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Anti-Black Racism Legal Resource Guide

Reports

Introductory

Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System (Toronto, 1995).

The Destruction Of Africville, Nova Scotia

Clairmont, Donald H & Dennis William Magill, “The Implications of the Africville Relocation” in Africville Relocation Report (Halifax: Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, 1971).

Policing

Ontario Human Rights Commission, Paying the Price: The Human Cost of Racial Profiling Inquiry Report (Toronto, 2003).
The Report of the Race Relations and Policing Task Force (Toronto: The Task Force, 1989).
Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall Jr, Prosecution, Consultative Conference on Discrimination against Natives and Blacks in the Criminal Justice System and the Role of the Attorney General (Halifax: 24–26 November 1988) (Submission of Esmerelda Thorn

Refugee Law

Canadian Council for Refugees, Report on Systemic Racism and Discrimination in Canadian Refugee and Immigration Policies (1 November 2000).

Juries

Pomerant, David, Multiculturalism, Representation, and the Jury Selection Process in Canadian Criminal Cases (Ottawa: Department of Justice Canada, 1994).

Racism, Legal Education And The Legal Profession

Errol P, Mendes, “Promoting Heterogeneity of the Judicial Mind” in Appointing Judges: Philosophy, Politics and Practice (Toronto: Ontario Law Reform Commission, 1991) 91.

Impact Of Race And Cultural Assessment (IRCA)

Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution: Digest of Findings and Recommendations (Halifax: The Commission, 1989)