The rise of race segregation on Canadian university campuses

Twice a week, the University of Waterloo athletic centre suspends its usual calendar of mid-morning swim lessons, and reserves its 25-yard pool for the exclusive use of a demographic that, in their words, does not have a good “relationship with water”, writes Tristin Hopper for the National Post.

“The aim is to get more Black Folx into a space where they haven’t always been welcomed,” reads the official description for the “Black Folx swim,” a 60-minute black-only pool time. Users can swim lengths, practise diving or sign up for a lesson. But they – and all the instructors – must be “Black Folx”.

While the idea of explicitly race-segregated spaces at Canadian universities would have been unthinkable only a few years ago, recent months have seen a wave of black-only lounges, study spaces and events at Canadian post-secondary institutions.
Full report on the National Post site