Racism is a national issue and not exclusive to Winnipeg, but we do have a lot of work to do right here at home. By working as a community, Winnipeg can lead the nation in breaking down barriers that exist for Canadians of every colour, race and religion from coast to coast to coast. But it takes all of us working together, undivided, as one Winnipeg.
If you have something to say, then we want to hear it! Send us your one big idea, ask your one pressing question, or go ahead and just have your say. Either way, we want you to…
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Artist Exhibit
Daniella Zalcman's powerful photographic response to the expe...
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The "isms" (Here are 804 character...
There were “ism” hints from a sweet young woman who had chang...
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treat all races equally, on all levels
Have all races pay the same taxes, earn jobs and start busine...
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Treat everyone fairly regardless of b...
When my gr. 4 son, asked me why Aboriginals have certain priv...
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Racism is a 2-Way Street
Racism in Canada is real, however we have to look at the reas...
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stop discriminating
I would like to suggest that we allow people to celebrate and...
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Canada has a racism problem, period.
This summit is vital, and hopefully will be one of many ongoi...
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Ending racism
You can never end racism if you treat people differently base...
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Lack of education/ denial of history
A friend of mine made a comment stating that people need to j...
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Triple "E"
Effective Education = Empathy Empathy can be taught - from...
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When it comes to racism and human rig...
http://www.communitynewscommons.org/our-city/when-it-comes-to...
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Replace "Tolerance" with "Celebration"
We need to rebrand The Forks (primarily the Forks Market) to ...
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We can learn from young children abou...
I was at a multi-cultural event a few years ago and one stron...
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The cost and location of the summit i...
In a nutshell, I would rather see this event free of charge a...
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Misnomer Misfortune
Globally, most academics agree there are but three races, nam...
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Are we all racist?
It seems there is very little one can say that precludes you ...
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its not illigal btw
i can be as racist as i want thank you very much.
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Divisions in our city
As a female visible minority who was born and raised in Winni...
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My brother's tree...
Human rights really starts when there is honesty - first, wit...
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How to get rid of racism
Treat everyone like an equal. Stop benefits based on race, im...
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an annual event?
bravo! Lets make this an annual event!
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Not a racist city
We are not a racist city.We just states the facts. Aboriginal...
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Taking the passive out of compassion ...
#CompassionConvos is a movement challenging the root of our b...
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When all women will be respected, all...
Hi. Racism comes from the same pit as sexism. And while no...
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Fostering understanding at grassroots...
Back in 1980s and 1990s, there were a variety of exchanges be...
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Fight against Racism hijacked
As a visible minority in this city, I've seen the fight again...
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Treaty versus Status
In the 50s' 60s' 70s' and 80's I was referred to as a "Treaty...
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racism
How to foster and increase racism: Treat one or more segme...
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Settler social location
One Winnipeg. It's a driving idea, an ideal, a hopeful place....
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video messages posted on Facebook, in...
video's could be modelled on Sarika Dheer's videos ... depict...
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Idea to bring communities together
I believe that many of our issues in Winnipeg stem from our c...
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Understanding Aboriginals
More Elders come in and present their culture and way of life...
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Winnipeg's aboriginals
Hi, When it comes to racism, as Mayor Bowman has said, it ...
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Racism and/or Classism
When it comes to the negative comments and preconceived ideas...
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INTEGRATION & BREAKING DOWN DIVISIONS
My suggestion for reducing racism is to find direct and indir...
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It's in the little things...
A small thing we can teach our children, both at home and at ...
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Living without racism
I moved to Winnipeg in September for school to finish my grad...
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Ways to make a difference
I am a First Nations male from Swan Lake, Manitoba and I am 2...
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Kicking racism to the Curb
It’s nice to see a site where all can come together as One Wi...
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Me on Racism
I set the example for my kid. He sees me greet our neighbours...
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A little Pick Me Up for the End of th...
