Smart Justice Network: Dec 6, 2023 - Lift me up? MOMS of Ottawa resist CSC latest Public Relations campaign - The Mothers Offering Mutual Support (MOMS) have taken exception to the Corrections Canada campaign for a rosier image and penned … [Read more...]
Transparency…
June 7, 2021 by
June 6, 2021 Blogger Michael Spratt – Shocking news that the Ford government and Sylvia Jones, MPP, as of June 4, have disbanded all Community Advisory Boards. Community Advisory Boards are a part of the public surveillance of what happens in … [Read more...]
A Mother’s cry…
August 11, 2020 by
Aug. 11, 2020 (Ed Note: The speech below was by Farhat Rehman, a representative of Mothers Offering Mutual Support (MOMS) in Ottawa. Farhat’s son is incarcerated and for almost two decades she and the mothers of other incarcerated children have … [Read more...]
May 10, 2020 by
May 10, 2020 – What would Mom say... (Ed note: We are grateful to the MOMS of Ottawa for this timely and powerful reminder that besides being the centre of family affection moms are also a moral bulwark against our callous and hurtful ways of … [Read more...]
MOMS know…
November 14, 2017 by
Nov 12, 2017 The Use of Ion Mobility Spectrometer by Corrections Canada Mothers Offering Mutual Support (MOMS) is a small Ottawa group – membership is about 60 - tackling the giant of the prison system. The Ion scanner is used by CSC to vet … [Read more...]
On line hate…
January 23, 2017 by
Jan 23, 2017 CBC News - Marketplace Canadians appear to be more hateful online. Here's what you can do about it - Marketplace report suggests hateful language by Canadians online up by 600 per cent over last year The internet appears to offer … [Read more...]
Beyond Grief…
May 14, 2016 by
May 13, 2016 Montreal Gazette / Ottawa Citizen – Christopher Curtis and Charlie Fidelman Beyond grief: A history of violence This article is Part two of a series that looks at events in two Indigenous communities near Sept Iles (QC) where five … [Read more...]
Policing with technology…
May 8, 2016 by
May 8, 2016 Toronto Star – Alex Ballingall To serve, protect, watch and predict… Under the broad banner of innovation, this article invites us to consider what the future of policing will look like if we apply effective use of technology. … [Read more...]