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Vancouver-based Spring Activator buys Future Capital to focus on marginalized communities
CEO of Future Capital Marlon Thompson poses for a photo Vancouver, B.C., on September 12, 2023. Jimmy Jeong/The Globe and Mail.
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Ex-Minneapolis officer receives nearly 5 years on state charge for role in George Floyd’s killing
FILE - Damarra Atkins pays respect to George Floyd at a mural at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, April 23, 2021. Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer to face sentencing in state court for his role in the killing of Floyd, will learn Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, whether he'll spend any additional time in prison. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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New York City agrees to pay $13-million to 2020 racial injustice protesters in historic class action
FILE - A protester is arrested on New York's Fifth Avenue by NYPD officers during a march on June 4, 2020, following the death of George Floyd. On Wednesday, July 19, 2023, New York City agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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Minneapolis police agree to court-enforced reforms three years after George Floyd protests
FILE - Protesters hold signs as they march during a protest over the death of George Floyd in Chicago, May 30, 2020. Minneapolis must enact police reforms in the wake of George Floyd's murder under a settlement agreement with the state Human Rights Department approved by a local judge Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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After George Floyd’s killing, Justice Department probe finds Minneapolis police show pattern of violating rights
FILE - Damarra Atkins pays respect to George Floyd at a mural at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, April 23, 2021. Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of Floyd's death, Attorney General Merrick Garland will be in Minneapolis on Friday, June 16, 2023, “on a civil rights matter.” DOJ spokeswoman Dena Iverson on Thursday, June 15, declined to say if the police department investigation will be the subject of the news conference at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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Montreal protesters call on Quebec to acknowledge systemic racism at rally held to denounce police discrimination
People take part in a rally, to denounce racial profiling and police discrimination while also recognizing the third anniversary of the death of George Floyd, in Montreal on Saturday May 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Coralie Laplante
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Once a conceivable idea, the defund-the-police movement is at odds with growing police budgets
TORONTO, ONT (08/29/20) — Demonstrators calling for the defunding of police marched down Bloor St. From Christie Pits to police head quarters on Saturday afternoon. The march was the second such rally in Toronto on Saturday, the first taking place at Downsview Park in North York. Rallies were held in cities across Canada Saturday, including London, Fredricton, Moncton, Halifax and Montreal, where protestors toppled a statue of John A. Macdonald. Yader Guzman/The Globe and Mail
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Ex-Minneapolis police officer found guilty of aiding in George Floyd killing
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - JULY 21: Former Minneapolis Police officer Tou Thao exits the Hennepin County Government Center, after a courthouse appearance, on July 21, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Thao is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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Universities across Canada launch spaces for Black students
Students mingle at the Black Student Lounge at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto in a handout photo. Spaces designated for students from marginalized backgrounds are spreading across Canadian universities, as officials say they are a necessary and overdue response to decades of racism on campus. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-TMU **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd, pleads guilty in tax case
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, serving time for the 2020 murder of George Floyd, appears via Zoom from a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday, March 17, 2023. Chauvin pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting, failing to file tax returns to the state of Minnesota for the years 2016 and 2017. (Minnesota Judicial Branch via AP)
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AG charges former officer in Floyd protest beating
FILE - Damarra Atkins pays respect to George Floyd at a mural at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, April 23, 2021. Minneapolis will buy the boarded-up Speedway gas station at George Floyd Square, the City Council decided unanimously on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. The area has become a protest site since Floyd, a Black man, was killed there by a white police officer in May 2020, sparking a national reckoning on racial injustice. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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Ex-cop who kneeled on George Floyd’s back gets 3.5-year term
FILE - Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng, left, and his attorney Thomas Plunkett arrive for sentencing for violating George Floyd's civil rights outside the Federal Courthouse Wednesday, July 27, 2022 in St. Paul, Minn. A judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, on the status of plea negotiations in the case of the two remaining officers awaiting trial on state charges in the murder of George Floyd. Tou Thao and Kueng face a late October trial. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP, File)
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Gayl Jones, Tommie Smith among finalists for National Book Award
This combination of photos shows "His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice" by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, left, and "Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice," a collaboration among Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile. (Viking/Norton Young Readers via AP)
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Former cop Thomas Lane gets three years in plea deal for aiding George Floyd death
FILE - This image from video shows Minneapolis Police Officers Thomas Lane, left and J. Alexander Kueng, right, escorting George Floyd, center, to a police vehicle outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis, on May 25, 2020. The two and another former Minneapolis officers are on trial in February 2022, on federal civil rights charges in Floyd's death. All three are expected to testify. Kueng took the stand Wed. Feb. 16, 2022 in the trial. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
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DEI needs to be about more than written reports and empty promises
Toronto-based DEI content writer and equity educator Kimberley John-Morgan says there’s a gap between how corporations look at DEI and “what it needs to be.” Kimberley John-Morgan poses for a photograph in Oakville, Ont., on Monday, August 22, 2022. Tijana Martin/ The Globe and Mail
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Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in killing of George Floyd reject plea deals
FILE - Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng, left, and his attorney Thomas Plunkett arrive for sentencing for violating George Floyd's civil rights outside the Federal Courthouse Wednesday, July 27, 2022 in St. Paul, Minn. A judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, on the status of plea negotiations in the case of the two remaining officers awaiting trial on state charges in the murder of George Floyd. Tou Thao and Kueng face a late October trial. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP, File)
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Two former Minneapolis police officers sentenced to jail for violating George Floyd’s civil rights
A man walks past the mural of George Floyd near the makeshift memorial of George Floyd before the third day of jury selection begins in the trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin who is accused of killing Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 10, 2021. - The first jurors were selected on March 9, 2021 in the high-profile trial of the white police officer accused of killing George Floyd, an African-American man whose death laid bare racial wounds in the United States and sparked "Black Lives Matter" protests across the globe. Former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin is facing charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with Floyd's May 25 death, which was captured by bystanders on smartphone video. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ruling may mean less time for two police officers convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 20, 2021 people raise their fists and hold a portrait of George Floyd during a rally following the guilty verdict the trial of Derek Chauvin, in Atlanta, Georgia. - Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of the murder of George Floyd, was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on July 7, 2022 on federal charges. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ex-Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane sentenced to 2½ years for role in killing of George Floyd
