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RCI is CBC/Radio-Canada’s multilingual service, providing audiences with an opportunity to discover and, above all, to understand and gain insight into the reality of Canadian society, along with its cultural and democratic values.

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Police officers walk outside St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London

Police officers walk outside St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, Monday, March 1, 2021. Buckingham Palace says Prince Philip has been transferred to another London hospital to undergo testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition as he continues treatment for an unspecified infection. The palace says Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was transferred from King Edward VII’s Hospital to St Bartholomew’s Hospital. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) »

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Zhimei Zhang – My View on Racism

By Zhimei Zhang, Author, Actress. Montreal, Quebec I have been living in Canada for over 30 years. Personally, I have never been discriminated against because of my skin colour, gender or age, but I have heard and seen such incidents »

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Joni Velázquez, Quebec

My name is Joni Ismael Velázquez Gutiérrez. I am Mexican. I came to a ferme [farm] to work in the livestock industry, in the milk industry. There, I can say that I experienced a certain degree of racism and verbal »

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Clelia Rodriguez, Toronto

When I came to Canada, the last thing I would have imagined was the way the police would treat us here. For me, that was a surprise. It was a wake-up call. We would always leave school as a group, »

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Vanessa Garcia, Montreal

Vanessa Garcia is part of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens since 2006. She has worked her way up through all levels of this prestigious dance company, from corps de ballet to principal dancer. Today, Vanessa is also one of the choreographers »

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Yan-Maverick Quitich

‘I am proud to be an Atikamekw from Manawan. A small leader who expresses himself with care, despite the loss of his mother tongue.’ These words full of meaning had lost their meaning for Yan-Maverick Quitich when the young Indigenous »

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Alf Bell

Alf Bell is a public relations specialist who lives in the Greater Toronto Area. He came to the Queen City in 2000 as a permanent resident. In this testimony, he chose to keep his name confidential. However, in accordance with »

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Li Xixi, director of the Chinese family service of Greater Montréal

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, incidents of discrimination against Chinese and Asians have increased significantly around the world. The city of Montréal in Quebec is no exception. Li Xixi is director of the Chinese family service of Greater »

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Mohammed Mahmoud, Montreal

Mohammed Mahmoud and his daughter Layal, residents of Montréal. Discrimination based on name and skin colour. Having names such as ‘Mohammed’ or ‘Mahmoud’ may not make life easier in the West. The Syrian-Canadian we spoke to has both. Mohammed Mahmoud »

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Hassan, Ottawa

Racial profiling and discrimination on the basis of skin colour. There are cars that cause trouble to their owners because of mechanical problems. There are also cars that are very reliable in terms of their mechanics, but cause another kind »