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I live in Vancouver and I believe I was experiencing racism while looking for a placed to live. I was asked over the phone If I was Chinese, I said no and the person said that's what they were looking for. Or when I went to look at a suite and the person was east Indian and they ghosted me after seeing what I look like which happened a few times. This makes it hard to find a place to live in Vancouver considering the high population of Asian home owners. I think it may have been different while looking for apartments. This can happen to white people as well especially in a diverse city.

I am indian and i don't even find this to be offensive, tbh if i encounter someone like this i will definitely take about an hour and enjoy her gibberish...\nGod racist people are funny....

I'm sorry but where I'm from (GTA) white ppl are discriminated against all the time. I have the worst time finding apartments and I'm literally told to my face that they want indian tennants. White ppl experience it aswell

Hi chuto end of the day hard work pays you so 9 kg to lose end get good life after all not bed \nI think our indians people need to know mor how to find the jobs is the most will be nice to show that will help lot of our people good work keep it up ??

I moved to Halifax from India. Lived there 2 years, moved to Etobicoke then Kitchener, then Waterloo and now leaving in Brampton.\nIts been 7 years in Canada and 1.5 years in Brampton.\n\nWhen someone asks me why you live in Brampton, it’s unsafe city or ghetto. I am like hell no, never leaving Brampton. Brampton is safe city compare to some other GTA cities, look at statistics. Its just have bad name because of lots of south asian people.\n\nBrampton is brampton, only place I feel belonged and enjoying living in Canada with little Indian tweest. \n\nBrampton takes away our dependency on cooking during hectic days as restaurants are hell cheap, easy to find home-cooked tiffin with lots of options. Main reason easy to find Gujarati foods and other vegetarian food. Tons of pure vegetarian Indian restaurants in Brampton.\n\nGreat feelings come when you are tried and don’t want to cook and at same time don’t want to eat in restaurants then home-cooked food is always available to your neighbourhood for just 6-7 dollar.

5 Dollars for sugarcane juice and in India same juice in 20 Rupees and this is not even a Dollar. Really Never forget our Mother(Motherland) no matter what the circumstance is... I'm not saying that India has no problems. Every country have so many problems. Life is a roller coaster ride, in India everybody can find their own way to live a life whether a poor person or a rich. Being Indian is my dream and I'm living my dream right now and it Will be my dream for the next life.

with respect to the job situation I am not really surprised at all. The higher up you go in terms of qualifications requirements is the less likely you are to find discrimination based on names in Toronto. \n\nThe real discrimination is at the bottom of the pay scale where the people making the decisions are less likely to be university educated and more likely to be say a white forklift driver who came up through the ranks and has been promoted through length of service rather than and specific qualification. He is likely tp still hold on to that Èthey are taking our jobs È mentality.\n\nAnother thing to consider in this Ontario/Toronto employment thing too is this. Ethnic employers tend to discriminated HEAVILY against anyone who is not of their ethnicity. The Chinese hire almost exclusively Chinese, partly because they can pay them less than minimum wage and get away with it. Indian employers hire almost exclusively Indians for the same reasons but additionally because they can get away with any number of safety violations because Indian workers tolerate and in fact tend to violate those safety codes in a normal situation anyway.\n\nThe same with Portuguese construction workers, they can pay them way less, get them to violate construction codes and cut corner on safety without being reported by or having workers complain. Polish and Romanian construction workers the same thing.

I find it strange they didn't want to include an indian with a turban or some lady in a hijab but they stuck to the traditional minorities black, native canadian and a white guy.