Stopracialprofiling

Context: In the events which followed, September 11, 2001, there was a significant increase in racial profiling practices and incidents in Canada. MARU was formed as a non-profit society in 2005 to respond to these practices and provide an informed, community engaged space in which to seek government accountability and reforms.

Stopracialprofiling.ca was initiated in 2005 as a research based, community engaged, advocacy project. It involved members of the various legal, civil society, academic, and targeted racialized groups.

The Archive page provides some guidance as to the research, media, and engagement activities which have taken place over the past almost 20 years.

2024 onwards: Moving forward, MARU is now embarking on a set of new engagement, research and advocacy initiatives. Our hope is to provide a set of connections and productive paths forward, between the post-September/2001 environment and current events which relate to racial profiling, and Islamophobia.