Dismantling Systemic Racism, Transforming Lives: The City of Calgary Anti-Racism Strategic Plan 2023-2027 outlines focus areas and strategic actions for addressing systemic racism.

The Government of Canada’s plan for making Canada diverse inclusive and prosperous is outlined in Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy: Changing Systems, Transforming Lives, 2024-2028.

The Alberta Government has an Anti-Racism Action Plan, outlining the provincial government’s commitment to lead by sharing the value of diversity, removing systemic barriers to accessing government programs and services and ensuring Albertans have fair access to information, resources, services and opportunities.

The City of Toronto says that studies show that anti-Black racism is having detrimental impacts on the lives and work of people of African descent or origin, African Black Caribbean, African-Canadian, Canadians of African descent.

The City of Vancouver is working on a number of anti-racism initiatives to create a more equitable Vancouver.

The City of Edmonton’s Anti-Racism Strategy brings the community together to improve equity, end poverty, eliminate racism and make clear progress toward Truth and Reconciliation.

The Calgary Foundation has compiled resources for personal learning to explore racial equity and understand your role in promoting it.

The Calgary Indigenous Human Rights Circle has resources to put anti-racism into practice.

Subscribe to You Need this Box to receive four boxes over the course of a year with tools to spark constructive conversations about racism, learn how to act in solidarity, and create your own legacy of systemic change.

Exploring wâhkôhtowin is a board game for exploring impacts of colonialism through the story of first nations peoples, settlers, and treaties.

Browse the Micropedia of Microaggressions for commonplace verbal, behavioral or environmental slights, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative attitudes toward those of different races, cultures, beliefs, or genders.

Being an effective ally involves ongoing learning and action. The CARED Collective offers a list of anti-racism learning actions that can be undertaken individually or in groups, providing practical steps to support anti-racism efforts.

The Boys and Girls Club Toolkit contains key Anti-Racism concepts to become self-aware, recognize oppressive systems, historical implications, and small changes that can be made.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission offers practical strategies for employers to foster anti-racism and drive organizational change. It provides actionable steps and resources to create inclusive and equitable workplaces.

The Aspen Institute offers insights and practical steps for organizations to advance racial equality. It highlights key lessons learned and provides actionable strategies to create a more inclusive environment.

The Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion offers webinars and video content on various topics related to diversity and inclusion in the Canadian context.

Calgary Anti-Racism education provides resources for self-guided learners.

Racial Justice, Racial Equity, and Anti-Racism Reading List. This reading list is a starting place to find resources that speak to racial justice, racial equity, and anti-racism.

Learn more about the history of Racism and Anti-Racism in Canada.

Calgarian Dr. Gina Ko’s podcast Against the Tides of Racism podcast aims to generate awareness, foster community and create transformation on anti-racism.

Racialized the Podcast has real talks about race, discrimination and resilience featuring everyday people.

The Telling our twisted histories podcast tells stories with an aim to decolonize our minds-one word, one concept, one story at a time.

Code Switch offers a fearless conversation about race hosted by journalists of colour.

Check out this episode of the Unlocking podcast: Austin Channing Brown on I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness.

Don't Change Beliefs, Change Behaviors by Khalil Smith explores the importance of action in workplace equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.

It sounds like an impossible paradox: How do you create one big in-group without downplaying difference? These researchers believe they’ve found a way.

The Network for Public Health Law discusses the importance of understanding systemic racism and intersectionality to effectively address the issues in practices.

The City of Calgary’s work in Indigenous Relations is guided by the Indigenous Relations Office, The City’s Indigenous Policy, and the White Goose Flying Report.

The White Goose Flying Report was written in 2016 by the Calgary Aboriginal Urban Advisory Committee, an advisory committee to Calgary City Council.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation fosters and supports research on residential schools and their legacy and aims to promote new directions in research on Indigenous law and rights, Treaties, and government policy.

The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health publishes resources on anti-Indigenous Racism in Canada.

Learn more about how the Government of Canada is addressing anti-Indigenous racism in health systems.

Whose Land is a web-based app that uses GIS technology to assist users in identifying Indigenous Nations, territories, and Indigenous communities across Canada.

The Royal Society of Canada published Impacts of COVID-19 in Racialized Communities a collection of essays which resulted in 18 policy briefings and 130 informed perspectives

Exploring anti-racist practices in other municipalities, the Urban Alliance compiled anti-racism practices that could be implemented by The City of Calgary.