News Release
Toronto, April 22, 2013

Last week, despite a ruling from the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) that Sikhs wearing sport turbans could play in soccer in games under their aegis, the Quebec Soccer Federation (QSF) has decided not to implement this directive.

The facts of the matter are that the international governing body of soccer, FIFA modified its rules in 2012 to allow girls to wear hijabs of an acceptable design while playing soccer. This was also a matter of controversy in Quebec before that ruling.

News Release

Toronto, March 18, 2013

In advance of March 21, the International Day to Eliminate Racism, The Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF), in conjunction with the University of Winnipeg, is sponsoring a National and local Dialogue on Perceptions of Aboriginal Peoples in Immigrant Communities on Wednesday, March 20 at 9.am. at the University Club of the Winnipeg. Panelists will include Ron Swain of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and Abdikheir Ahmed of IRCOM.

News Release

Toronto, March 15, 2013

Survey of Attitudes towards Aboriginals Shows need for more dialogue.

According to a 2013 attitude survey sponsored by the Association of Canadian Studies and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, negative perceptions of Aboriginals have increased in frequency among since last year, particularly among English Canadians. On the other hand, at the national level, attitudes among immigrants were more positive than among non-immigrants. It was also found that in general, the more Canadians reported having contact with Aboriginals the more positive were their views.

News Release
TORONTO, February 27, 2013

Rubin Friedman, Principal Operating Officer of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and a former trainer on Hate Crimes and Hate speech commented on today's Supreme Court Decision involving Section 14 of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code dealing with the promotion of hatred based on sexual orientation.

News Release

TORONTO, February 22, 2013

On Thursday February 21, 2013, the Principal Operating Officer of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Rubin Friedman, wrote to convey congratulations to the new Ambassador to the Office of Religious Freedom.

In his letter, he stressed the importance of this new role for Canada internationally and noted the experience of the CRRF in efforts to build a common framework for interfaith participation with others in Canadian life.

He noted that the CRRF "has over the last year been leading a project on Interfaith and Belonging ...with a large number of nationally based faith organizations...supported by funding from the Department of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Canada".

Albert Lo, Chair of the CRRF, added, "In Canada we have accepted that such a common framework must be based on the Canadian values of human rights and mutual respect. As this approach may also be part of the Ambassador's work, we would be pleased to meet him to discuss our experience with these efforts and how we might be of any other assistance in his consultations with communities in Canada."

Racist posts on Twitter

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/gurdeep-ahluwalia-nabil-karim-hosted-sportscentre-backlash-appalling-134034332.html

CRRF responds to racist posts on Twitter:

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/sports-2/an-ugly-message-gurdeep-ahluwalia-and-nabil-karim-targeted-by-racist-tweets-while-hosting-sportscent.html