A woman living in Saskatoon is bringing to light issues of racism in the Bridge City after her friends were accosted with racial slurs by a woman at a local pub.

Charlotte Mugerwa said the incident happened Thursday night at Winston's English Pub and Grill. A group of her friends were out for celebratory drinks before attending a weekend wedding. That's when a woman approached their table.

"She's quiet for a couple of seconds and then starts to have a conversation with them just about random stuff and she mentions that she loves black people," explained Mugerwa.

She started saying racial slurs and calling them the n-word and saying that they're slaves. - Charlotte Mugerwa

She noted that her friends didn't want to engage in conversation with the woman because she seemed very intoxicated.

"She got upset about that and that's when she started saying racial slurs and calling them the N-word and saying that they're slaves."

Mugerwa said she was surprised that no one from the bar's staff addressed the situation at the time.

"Nobody in the pub actually did anything about the situation — nobody got up, nobody came to them," she said. "They just all watched as she kept going and going and going."

The group had a short interaction with the woman before she was removed from the bar.

She said, looking back now, she wished more people would have intervened.

"Canada is a multicultural country and everybody is supposedly friendly and accepting," Mugerwa said. "So if that's the case, then why doesn't anybody ever intervene when this type of thing happens?

Video posted to Facebook

Mugerwa took to social media and posted a 38-second video of the woman's behaviour to her Facebook page where it was viewed over 20,000 times and shared by about 400 people.

She said she was hesitant about posting it at first because of the language, but then decided to hit publish after viewing the video a few times.

Charlotte Mugerwa's video of a woman's racist remarks at a local Saskatoon pub. 0:41

"There's people out there that don't believe that racism still exists around here and so I posted it to show people that this kind of ignorance is not OK and that nobody deserves to be talked down to in this manner, regardless of what race they are."

Mugerwa said Facebook's administration has since removed the video due to the language but she still appreciates all the messages of support that were sent to her.

Winston's pub apologizes

"To the group that was there, you know, we offer our sincerest apologies from Winston's," said Chris Beavis, one of the pub's owners.

He said he saw the video floating around social media and it was upsetting to watch.

"I watched about as much as I could stomach of it and I was kind of shocked, to be honest."

Beavis said there will be an investigation into the matter. However, the woman in the video is known to the bar and has since been banned from the property in the future.

He said others who choose to display this type of behaviour should also expect to get a lifetime ban.