All posts tagged colonialism

Zoe Druick: The book posits that there is a fundamental denial of white privilege in the Canadian legal system, that the system is colour-blind. How did this situation come to be? Sherene Razack: To begin with, law has always worked in service of the colonisers. The first example that comes to mind is the British…

 Trigger warning: Thousands of girls and boys were raped and tortured, and many were murdered, in Canada’s aboriginal boarding schools.  In Canada, up until 1985, Christian churches ran around 100 boarding schools for aboriginal children.  Between 100,000 and 200,000 children were forced to attend these boarding schools.  Reportedly, around 50,000 aboriginal children died in these…