Contributors to the website

  • Ethel Archard is a communications consultant, editor, and retired manager of communications for the Canada Safety Council.
  • Sheila Arthurs has retired from a long career in the criminal justice sector, volunteers with the John Howard Society  of Ottawa and Ontario and the Collaborative Justice Program, and provides mentorship services to the Nunavut government’s Department of Justice. She is an advisor to the Smart Justice Network of Canada.
  • Magda Baczkowska is an artist and Community Leadership Fellowship recipient from the Centre for Global and Community Engagement at University of Ottawa. She developed and led a creative expression-based mental health promotion project, in partnership with the Counselling Program at the Ottawa Community Immigrant Organization (OCISO). Some images featured on the SJNC website were created as part of this project by a female student from Rideau High School in 2012
  • Lorraine Berzins, a director of the Smart Justice Network of Canada, has worked in criminal justice for 43 years, in the prison system and as a community educator advocating for changes that humanize justice for the people affected by crime and the criminal justice system.
  • Ed Buller, member of the Mistawasis First Nation (SK), was Director, Aboriginal Corrections Policy, Public Safety Canada. Retired now, he is an advisor to the Smart Justice Network of Canada.
  • Stephanie Coward-Yaskiw worked in youth corrections and with victims in the courts in the late 80s. She studied criminology and restorative justice at Carleton University, worked  with murder victims family members and the family members of people on death row in the United States, and  with The Church Council on Justice and Corrections back in Canada. Currently, Stephanie works in conflict resolution and mediation, increasing these skills in our communities so that the prevention of crime might be realized.
  • David Daubney is a former chairperson of the House of Commons Justice Committee and head of the Sentencing Reform Team at Justice Canada. He is currently Chair of Penal Reform International. He is an advisor to the Smart Justice Network of Canada.
  • John Edwards is a former commissioner of Corrections Canada. Since retiring, he has been involved with the John Howard Society of Ottawa, and is an advisor to the Smart Justice Network of Canada.
  • Danny Graham, QC, has been a senior criminal justice policy adviser to the governments of Canada, Nova Scotia, Ukraine and Jamaica, and is the Chief Negotiator for the Province of Nova Scotia in the Mi’kmaq rights and title initiative. He is a director of the Smart Justice Network of Canada.
  • Susan Haines is a self-employed consultant and an advisor to the Smart Justice Network of Canada who is currently working with the National Associations Active in Criminal Justice (NAACJ).
  • Catherine Latimer is the Executive Director of the John Howard Society of Canada, and was previously Director General of Youth Justice at the federal Department of Justice. Ms. Latimer is n advisor to the Smart Justice Network of Canada.
  • Kimberly Mann is the Executive Director of the Collaborative Justice Program in Ottawa and Co-Chair of the Ottawa Restorative Justice Network.
  • Ed McIsaac, who is a director of the Smart Justice Network of Canada, was Executive Director of the Office of the Correctional Investigator for 28 years. In 2008, the Correctional Investigator established the Ed McIsaac Human Rights in Corrections Award to recognize his and others’ outstanding contributions to the human rights of people who are incarcerated.
  • Eugene Oscapella is an Ottawa lawyer now teaching at the University of Ottawa. He was a founding member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy. He has been published widely in Canada and abroad on drug policy issues and was awarded the 2011 Kaiser Foundation National Award for Excellence in Public Policy for his drug policy reform work.
  • Candice Pilgrim is a lawyer who is currently Associate Director at the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies.
  • Jim Potts has 45 years of experience in policing with the RCMP and the Ontario Provincial Police, which have included pioneer work in cultural awareness training and advocacy on related Aboriginal issues. He is an Officer of the Order of Merit for Canadian Police Forces, Honorary Lieutenant Colonel with the Canadian Rangers and currently serves as advisor to the RCMP, Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Police College and various other government departments.
  • Farhat Rehman is the mother of three grown children and has an eight-year old grandson. She is an active member of Canadian Council of Muslim Women and the Family Council of the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, and speaks on issues relating to incarceration and mental illness. She is also a founding member of MOMS.
  • Christiane Sadeler is Executive Director of Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council  which coordinates the Smart on Crime plan for the Waterloo region.  She is also co-chair of the National Municipal Network for Crime Prevention.
  • James Scott was founding Coordinator of Ottawa’s Collaborative Justice Project,  is a victim-offender mediator for CSC’s Restorative Opportunities program and is actively involved with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is an advisor to the Smart Justice Network of Canada.
  • Steve Sullivan is a crime victim advocate who has been working directly with victims of crime for 20 years. He was the first Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, currently teaches victimology in Ottawa and is an advisor to the Smart Justice Network of Canada.
  • Emile Thérien is a public health & safety advocate and a volunteer with the John Howard Society of Canada.