Racial Profiling

• Report highlights Indigenous discrimination following incident at B.C. Canadian Tire

  Dr. Les Jacobs told Global News it's "a daily, everyday experience, that they are in consumer interactions, whether they're shopping, whether they're going into a bank."

  Perspectives

  Aug 14, 2025
  
• Montreal police will now tell people they’re free to leave during street checks

  Unless a person is being detained, Montreal police will now have to tell the person they stop that they have to right to leave and that they do not have to identify themselves.

  Canada

  May 27, 2025
  
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• Rami Malek claims he was racially profiled by Los Angeles police

  'I got thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop car because someone had robbed a liquor store and stolen a woman’s bag,' the 43-year-old actor said.

  Entertainment

  Jan 20, 2025
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• Court of Appeal upholds Quebec ruling that invalidated random police stops

  Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark 2022 decision that found a law permitting random traffic stops by police led to racial profiling.

  Canada

  Oct 24, 2024
• Heiltsuk father and daughter file human rights complaint against Canadian Tire

  An Indigenous father and daughter in British Columbia are accusing Canadian Tire and its third-party security company of racial profiling and racism.

  Perspectives

  Oct 1, 2024
• ‘I can’t breathe, guys’: Ontario man accuses police in Quebec of using excessive force

  Videos of an arrest by police in Laval, Que., of a Toronto tourist have surfaced on social media, with police saying that the officers were following protocol.

  Crime

  Sep 11, 2024
• Recognizing racial profiling by police key to ‘historic’ ruling, Montreal lawyer says

  Mike Diomande says the decision released Tuesday was "historic" because it establishes that racialized people in the city were victims of profiling.

  Canada

  Sep 4, 2024
• Racial profiling by Montreal police is a ‘systemic problem’: judge

  A Quebec judge has ruled that racial profiling is a systemic problem in the Montreal police force and has awarded damages to victims in a class-action lawsuit.

  Crime

  Sep 3, 2024
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• ‘They pushed me:’ Black man says he was racially profiled by Montreal police

  A family is seeking answers from authorities after they say the aspiring professional football player was handcuffed and wrongfully ticketed in Montreal's north end.

  Canada

  Aug 28, 2024
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• Black woman says Montreal police ‘humiliated’ her, told to scrape off car tints with coin

  A retired healthcare worker who runs a Montreal food bank says she was left feeling 'shaken and angry' after police forced her to scratch off her car tints on the side of the road.

  Canada

  May 29, 2024