Restoring the Tree of Life: Facing Hate through Policy
by Myra Lisselle Wein From sundown Friday night to sundown Saturday night, Jews commemorate the Sabbath, a day of rest. Yet on the morning of Saturday October 27th, that day […]
Category Archives: Human Rights
Racist Algorithms Exist: How Data and AI can Target Communities of Colour
by Mirusha Yogarajah A few months ago, Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony sparked widespread conversation around Facebook, technology, and privacy. It is now clear that Facebook was the enabler of significant […]
SPPG Goes to Harvard: An Inaugural Student-Driven Collaboration at the 14th Annual Black Policy Conference
By Anna-Kay Russell and Terhas Ghebretecle It all started with a Google search. After noting the lack of representation and discussions of policy issues affecting Black Canadians in the program […]
Protesting Gun Violence in America: March for Our Lives & Black Lives Matter
by Rachel Robinson Protests and demonstrations put pressure on authority figures or institutions to fulfill promises or act on long-standing issues such as gun control, but not all social movements […]
Takeaways from the 2015 #WelcomeRefugees Initiative
Shaheen Chohan As of December 2017, an estimated 11 million Syrians have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to the civil war that began in 2011. While the vast […]
Workplace Sexual Harassment: The Canadian Context
Sanya Ramnauth In the wake of a series of high-profile sexual misconduct allegations that have emerged across the United States, the issue of sexual harassment has been brought to the […]
