Erica Ifill is an economist, columnist, and founder of the intersectional business consultancy Not In My Colour. There was, according to some, justice for George Floyd on April 20. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on Mr. Floyd’s neck, was...
Erica Ifill is an economist, columnist, and founder of Not In My Colour, an intersectional business consultancy that addresses the systems and policies that prevent equity at all levels in the workplace. If the makeup of an organization is such that Black employees...
Erica Ifill is an economist, columnist for the Hill Times and co-host of the Bad + Bitchy podcast. This article was originally published in the Globe and Mail on September 2, 2020. In a classic example of what the late John Lewis called “good trouble,” Montreal...
Erica Ifill is an economist, columnist for the Hill Times and co-host of the Bad + Bitchy podcast. This article was first published in the Globe and Mail on June 16, 2020. Who needs the police force when the Laurentian elite can just abuse you directly? In a nearly...
The ByWard Market has been the site of a number of recent violent incidents, including the death of a young black man on Canada Day. In the typical knee-jerk reaction of the law-and-order crowd, the proposed solution to reducing crime is not to invest in preventative...
Like Donald Trump’s latest idiotic tweet, climate change is trending. But, as usual, communities of colour are back of the bus when it comes to environmental protection in Canada. Didn’t see that coming. Like everything else, climate change and the environmental...
Earlier this month, we started seeing criticism on Twitter about the lack of diverse voices and perspectives on the SNC-Lavalin affair....
When women are given opportunities to succeed in the workplace, we know that there is something unspoken in that opportunity: Should we fail to live up to the unreasonable expectations set for us, we will be punished and likely won’t be given a similar opportunity for...
A recent panel discussion on anti-black racism at city hall was chock full of platitudes but lacked both credibility and serious prescriptions for tackling the racism black people experience in Ottawa. Last year, the City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) and Ottawa...
