Sept 25, 2017 Blogger Justin Piché - University of Ottawa and co-founder of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP) Carceral expansion and organizations that serve the criminalized Justin Piché has noted a fair amount of prison … [Read more...]
The precariat…
December 29, 2016 by
Dec 29, 2016 World Economic Forum – Guy Standing The precariat, populism and robots: is basic income a political imperative? Standing, a University of London researcher, offers a question about the need to re-frame the current assumptions around … [Read more...]
SCC appointees…
August 2, 2016 by
Aug 2, 2016 Globe and Mail – Stephen Chase Ottawa overhauls process for selecting Supreme Court justices The Liberal government thinks the way we appointment members of the SCC is too partisan and unaccountable. Starting with the replacement for … [Read more...]
Jail time?
March 29, 2016 by
March 25, 2016 Globe and Mail – Sean Fine Judge suspends cocaine trafficking sentence for indigenous man Robert McGill, 40, was convicted of trafficking with a third of a kilogram of cocaine worth about $15,000. But he is also Aboriginal and … [Read more...]
One mattress…
May 27, 2015 by
May 27, 2015 CBC News Edmonton inmate stomped to death owed $287 LRT fine - Video of eight-minute attack entered as evidence Monday at fatality inquiry Rather than pay his fine, Barry Stewart choose to spend three days in the Edmonton Remand … [Read more...]
The law and vengeance…
January 28, 2015 by
Jan 28, 2015 National Newswatch – Jim Bronskill Opposition MPs skeptical of life-in-jail plan In 2013 the federal government’s throne speech suggested they would introduce legislation to end parole for certain types of sexual assault and … [Read more...]
Canada’s Aboriginal women…
January 23, 2015 by
Jan 23, 2014 – Reuters Canada - Andrea Hopkins Canadian police fail to protect female Aboriginals: report A US based human rights group – The Organization of American States – has issued a report, two years in the making, consequent to a … [Read more...]
Study explores mental health programs for Arctic criminal courts
April 4, 2013 by
April 3, 2013 Queen’s University - Sharday Mosurinjohn Exploring Mental Health & Criminal Justice in the Canadian Arctic Priscilla Ferrazzi's research (see www.NunavutMentalHealthCourts.wordpress.com ) examines how the underlying … [Read more...]