Makes me Proud to be Canadian and Manitoban! It's because ...
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A good idea - with a difference
Let's offer the Human Library again, but this time, choose "b...
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International Friendship Centre
The International Friendship Centre seeks to build a communit...
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Citizens of Winnipeg
Dear Citizens of Winnipeg, Racism is a continuing problem ca...
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Dear Citizens of Winnipeg
Dear Citizens of Winnipeg, I am writing a letter on racism i...
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A Way to Better Understand Each Other
To: Everyone reading this: I’m an aboriginal male taking my...
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Newcomer awareness
As a newcomer to Winnipeg (and Canada), I attended the ENTRY ...
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“Winnipeg, the epicentre of Canada’s ...
Less than a year into his term as Mayor of Winnipeg, before a...
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# 6 - stop pretending there's no corr...
It is there. The Powers-that-be don't wanna take it on, but ...
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#5 -Recommended manual for engineerin...
All bigshots in the city, private and public sector, should r...
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The Winnipeg Sun Forum
It's one of the most viles places in the city, if you want to...
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Racism wastes our resources and denie...
Hi, here is my post on my blog: http://rough.superjunctio...
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mass generalization
As we all know one bad apple. Surveys are done, polls are tak...
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Learn what it is to be homeless, no r...
I always hear a lot of people complaining about the "Winnipeg...
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Being "R.A.C.I.S.T." is
Being R.A.C.I.S.T. is "Radically Allowing Cowardly Ideas Surf...
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End ignorance,racism
I would like to see a place ,a permanent,Folkarama, if you li...
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Education is key
I would argue that most Winnipeggers don't have a true unders...
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Idea to stop racism
This is my suggestion to stopping racism against the First Na...
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stop making clubs for certain races
Why is there so much stuff as in clubs and what not for certa...
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One Winnipeg
Hi, I am not entirely sure how this will come across, but I w...
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Stand Against Racism
How Winnipeggers can ACTIVELY stand against racism: Hold ...
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Religious groups can help heal the Ci...
Religious groups can help heal the city's racial divide. Tea...
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True North: Recognize Treaty 1 at Jet...
Hockey, like Lacrosse (Canada's official sports) are deeply r...
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University of Winnipeg - fostering i...
Located in downtown Winnipeg, in Treaty One Territory, in the...
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racism
i think if we get more understanding more knowledge of differ...
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Rethinking, Reproaching and Rebrandin...
I do hereby propose and recommend the following: • Winnipe...
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Bridging the gap
I read the article in Macleans and looked at the picture of T...
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Education combats racism
Ideally, every Winnipegger should learn a bit about Indigenou...
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Addressing Racism
Initiate a media campaign, similar to what MPI does to addres...
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Tackling Racism with a Smile (Part 3)
“Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.”...
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Tackling Racism with a Smile (Part 2)
In times of hardship I’ve always turned to comedy for moral s...
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Tackling Racism with a Smile (Part 1)
Racism sucks. It’s painful to those who feel its sharp stab, ...
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events, discussions, panel format
I think one option for us to use in eliminating racism is for...
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Updating Flag & Coat of Arms
Winnipeg's flag and coat of arms do not reflect the long hist...
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Change your thoughts
Racism has been around for years. There is no reversing what ...
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We need to develop empathy
We need to work to develop more empathy between and amongst a...
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Indigenous public art...everywhere!
I'd love to see quality, permanent public art by Indigenous a...
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Stop Using Inflammatory Language And ...
"Two generations ago, historians wrote of European saints and...
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Why are we stuck on only Natives in t...
Mayor Bowman, I have lived in Wpg. all my life and have not f...
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tolerance and respect
First of all, I don't think we can completely erase the idea ...
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Race No Ism
As an aboriginal student in Yellow Quill College in the matur...
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Speak up
I am a Native Woman, and I am in a Mature Grade 12 Program. I...
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Aboriginal Events
Aboriginal Events I am a First Nations male in my early 2...
