Canada & Civil Rights Terminology

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Across
  1. 3. The imprisonment of Japanese Canadians in during WW2
  2. 4. discrimination and social prejudice against people with physical or mental disabilities.
  3. 5. Canada's first Black female member of a provincial legislature
  4. 6. An act or decision that treats a person or a group unfairly or negatively for reasons such as their race, age or disability.
  5. 7. Prejudice or discrimination based social-economic class.
  6. 8. standing up for what you think is right whether it is for yourself or for a cause you support
  7. 9. One who stands beside you, supports you.
  8. 11. a small community of predominantly African Nova Scotians located in Halifax, Nova Scotia from the early 1800s to the 1960s
  9. 12. Discrimination or prejudice against nonheterosexual people
  10. 14. Black trans-gender singer based in Toronto during the 1960s
  11. 17. Cruel and unjust treatment to a certain group of people
  12. 18. An unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge
  13. 19. The fear, hatred, discomfort with, or mistrust of people who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual
  14. 22. fighting against racism
  15. 24. Discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.
  16. 26. differences among people with respect to age, class, ethnicity, gender, health, physical and mental ability, and race.
Down
  1. 1. The relocation of some of Canada’s Inuit population to the High Arctic in order to establish Canadian sovereignty in the North.
  2. 2. Hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jewish people
  3. 7. Canadian civil rights lawyer and an activist in the Black community in Toronto.
  4. 10. The groups of indigenous peoples living in Canada
  5. 13. refusal to comply with or accept something
  6. 15. A raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against four gay bathhouses in Toronto
  7. 16. Special rights and advantages to a specific group of people
  8. 20. Crimes committed on the basis of the victim’s race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability.
  9. 21. The action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way
  10. 23. The act of treating someone or something as if they are not important
  11. 25. Letters representing various types of sexual orientation