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Originally Posted by balletomane

Though its not on the same level that the black-white issues in the United States were/are at, there are some cities in Canada with very large Aboriginal populations, who are the marginalized and oppressed group in Canada, akin to African-Americans in the US. There are four metros in Canada that have over 10% Aboriginal population, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina and Thunder Bay.
MacLean's recently dubbed Winnipeg "Canada's Most Racist City", a sad attempt at sensationalizing an unquantifiable, but pressing issue.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/w...-at-its-worst/

And the amalgamation of Winnipeg and its suburbs in the 1970s has masked the decline in inner city Winnipeg. Of course Winnipeg as a city/metro as a whole has grown since then.