School board, council and other institutions aren’t taking needed actions on racism, warns official advisory group.

Katie Hyslop 10 Jul 2020 | TheTyee.ca

Vancouver is getting failing grades from its own Indigenous advisory committee six years after it pledged to become the “City of Reconciliation.”

And the current council has failed to act in a meaningful way in its first 20 months, said Penny Kerrigan, a member of the Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Advisory Committee.

To combat racism, universities need to stop focusing on incidents and overhaul the structures that perpetuate them