Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canada is often remembered as a haven for Black people fleeing slavery and oppression in the United States, a story that is true ...

Many believe slavery never existed in Canada - but the truth is far more complicated. This video uncovers how slavery was practiced in early colonial Canada and how the fight to end it began long ...

Public Safety Canada has published the 2025 Annual Report to Parliament on the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act, colloquially referred to as Canada’s modern slavery ...

Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard, shown here with a grandson, has long pushed for the nationwide designation of Emancipation Day “because it means Canada is finally recognizing and owning its full history.” ...

Canada’s proposed “modern slavery” legislation – the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (“New Act”) – is currently awaiting consideration by the House of Commons ...

A young woman lay in a rubbish cart as it jostled down the cobbled streets of Montreal, where houses, shops, a convent, and a hospital stood in ashen ruins. They parked in front of the gallows and she ...

At first glance, the resolution might seem symbolic; a statement about a past atrocity with a moral status that’s already globally accepted. But in international law, recognition is never merely ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The Underground Railroad had several “stations” across Michigan, which banned slavery in its initial 1837 Constitution. Adrian, Battle Creek, Grand Rapids, Hillsdale, Jackson, Marshall ...

Most Canadians are never taught about the thousands of slaves shipped here before slavery was abolished, but one black schoolteacher has finally won municipal support for his battle to have a slave ...

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 2020, boasts some of the strongest labor rights provisions found in any trade agreement to ...