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Let's Start with Our Children
I believe that we should start acknowledging our race related...
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Idle No More
To be perfectly honest when "Idle No More" started, I thought...
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An Australian Example: Pay Homage to ...
Hi, I am Winnipeg-based consultant on sustainable transpor...
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Are we inaccurately grouping all syst...
Chipman: "reckless use of those kinds of terms is extremely d...
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Human rights education
Education and respectful conversation will help us overcome r...
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descrimination
Racism exists because tax payers give so much to first nation...
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Events as a Tool
Events Promote cultural community gatherings where everyone ...
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Education as a Tool
Education Racism occurs do to a lack of understanding and aw...
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It's not racism, it's prejudice!
Link to my column on racism http://www.mywestman.ca/opinio...
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Panhandlers
I grew up in a lower income household, and work hard to provi...
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Manitoba Needs More Leaders Like Chei...
How a B.C. native band went from poverty to prosperity (The G...
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Be an Ally
So, SO much understanding and dialogue is needed, but potenti...
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Why is nobody talking about racial re...
Any biologist will tell you there are a great many difference...
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'A Smile of Respect Project'
In responce to the Mayor's challenge, I have started 'A Smile...
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Civic To Public Service
Greetings, Too often people in general will summarize a ba...
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Crime Research Impeded
Racial profiling research is very difficult to conduct in Can...
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Let's address the root cause of (most...
Historically, governments engaging in colonialism have create...
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Give Winnipeg a chance
I was born in Winnipeg in1945 to parents born in Canada of Ja...
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Mentoring programs
I'd like to see mentoring programs in place instead of throwi...
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Racism
see extension
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Use the creation of Zimbabwe as the r...
I think a good idea would be to expropriate a large portion o...
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Overcoming bias/stereotypes
Hi all, this link is to an article that looks at the impact o...
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Native Racism
A slow/steady reduction to native children in CFS, and a slow...
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Global Centre for Aboriginal Studies
As a journalist, former Winnipeg resident and employee of the...
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Discrimination, not just racism
As a volunteer at a drop-in centre/lunch program for homeless...
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1 Winnipeg
In a forum to combat racism, the entire look, design, and lay...
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A question for the Mayor
Mr. Bowman, What was it like growing up as a Métis person?...
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knowledge is power
What if there were classes all Winnipeggers could take to edu...
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Service Available
What services ARE AVAILABLE and HOW are they made PUBLIC or K...
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combat Racism
what needs to happen is we have to stop segregating ourselves...
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It starts at the start
We are not born racist. Racism is learned.
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Let our Collective Healing Begin
There is hope but we (individually and collectively) must be ...
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homes for everyone
I like how The Avenue on Portage has apartments for everyone....
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Employment
Racism is not just Aboriginal problem, Immigrants are also in...
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Short Commercial that can be adapted
I came across this video on Facebook about a similar struggle...
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Racism
Unfortunately we can't change people some are borned to be ev...
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Job Security?
There are so many wonderful ideas being shared and I want to ...
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Racism
I was the first person in Canada to form a volunteer citizen'...
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Racism
Our governments create racism. The minute you treat one Canad...
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racism/discrimination
dear sir/madam with due respect regarding racism /discrimi...
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Compassion crosses all barriers.
Fallen in love in Sioux Lookout, Ontario with a Canadian fore...
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Open communication
Racism will only stop once we totally understand and tolerate...
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Differences
Having worked professionally as a consultant in the managemen...
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Educate our Youth
My thought on this is, we werent born to b racist, it was tau...
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Suggestion
We need to focus on our youth and children to stop racism. We...
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'Native issues' are human issues.
I lived in Whitehorse, Yukon for about thirty years, and when...
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Education for both sides
The biggest problem in my view is the lack of knowledge and u...
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A website for ideas to share ideas to...
I like to suggest the creation of a website where citizens of...
