Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Canada No Safe Haven for Blacks
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
30 Sep 2019
🖨️ Print Article

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.

Canada

Related Podcasts

BAR Radio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026
16 October 2026
In this week’s segment, we see through supposed disagreements between the US and Canada and recognize their partnership in settler colonialism, ens
Isaac Saney
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The Canadian and U.S. Partnership in Settler Colonialism, Enslavement, and Imperialism
16 October 2026
Isaac Saney is a Cuba and Black Studies specialist and historian at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Canada and the US
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Vassal State Canada Partners with U.S. Imperialist and Neo-Liberal Policies
25 July 2025
El Jones is a poet and a professor at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

More Stories


  • Freedom Rider: Time for Russiagate to End
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Time for Russiagate to End
    10 Jul 2019
    Russiagate is a scheme meant to give Democrats popular support without doing anything the public want them to do.
  • Bruce Dixon: A Giant Walks On
    Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
    Bruce Dixon: A Giant Walks On
    10 Jul 2019
    Our beloved Managing Editor is a permanent presence in BAR and in the people’s struggle for social justice.
  • Farewell, Comrade Bruce
    Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    Farewell, Comrade Bruce
    10 Jul 2019
    Bruce Dixon was anti-empire, anti-capitalist, and a champion of working-class Black America and the people at large.
  • DSA “Socialism” Conference Features US-Funded Regime Change Activists
    Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal
    DSA “Socialism” Conference Features US-Funded Regime Change Activists
    10 Jul 2019
    The DSA Socialism Conference combines calls for radical economic transformation with demonization of governments targeted for regime change by the US.
  • Theft of a Continent -- America’s Real Original Sin
    Mark P. Fancher
    Theft of a Continent -- America’s Real Original Sin
    10 Jul 2019
    Before slavery there was the theft of territory from indigenous nations followed in short order by a campaign of genocide.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us