July 14, 2023 – Safe in community…

July 14, 2023 – Safe in community…   Amnesty International (Canada) END VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS WOMEN & 2SLGBTQIA+ LAND AND WATER DEFENDERS IN Canada Amnesty International is trying to co-op petitioners and advocates to call … [Read more...]

Feb 8, 2023 – Housing a right…

Feb 8, 2023 – Housing a right…   Toronto Star Editorial (Feb 6, 2023) A judge’s ruling focuses attention on the homeless crisis - A court ruling that Waterloo cannot dismantle an encampment may oblige governments to do a better job of … [Read more...]

Christmas housing…

Dec 23, 2022  Lawyer’s Daily – John L. Hill Christmas cards from jail Jails and prisons defy the forced cheerfulness of the commercial Christmas season and many incarcerated persons are so adversely impacted during Christmas that they basically … [Read more...]

Colonial violence…

Dec 9, 2022  Globe and Mail – Tanya Talaga Genocide is not in Canada’s past. It is still happening, to this day The headline is in part reaction to the scene in Winnipeg where the authorities – politicians and police - are reluctant to begin a … [Read more...]

Safe third country…

Oct 9, 2022  CTV News – Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press Canada 'contracts out' obligations to refugee claimants, advocates tell top court The ‘Safe third Country agreement’ is back in the courts and whether anyone ever verifies the accuracy of … [Read more...]

Systemic racism…

May 25, 2022 News Release:  Senate of Canada The Honourable Kim Pate, C.M., and The Honourable Murray Sinclair, C.C., MSC Bill C-5 Will Not Redress Systemic Racism in Sentencing. Parliamentarians Can and Must Act Now to Ensure Meaningful … [Read more...]

Review miscarriages…

May 18, 2022 Globe and Mail – Patrick White Senators call for exoneration of 12 Indigenous women who endured ‘systemic inequality’ in Canada’s criminal justice system Is it possible that in Canada there could be a gross miscarriage of justice … [Read more...]

Mother’s Day…

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...]

More of the same…

Dec 20, 2021 CBC News – Darren Major Indigenous women make up almost half the female prison population, ombudsman says - Canada's prison ombudsman says Indigenous incarceration rates are at a 'historic high' This headline has to make us stop and … [Read more...]

An echo…

Dec. 16, 2021  CBC News – Alicia Bridges Australia looks to Canada as it launches inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women - There are hard lessons to learn from Canada's own inquiry, advocates say  The themes and comments of two … [Read more...]