and numerous others from the many community groups he had worked with and inspired throughout his life and career. Leonard died in 2012 at the age of 88.

02/17/2022

Harry Winston Jerome was more than just an incredible, dedicated athlete who revolutionized his sport by introducing weight training for sprinters and track and field athletes. More than an Olympic Bronze medalist, and - for a time - The Fastest Man in the World. More than the Athlete of the Century in British Columbia and Order of Canada Recipient. He is also the man who created BC's sports curriculum, who built programming for youth in sports, and has inspired millions of young people to aspire to excellence against all odds. His commitment to helping young people is less known than his athletic excellence but not less impactful.

His name is on parks and arenas throughout Canada, as well as scholarships and awards programs. The Black Business and Professional Association gave their 40 year old awards program Harry Jerome's name and face because he exemplifies the excellence they want to uphold, honour, and inspire.

photo credit: © 2022 Canadian Olympic Committee. All Rights Reserved.

02/16/2022

Willie O'Ree became the first Black hockey player to play in the NHL in 1958. He'd been playing hockey any chance he could since he was three years old, as the legends go.

Willie O'Ree Day is celebrated on January 18th (the day of his first NHL game) in Fredericton, New Brunswick where he was born, as well as in Boston where he began his NHL tenure.

He played in the minor leagues and then was called up to the NHL as a replacement for an injured player. He played for 2 teams in 3 seasons, but was demoted back to the minors when officials found out that he was technically blinded in one eye from a puck hit years prior that should have precluded him from ever being in the NHL. He continued playing in minor leagues until 1974. 1974 is also the year that the NHL finally had a second Black player, Mike Marson who played for Washington for 7 seasons.

02/15/2022

Herb Carnegie is known as the best hockey player to never play in the NHL. He has been inducted into the Order of Ontario, the Order of Canada, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and Ontario's Sports Hall of Fame. His family - and many other hockey players - believe that he deserves to be in the Hockey Hall of Fame, in the Builder Category, and have been advocating for it for the last two years. He should have been a Toronto Maple Leaf. He would have been "if someone could make him white," or rather, if not for racism.

We honour Herb for his athletic excellence (in hockey and golf), and for his work to build a hockey school, The Future Aces Hockey School, to foster respect, tolerance, diversity and sportsmanship among young people. He was born in 1919, and died in 2012.

02/14/2022

Donovan Bailey is a record smashing Jamaican-Canadian sprinter known for being the first Canadian to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meter sprint. He is also the only person to be inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame twice!

We honour barrier-breaking Black athletes like Donovan because they had to overcome many more barriers than others who are not Black to be able to achieve what they did.

Donovan is still a shining example of athleticism and excellence, and he works to inspire others to follow in his very fast steps.

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