Multicultural Space and Cbc News

cbc: That was years ago, according to CBC. But it just one example of the countless quiet, hidden abuses that she says happen daily to black women, especially when it comes to the workplace. At first she thought she had beat out the other candidates, but she soon learned that she was on top of the list for a different, much more insidious reason. "Someone asked me to work for them so they could meet their quota of having a multicultural space," Blake told CBC News. Toronto bus shelter posters target anti-black racism in hiring Could a 'blind recruitment' policy make Canada less racist City-sponsored ads hope to stem Islamophobia, prejudice against Syrian migrants It a feeling that borne out by a 2011 report from the Wellesley Institute, by Sheila Block and Grace-Edward Galabuzi, called Canada Colour-Coded Labour Market. And those are just the ones who get jobs. ​Studies in the U.S. and Canada reveal that job applicants with ethnic-sounding names are less likely to get a response than those with Anglo-Saxon names, despite having the same experience and credentials. According to the report, black women in Canada make 37 per cent less than white men, and 15 per cent less than white women. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.