Here, the University of Ottawa focuses on establishing security services as the diversity of population increases. In future years the service will put even more emphasis on community awareness and education programs for both students and employees. This for the intention of maintain a safe and secure campus environment. Services worked with students to increase awareness of potential risks on campus.
Highlights the fact that even though the city of Ottawa celebrates multiculturalism, there is still minor and quiet prejudice that influences the relationships of white and minorities (including blacks, East Indians and native people). A survey stated that individuals who are BIPOC had complained about the systematic discrimination in public institutions. Yet, Canadians still claim that the pride themselves on being tolerant and civilized.
The introduction to handcuffs towards post-secondary institutions in Ottawa (i.e. uOttawa and CarletonU) became more common as they believed that it was a way of ‘protecting yourself and others’. This has resulted from the number of incidents on campus that rose 8% a year with an increasing student enrolment and the fact that the hands-off policies were not effective during the respective dates.
Protection Services staff have been authorized to request proof of identity from people on campus from this period ongoing. However, the policy doesn't specify whether people are required to provide ID.
$25,000 worth of goods had been stolen from a campus residence during a holiday break. In addition, an outsider from Hull named Eric Lamoureaux (white) has caused a shooting incident on the UO campus and appeared in court several days after. Despite no one being injured in the shooting, university security staff have increased their patrols on the campus.
This articles gives proof that Yvon McNicoll, the Director of Protection of the University of Ottawa, had authoratitive power in the IACLEA. IACLEA is the leading authority for Campus Public Safety and the organization seeks diversity among invididual members, institutional members and Association
Three males assaulted a campus police officer, named Stephen Webster, at the Kosmic rave at CarletonU early Sunday, shutting down half of the event early and sending hundreds of ticket-holders home without a refund.
Because of an incident that had occurred in 2004, there was an allegation of racism after police responded to a gun call at a restaurant in Ottawa. Cops handcuffed and detained all the black men at the restaurant during a search, but no gun was ever found and no charges were laid. This formulated the idea for police to create a new policy. Many reports were made towards the police from that incident because of the hypocrisy when the Ottawa police had stated that the community is multicultural and multiethnic, though sometimes “not all of them could understand the cultural norms”.
Chad Aiken, who previously worked at Avis car rental, has been charged with fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and fraudulent concealment ."Aiken, 31, was just a teenager when he was pulled over in 2005 by Ottawa police in a traffic stop. He filed a human rights complaint against the force alleging that he was pulled over simply for driving a Mercedes while being black. The settlement of that complaint led to Ottawa police to seriously conduct a two-year collection of race data on drivers stopped by officers."
An incident happened when a young Lebanese-born Canadian student was profiled and detained for almost 13 hours at the U.S. border and was asked whether he had ties to Hezbollah, a militant group that ends up killing and attacking Americans for the need to combat abomination. This is one of the instances being a non-black student who is travelling for academic purposes off-campus, that shows how racial profiling could happen anywhere.
According to an article that discusses about freedom of speech amongst students in North America, it was revealed that not too long ago, campus suppression was rare. In 2010, it was a novelty when Ann Coulter, an American best-selling author and lawyer, had cancelled an appearance at the University of Ottawa due to aggressive protests. Terms like "snowflake," "triggering" and "social justice warrior" weren't even relevant at the time because we didn't need them.
The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) had decided to organize a campaign called 'In My Skin' to encourage dialogue about students’ experiences with racism. Although the attempt was intended for students who are in white and non-white groups to share the awareness about modern-day racism, there was still backlash on how direct and uncomfortable it was for SFUO to inclusively deal with the discrimination and political structure that is going on amongst students of colour.
Researchers found that in Ottawa, Black and Middle Eastern drivers aged 16 to 24 were stopped 6.7 times and 8.7 times more frequently, respectively. This can take an effect on how certain university students too get pulled over by campus police.
