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Sep 30, 2025

Truth & Reconciliation – Ten years Later

Photo credit: Erika Jensen-Mann and Julie Kapuscinski, Canmore Festival 2025 Ten years have passed since the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission set forth its 94 Calls to Action, a decade in which survivors, Indigenous communities, and many allies have waited for meaningful change. This anniversary isn’t simply a milestone to mark, but a moment to […]

Sep 22, 2025

Redress and Momentum: Lessons from the Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement

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Feb 01, 2025

Honouring the work, celebrating the progress

Black history is more than a single month—it’s woven into the fabric of our daily lives, influencing and enriching the world around us. The story of Black Canadians stretches far beyond civil rights movements of the recent past. It includes centuries of resilience, survival, and achievement that shaped Canada’s development. From early Black activists and […]

Dec 03, 2024

Navigating New Horizons: The Contributions and Perspectives of Multicultural Canadians

The Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) is pleased to support new research from Imagine Canada that examines the levels of giving among Canada’s six largest minority groups, the causes they support, their motivations for donating, and the factors that may limit their contributions. Conducted online in early 2024, the survey polled residents of Canada from […]

Oct 23, 2024

CRRF supports a new civic internship in the City of Saskatoon

The Canadian Race Relations Foundation is proud to support a new Civic Internship Program in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Sep 12, 2024

Nova Scotia RCMP apology: A good start

In 2019, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission released the Halifax, Nova Scotia: Street Checks Report, also known as the Wortley Report. The Report confirmed that Black people in Nova Scotia were nearly six times more likely to be stopped for street checks than their representation in the general population would predict. Five years since […]

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Jun 06, 2024

CRRF’s National Anti-Racism Fund 2024 open for new applications [Now closed]

Photo credit: Muriel Leclerc The Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF)’s National Anti-Racism Fund (NARF) is once again calling for funding applications from organizations across Canada who are planning anti-racist events and youth initiatives in 2024-2025. Over the past year, the CRRF has funded more than 160 events and youth initiatives and provided more than $1 […]

Oct 04, 2023

CRRF Welcomes Hon. Greg Fergus as New Speaker

The Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) welcomes the Honourable Greg Fergus as the new Speaker of the House of Commons and the first Black person to assume the Speakership in Canadian history. “Speaker Fergus comes to this critical role with many years of solid experience, seniority and skills necessary for the job, and we wish […]

Sep 30, 2023

Continuing along the path of reconciliation

Eight years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada shared its final report documenting the experiences of more than 6,000 residential school survivors and witnesses. Children as young as four years old were taken from their families and placed for much of their childhoods into these institutions designed for assimilation into mainstream Canadian […]