May 6, 2022 Globe and Mail – Patrick White ‘Shocking and shameful’: For the first time, Indigenous women make up half the female population in Canada’s federal prisons While the 50 /50 split in federally incarcerated women between non-Indigenous … [Read more...]
Police reform…
March 9, 2022 by
Mar 10, 2022 Blogger Russell Webster (UK) Strategic review of policing proposes fundamental reform - New Police Foundation report into future of policing proposes most fundamental reform for a generation This is the third of a series of reports … [Read more...]
At last…
January 5, 2022 by
Jan. 6, 2022 CBC News - Olivia Stefanovich and Nick Boisvert Ottawa releases early details of landmark $40B First Nations child welfare agreement - Agreement still needs sign-off from Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and Federal Court The federal … [Read more...]
Two ways…
September 14, 2021 by
Sept 13, 2021 – (Ed Note: I apologize for a confusing and incorrect post on Adam Capay in the September 10 edition of the newsletter. While the content was correct the incident is old and I repeated it as though it were happening now. In fact, the … [Read more...]
A long time coming…
March 23, 2021 by
Mar 23, 2021 “Spring has sprung, The grass has riz, I wonder where the flowers is?” (Bugs Bunny via David Axlerod of the Axe Files) John Howard Society Unequal Justice: Experiences and outcomes of young people in Ontario’s youth bail system The … [Read more...]
Think big!
August 21, 2020 by
Aug 21, 2020 N.Y. Times – John Roman Why Criminal Justice Reform Needs to Think Big - There are too many police officers in the US. We need patient, tolerant, unbiased, hard-headed, soft-hearted cops. But we only need a few. This article may be … [Read more...]