This is based on a student conference that aims to discuss about the instances of racism on both UO and CU campuses and how they could provide better information on this subject. The purpose for this conference is to spread awareness and to cancel certain stereotypes based on the colour of their skin.
This was the date when Jacques Frémont was elected as the 30th President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Ottawa. As a member of the Board of Governors, who are responsible for building trust and confidence to students of all colour towards the institution as a fiduciary. This is the first president (in my observation) that was vocal to the public audience how racism is present within and how it could be combatted with time.
Multiple incidents were showcased on the television program, The Fifth Estate, highlighting on how black individuals among the staff and students of some of Canada’s largest universities still face racial double standards and discrimination within the premises. Their names are Jordan Afolabi, Carol Sutherland and Aimé Avolonto.
Queen University alumini had came up with the idea that they will adopt a set of free-speech principles; an attempt for every post-secondary institution across North America, especially including Canada. Despite spending the past few months promoting an online petition, getting campus student groups on board and reaching out to various university representatives, Queens hadn't ruled out this brilliant idea out and it was turned down by laws of defamation and levels of conformity to a worldwide audience.
From Carleton, a student by the name of Shelby McPhee was accused for stealing a laptop and was asked for registration by two attendees. While RCMP officers investigated the scene, he decided to boldly confront the situation by speaking about it. His intention was to try to garner national attention about the issue, in the hopes of institutions to change their views of anti-racism within the system.
The University of Ottawa has launched an investigation after a black student named Jamal Boyce was carded and then handcuffed by campus security for over two hours on Wednesday for not having identification, leading to accusations of racism, racial profiling and harassment. After when Boyce had posted the skateboard incident online, Lawyer Esi Codjoe was asked by Canada's largest bilingual university to investigate the situation that had happened on June 12 and it was her duty to complete the report as soon as possible for the university to release the news in public..
Wiliston Mason, a community advisor and student at a University of Ottawa residence, said he had a confrontation with a security guard over carding Sept. 14, 2019. Mason says he was shocked that a security guard blocked his way and demanded his identification at his own University of Ottawa residence — the same place where he works as a community advisor.
A few graduates from some of Canada's largest universities have created Instagram accounts in such a way that students and alumni at two Canadian universities to detail incidents of racism and abuse that happen on their campuses.
Khadija, an organizer behind a campaign and petition, demands that Carleton University and the University of Ottawa implement a mandatory anti-racism course for all students. She hopes that such a course would prepare graduates to deal with racism in their future workplaces, whether they're Black, white, Indigenous or people of colour.
"[Lieutenant-Duval] was teaching a third-year undergraduate course with about 30 students present online, some of them students of colour, and was discussing the concept of re-appropriation. She explained that gay and lesbian communities had re-appropriated the word queer, emptied it of its negative charge and transformed it into a marker of identity. She then said that Black communities had done something similar with the n-word. She spoke the entire word out loud, however."
Based from the occasion when a professor had explicitly used the n-word, the provost is now setting an objective on how the U of O should move forward and prevent the incident from happening, after witnessing the dynamics on how the professor got his position back after dealing with the Dean .
A group of University of Ottawa students continued a sit-in Monday morning outside the office of university president Jacques Frémont, calling for structural changes on campus to combat racism. They began the protest Friday and say they’re willing to stay until they can meet with Frémont. They also want a mandatory anti-racism course for all undergraduate students and a commitment to hiring Black professors with expertise in areas such as anti-Black racism.
More than 120 hours after it began, the sit-in in Tabaret Hall’s lobby has come to an end. Despite no direct response after having to reach the president and vice-president of the campus, student protesters have decided to end the sit-in citing health and safety concerns due to the pandemic and the upcoming exam period. Student protesters have decided to utilize online services, such as uRacism, that could convey a meeting. As for the president's response, the call will be extended for nominations to the committee until the end of January to allow our Special Advisor to consult more widely with our student unions and other representative groups, our BIPOC faculty and our staff to ensure their concerns and voices are heard.”
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