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A LOOK AT - SYSTEMIC RACISM - IN EDMONTON

3 Jan 2023

• Daughters of the Empire and the Edmonton • Changes to Canada’s immigration system in the 1950s brought immigrants from Board of Trade campaigned to discourage Black the Caribbean, Africa and the Americas. [...] • 21% of the Black population aged Indigenous Employment 25 to 59 lived in a low-income situation, compared with 12% of Alberta has the fourth highest percentage (4.9%) of Low-income their counterparts in the rest of the Indigenous peoples living off-reserve in the working Prevalence amongst population. [...] 2019 • The economic immigration class is to the Economy • The more time in Canada, the more income an immigrant makes: the largest source of • Economic immigrants make an average of $51,900 in the first year permanent resident An influx of after arriving, but make $74,000 at 15 years. [...] • Youth tend to have less confidence and trust in the electoral process, and have lower levels of of Filipinos were engaged in satisfaction in democracy and politics. [...] • In 2020, the Biennial was re-thought and now 13 of 39 artists are Indigenous and/ • Under 10% of directors of Citadel Theatre or artists of colour and two of four curators productions were Black and there were no are Indigenous.
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