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...
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In Her New Memoir, Celina Caesar-Chavannes Gets Candid About Parliament Hill
Feb 1, 2021 | Articles
Originally published in Chatelaine on February 1, 2021. In Her New Memoir, Celina Caesar-Chavannes Gets Candid About Parliament Hill In her new memoir, Can You Hear Me Now?—out February 2—Celina Caesar-Chavannes tells her story of breaking through the glass ceiling...
Ottawa claims diversity is our strength. So why is it being sued by Black civil servants?
Dec 13, 2020 | Articles
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...
In rebuking John A. MacDonald protesters, Trudeau undermines his claims of allyship
Sep 2, 2020 | Articles
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...
Jessica Mulroney shows how privilege can be wielded
Jun 16, 2020 | Articles
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...
Ifill and Kishek: Video surveillance in the ByWard Market would hurt us all – and mostly target minorities
Jul 12, 2019 | Articles
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...
Canada’s green policies put people of colour at the back of the bus
Jun 27, 2019 | Articles
Originally published in the National Observer on June 27, 2019. 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....
Canada’s White Punditry Lets Us Down On The SNC-Lavalin Scandal
Mar 25, 2019 | Articles
Earlier this month, we started seeing criticism on Twitter about the lack of diverse voices and perspectives on the SNC-Lavalin affair....
Gee, Kishek and Ifill: Trudeau and the Liberals have lost their feminist credentials
Mar 8, 2019 | Articles
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...