Rights Commission: Inequality Reporter and Racialized Groups

rights commission: Dreamstime By Wendy Gillis News reporter Jennifer Yang Identity and Inequality Reporter Wed., May 3, 2017 Racial profiling is alive and well in Ontario, according to a new survey by the province's human rights commission with more than 1,500 Ontarians reporting experiences of being racially profiled not just by police, but also at their workplaces, schools, hospitals and shopping malls, according to Toronto Star. While police encounters remain a common situation where racialized groups have experienced profiling, respondents reported being targeted because of their race in a broad range of contexts, the Ontario Human Rights Commission writes in its new report Under Suspicion, released Wednesday. JOSHUA LOTT / New York Times file photo According to a new survey by the province's human rights commission, racial profiling is alive and well in Ontario with individuals detailing accounts of profiling at hospitals, workplaces and shopping malls. Concerns about racial profiling are broader than policing, the report says. The report is based on consultations and survey results from 1,650 individuals and organizations, gleaning wide-ranging personal experiences of racial profiling and data shedding light on the places and scenarios in which the phenomenon occurs. Racialized and Indigenous peoples may experience unwarranted heightened scrutiny in education, stores, shopping malls, housing and workplaces, on buses, subways and trains, at airports and border crossings, in health care and by private security and child welfare agencies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.