Merella Fernandez

TORONTO -- A prominent Black lawyer and diversity consultant from Toronto is speaking out after the Hudson's Bay Company used her image without her permission for the Charter for Change campaign, which supports the “education, employment and empowerment” of racial minorities. On Monday, Hadiya Roderique got a call from a friend. “She said, ‘I didn’t know you’d being doing work for The Bay,’” Roderique told CTV News.

TORONTO -- Like many, Ontario artist Mike Cywink said he felt overwhelmed in the wake of news that the remains of 215 First Nation children were found buried in unmarked graves near a former Kamloops, B.C., residential school. Cywink, who is Ojibwe, felt compelled to create something that would pay homage to the victims in his art. “I was thinking, ‘How can I show the hurt that we are feeling as Indigenous people,’” he told CTV National News.