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Canada No Safe Haven for Blacks
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
30 Sep 2019
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More than half of Canada’s Black population was born elsewhere, but disproportionate stops by police “can not only end in jail, but deportation and removal,” said Robyn Maynard, a Montreal-based writer and activist and author of “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.” Canada has been especially harsh in its treatment of Haitians attempting to enter the country, said Maynard.

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