Ifill: Ottawa lacks an actual plan for tackling anti-Black racism

A recent panel discussion on anti-black racism at city hall was chock full of platitudes but lacked credibility and was absent serious prescriptions for tackling the racism black people experience in Ottawa.
Last year, the City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) and Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership (OLIP) published a report on the prevalence of anti-black racism in the city’s public institutions. It detailed two major concerns: the need to recognize anti-black racism and assign institutio