Matthew Shepard Foundation - response to 20/20 episode
[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-homophobia : Other Media : Websites ]
The Matthew Shepard Foundation provides links, a viewer's guide and information about the recent 20/20 episode asserting that this crime was not hate-motivated.
Diversity Learning
[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : British Columbia : Canada : Vancouver : Anti-homophobia : Anti-racism : Books : Film/Video : Learning Resource Guides : Websites ]
Designed for and by teachers, this website has links to hundreds of resources, lesson plans and learning activities on eliminating racism and promoting diversity that have been catalogued by subject/curricula and grade level. These lessons and activities cover a variety of topics, including multiculturalism, human rights, gender equity, global awareness and many other related issues.
A Scattering of Seeds - The Creation of Canada
[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Film/Video : Learning Resource Guides : Websites ]
A Scattering of Seeds - The Creation of Canada is a series of 52 documentary films exploring the dreams, daring and determination of Canada's first immigrants. It is a journey into the hopes and triumphs of those who built a nation, interpreted by Canada's best independent documentary filmmakers.
The website includes descriptions of each episode, relevant articles, teacher resources, forums and related links.
Open Hearts – Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project
[ Categories: Anti-racism ]
"Following World War II, a group of young Jewish orphans immigrated to Canada from the devastation of Europe. Open Hearts – Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project is an online teaching exhibit that chronicles the lives of these orphans as they emerged from the events of the Holocaust into displaced person camps and eventually to new lives in Canda. This multi-media website uses the orphans' own words and artefacts as well as primary documents and photographs to provide students with a powerful learning experience about the Holocaust and the broader history of Canadian immigration during the 20th Century.
The site provides extensive support for students & teachers in middle & secondary school, social studies and language arts classrooms. The teacher's guide, web links, maps, biblio-videographies and pop-up glossary terms can be browsed online or downloaded as printable classroom materials. The bilingual site offers French teachers a valuable new resource for Holocaust Education."
(taken from the site)
BC Treaty Commission
[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : British Columbia : Canada : Organizations : Websites ]
"The Treaty Commission web site is a one-stop shop for treaty information. It includes a newsroom section, video presentations (available for viewing online), information on the 'Quick Facts' on the treaty process, teaching tools, and an easy-to-navigate resource directory."
Amnesty International Canada
[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Organizations : Websites ]
Amnesty International Canada is an excellent resource for current news and actions surrounding human rights issues. The section on Canada would provide interesting talking points in classrooms. There is Amnesty Youth which includes ways to take action, and a Resource Centre for teachers.
ayn.ca - Aboriginal Youth Network
[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Websites ]
The Aboriginal Youth Network is "a network that runs across Canada (and beyond) connecting all Aboriginal youth." They are operated for and by Aboriginal youth.
"The job of the AYN staff is to get the word out about health, education and employment opportunities for Aboriginal youth, as well as provide the latest news and events happening across our country! We also profile youth with good stories to tell, or invite them to do it in their own words, under our First Truths Section. Finally, sharing info abour our Cultures and Traditions is also something we do, since knowing your roots is definitely important."
Hate - Don't Buy In
[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Anti-homophobia : Anti-racism : Organizations : Websites ]
"Hate: Don't Buy In is an ongoing project of the Cultural Resources Unit of the Calgary Police Service with some other partners, and offers an interactive web site that includes media clips and reviews, discussion forums, and my own tips on starting an activist group."
Redefine Whitney McNally -- the proliferation of Asian stereotypes in Details magazine
[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Websites ]
This site is a response to a recent (April 2004) Details magazine article "Gay or Asian" (p.52) written by Whitney McNally:
"Help make the name Whitney McNally synonymous with the continuation and proliferation of Asian stereotypes! Help define what Whitney McNally means!!! Link this website on your websites or blogs. Let's make this the No.1 google search for Details magazine and Whitney McNally! "
"Some Missing Pages" (The Black Community in the History of Québec and Canada)
[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Learning Resource Guides : Websites ]
The Black Community in the History of Québec and Canada. Primary and Secondary Source Materials.
The Québec Board of Black Educators and the Provincial Association of Social Studies Teachers collaborated with the Ministère to "supply some of the "missing pages" in print materials most generally used by students in elementary and secondary schools. Materials that focus upon Blacks in the history of Québec and Canada help learners to understand more fully the social and cultural realities of the past centuries. These pages depict joy and sorrow, struggle and triumph, courage and determination."