FILE - In this May 31, 2020 file photo, visitors make silent visits to organic memorial featuring a mural of George Floyd, near the spot where he died while in police custody, in Minneapolis, Minn. On Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2020, the Minneapolis City Council will decide whether to shrink the city's police department while violent crime is already soaring and redirect funding toward alternatives for reducing violence. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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Canadians need to keep talking about racism
Keith Neuman and Michael Adams
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Derek Chauvin to be sentenced Thursday for federal civil rights violations in killing of George Floyd
FILE - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis June 25, 2021. A federal judge will sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Thursday, July 7, 2022, for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson on Tuesday, July 5, set Chauvin's sentencing hearing for 2 p.m. Thursday in St. Paul.  (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
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Prosecutors seek 25-year prison sentence for Derek Chauvin over breach of George Floyd’s civil rights
FILE - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, on June 25, 2021. Two Minnesotans filed federal civil rights lawsuits on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, against the city of Minneapolis and former Officer Derek Chauvin, alleging they were traumatized when he used his “signature move” on them of kneeling on a subject's neck — the same way that he killed George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
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Judge reschedules trial for two ex-Minneapolis police officers charged in killing of George Floyd
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JUNE 03: People visit a memorial at the site where George Floyd was killed on June 3, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd died while in police custody on May 25, after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nine minutes while detaining him. Today Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter had been filed against 3 former Minneapolis police officers Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao in Floyd's death. Ellison also announced that charges against Chauvin were upgraded to second-degree murder. The other officer were part of the responding team. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Washington fines Del Rio $100K for comments on U.S. Capitol attack
Washington Commanders NFL football team defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, gives defensive tackle Phidarian Mathis (98) a fist bump during the team's NFL football practice in Ashburn, Va., Wednesday, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Two new federal lawsuits filed against Derek Chauvin
FILE - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, on June 25, 2021. Two Minnesotans filed federal civil rights lawsuits on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, against the city of Minneapolis and former Officer Derek Chauvin, alleging they were traumatized when he used his “signature move” on them of kneeling on a subject's neck — the same way that he killed George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
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Biden signs policing order on anniversary of Floyd’s death
President Joe Biden greets members of law enforcement after signing an executive order aimed at reforming policing practices, at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd. The order creates a national registry of officers fired for misconduct and encourages state and local police to tighten restrictions on chokeholds and so-called no-knock warrants. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
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Candlelight vigil, rally to be held in honour of George Floyd on second anniversary of his death
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - MAY 25: A statue of a raised fist stands at an intersection at the memorial now known as George Floyd Square on May 25, 2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It has been two years since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
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Ex-Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane pleads guilty to manslaughter in killing of George Floyd
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JUNE 03: People visit a memorial at the site where George Floyd was killed on June 3, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd died while in police custody on May 25, after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nine minutes while detaining him. Today Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter had been filed against 3 former Minneapolis police officers Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao in Floyd's death. Ellison also announced that charges against Chauvin were upgraded to second-degree murder. The other officer were part of the responding team. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Judge overseeing Derek Chauvin civil-rights case accepts plea deal
FILE - Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over his sentencing in Minneapolis on June, 25, 2021. Chauvin asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals in a court filing, Monday, April 25, 2022, to reverse his conviction, reverse and remand for a new trial in a new venue, or order a resentencing. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
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Derek Chauvin appeals George Floyd murder conviction
FILE - Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over his sentencing in Minneapolis on June, 25, 2021. Chauvin asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals in a court filing, Monday, April 25, 2022, to reverse his conviction, reverse and remand for a new trial in a new venue, or order a resentencing. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
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Probe launched after George Floyd’s killing finds discrimination by Minneapolis police
FILE - Minneapolis police stand outside the department's 3rd Precinct on May 27, 2020, in Minneapolis. Almost two years after George Floyd died at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers, Minnesota's Department of Human Rights was set Wednesday, April 27, 2022, to announce findings from its investigation into whether the city police department had a pattern or practice of racial discrimination in policing. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP)
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Plea deal rejected by three ex-officers in George Floyd’s death
FILE - This combination of photos provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota on June 3, 2020, shows, from left, former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. The former policer officers have been convicted of violating George Floyd's civil rights when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man was handcuffed and facedown on the street on May 25, 2020. A Minnesota judge will hear arguments Monday, April 11, 2022 on whether to allow live video coverage of the upcoming trial of the three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the murder of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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Denver jury finds police used excessive force against George Floyd protesters, awards US$14 million
Denver Police Department officers clear a man who fell to the street after they used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a protest outside the State Capitol over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, in this file photograph taken Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Denver.
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Three ex-cops convicted of rights violations in George Floyd killing
FILE PHOTO: Protestors stand outside of the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse before opening arguments of the civil trial of three former Minneapolis police officers, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights when they took part in his deadly arrest in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Miller/File Photo