Racial Profiling and human rights - Ontario Human Rights Commission

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Volume 14 | No. 1 | 2017

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Preface

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Shaheen Azmi, Lorne Foster and Lesley Jacobs

Renu Mandhane

The Human Rights Approach to Addressing Racial Profiling: The Activity of the Ontario Human Rights Commission Shaheen Azmi

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A review of racial profiling jurisprudence Sunil Gurmukh

Defining the Concept of Racial Profiling: A Discussion Dr. Bobby Siu

Why Police Should Collect Racial Data Lorne Foster and Les Jacobs

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“Singled out”: Being Black in the Suburbs

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Seeing Gender Differently in Racial Profiling

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Carl E. James

Andrea S. Anderson

Racial and Mental Health Profiling in Ontario: Exploring the Links Sheela Subramanian and Seble Makonnen

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Clarifying the Concept of Racial Profiling in Canada Curt Taylor Griffiths and Sara K. Thompson

“Can I Help You?” Taking Seriously Consumer Racial Profiling in Ontario's Retail Sector Tomee Elizabeth Sojourner

Contexts and Consequences of Racial Profiling on Women: Results from a Community Sample Tammy C. Landau

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Racial Profiling in the Information Age

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How to Eradicate Racial Profiling?

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J.M. Porup

Dr. Bobby Siu

Community Engagement as a Tool for Combating Racial Profiling Lorne Foster & Les Jacobs

Racial Profiling: The Unintended Outcome of Street Checks Charlene Tardiel

The Ottawa Traffic Stop Race Data Collection Project Lorne Foster, Les Jacobs and Dr. Bobby Siu

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