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addressing racism
I work in the medical/nursing field & the most challenging ar...
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Free Down Payments and Mortgage Subsi...
I work hard everyday, but I will probably never own a home. T...
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Racism is global and not about one race.
I just want to remind people that racism is not limited to on...
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a Intercultural City project or progr...
An Intercultural City network, the idea aims to facilitate mu...
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being proactive
Set up volunteer opportunities via native agencies to give no...
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A museum or education centre!
I would like to suggest a museum/education centre that deals ...
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A technologically advanced education ...
Our industrialized education system is ineffective. People of...
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Remove junk food from stores
I have seen aboriginal women put pepsi in bottles to feed the...
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Learning Through Osmosis...
When I was a child growing up in the North End, my friends we...
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Get over it
Racism is the new thing to worry about, if you don't like wha...
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Equality
Treat ALL Canadians the same regardless of race, colour, cree...
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Prove to First Nations, Winnipeg Appr...
I would challenge the Mayor to initiate to all Businesses in ...
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mutual respect
We should all be accountable for ourselves and our actions. ...
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how to stop racism
Racism will continue to exist until everyone is treated the s...
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"Shoalidarity"
Check out my initiative at www.seekingsocialjustice.com/shoal...
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treatment and help
Treatment for mental health issues including alcohol and drug...
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Education as a Solution
I believe that we can begin to end racism through the educati...
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Role of CMHR in Analysing Canadian So...
My suggestion would be to create an independent inquiry into ...
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MEDIA
Take a look at the media. Tom Broadbeck is pretty good at tur...
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Winnipeg isn't racist; the Macleans a...
Winnipeg is one of the most diverse and least racist cities i...
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A Sporty Solution
It's Christmas eve, 1914. Along the western front during worl...
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MORE EDUCATION ON ABORIGINAL PEOPLES ...
I'm a 25 year old, female, aboriginal college student and I f...
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Conversations
Our organizations Islamic Social Services Association and Can...
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The community we all share
Racism is a problem, we all know this. What can we do about i...
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Updated curriculum
The school curriculum needs to be revamped to include how the...
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Acceptance
The main issue that we have here in Winnipeg is that our acce...
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Key of Bart: YWG
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Clean house in the justice system
There is serious corruption in the Manitoba Human Rights Comm...
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The peoples' voice first; the elite s...
Don't put too much faith in "leadership." People in the ivor...
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# 3 - Voluntary Human Rights Organiza...
If I want my customers to know I produce quality components, ...
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Stop using labels to describe people
We need to stop using labels. As long as we use words like C...
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Building Relationships
I would like to start a program/group/centre called "Bridge t...
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#2 - Partners in the business sector
Unions, professional associations, and the like, can play a p...
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#1 - Define Winnipegers' values
What is a Winnipeger? Is he/she a racist? Then codify their...
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Breaking bread together
Remove the divide. We need more opportunities to come togeth...
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Volunteering to end Racism
The key to understanding anyone whether in a business or soci...
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Visible minorities
Employers should be given grants or subsidies when hiring per...
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UNESCO Coalition for Municipalities A...
The City of Winnipeg is a signing partner with other municipa...
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immigration and racism
Make it mandatory to teach all new comers to Manitoba about t...
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Racism in Winnipeg
I believe the Police department is a huge problem for the Cit...
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First Nations and Métis History Month
Black History Month, held annually in the United States, Grea...
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Education
I think part of the reason why there is racism is because peo...
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Le bilinguisme
Bonjour, Je pense que ce site-web est une très bonne idée. E...
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Racism is the issue but not the real ...
The dialogue should not be aboriginals vs anyone but rather h...
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Disabilities In Winnipeg
Why are you not mentioning disabilities? I work at Society f...
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Winnipeg's New Mantra...Let It Start ...
Let it start with me is the new mantra Winnipeg must embrace ...
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Dispelling Myths
One of the biggest perpetrators of racism is the litany of my...
