We hide our racism. We just go on about our lives - may I say, white Canadians go on about their lives. African-Canadians understand racism, Indigeno…

- Constance Backhouse

The Nova Scotian black community always remembered Viola Desmond - they didn't lose track of her, ever. Her memory was very much alive there, but the…

- Constance Backhouse

I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the…

- Constance Backhouse

White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege t…

- Constance Backhouse

It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old U.S. where they …

- Constance Backhouse