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racism and accommodation.
In Saint Boniface something interesting is going on. There ar...
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pay tribute
In all the difficult and honest discussions, find a way to hi...
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Join The Family @ The Bell Tower
Meet Me @ The Bell Tower is a community led event that happen...
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Stop Yelling
I'm am red, white, brown, yellow..Black Black inside from al...
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City adopting Multiculturalism Policy
I'd like to see the City adopt a Multiculturalism policy, as ...
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RACISM HURTS
RACISM HURTS "Time to criminalize Racism" either Federal l...
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why aren't all groups represented?
ALL GROUPS get a say in what happens in our city, when this b...
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A "Native-only problem?"
http://wp.me/53f7l Above is a link to the blog post I wrot...
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Kapyong could be thriving by now...
Our goal needs to stop being "Were they right? Were they wron...
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"I believe that children are our futu...
....show them all the beauty that they possess inside". I ...
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Empathy
Dear Brian It begins with empathy and until we fully appre...
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Public Action
I found a site dedicated to ending racism & Winnipeg can be t...
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Education
Understanding different cultures & ethnicities expands the mi...
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Spread the positive
Why not spread the good? Let's take to social media. Keep the...
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Racism and Freedom of Speach
Racism should be nailed but freedom of speech needs to be pro...
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"They do it to themselves"
I hear a lot of remarks of people saying things like "Oh you ...
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Media
There is no media attention when aboriginal people go missing...
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Police
Much of the racism is perpetrated by police inattention to re...
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attack the problem
I was pretty jaded in the past, I wouldn't say racist but it ...
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attack the problem
I was pretty jaded in the past, I wouldn't say racist but it ...
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Take race out of it
My frustrations stem out of the conception, or perhaps miscon...
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Equality
Everyone must be treated the same. We all have to fall under ...
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Awareness, Acceptance, Support.
Viral Videos are an 'in' thing, along with flash mobs. What ...
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Harassment issues Downtown
I lived in downtown Winnipeg for 7 years and the experience w...
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Society without Racism, Yes we can !!
Respected Honorable Mayor, To stop racism in our province ...
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Manditory tolerance classes for eleme...
The problem with racism is that it is a deep rooted trait. Pa...
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Town halal
Let's have a town hall...in person with Internet, social medi...
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Accept and Address Obstacles
When the discourse on issues is being affected by intergroup ...
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First step to improve relations is li...
Inform people about the treaties, the Indian Act, and why the...
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Making Peace with the Past
Would the City consider staring a dialogue with Shoal Lake 40...
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It Starts With Me
All the recent dialogue about racism in Winnipeg has been ver...
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Sensitivity Training - "Being an anti...
Inspired by a great program facilitated by the University of ...
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Words
Stop using the words 'them' 'they' 'those people' we are all ...
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We are all treaty people
All of us settlers should spend more time learning about the ...
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Research on Racism in the city
Hi, I think there should be sociological research in the ...
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We're all responsible
We ALL need to take responsibility for what happens today. Th...
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Justice or Equality
Saw this image online and I think it puts things in perspective.
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Blind
If we were blind we would all be the same color.
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Everyone should have rights to live safe
I agree with the fact that there are racist people in the wor...
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Kindness (or lack thereof)
Do we have a racism problem in Winnipeg (and beyond)? Or is i...
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Let's have this dialogue now because ...
"I'm not here to pacify. I want people to continue to stand u...
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Instead of putting each other down, w...
“I have a right to be different. If we as a society make that...
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We Need to Have the Difficult Convers...
"We need to have a really difficult conversation respective o...
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One Winnipeg
"I want every young person in our community, regardless of wh...
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Equality in Status, Rights & Opportun...
Stemming from the recent events of Maclean's Magazine's artic...
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Milroy Montage on Racism in Winnipeg
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Armbands in Support of Anti-Racism
Designate a particular Jets homegame and people can wear arm-...