Access and the law…

Sept 19, 2021 Mayfair Foundation – Advancing Justice Series (Canada) - Sabreena Delhon Beyond gatekeepers: Fostering accountable justice Delhon is advocating for the justice that eliminates poverty and wonders why is that justice so slow in … [Read more...]

Overcoming the system…

July 5, 2021 CBC News – Desmond Brown Sexually assaulted at 8, incarcerated 4 times and lost the will to live — how this woman found her stars - ‘Just everywhere I went there was ... something going on with being a victim,’ Jessica Compton … [Read more...]

No jury needed…

July 30, 2019 CBC News - Salimah Shivji Military justice system doesn't breach charter rights, Supreme Court rules The Supreme Court of Canada has decided, ruling 5-2, that the Canadian military system of justice – the usual court martial – does … [Read more...]

Side-by-side…

Feb. 5, 2018 MacLean’s – Anthony M. Davis Where criminology students study side-by-side with prisoners Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) (BC) has been engaged in a novel approach to corrections since 2011 called Inside-Out Prisoner Exchange … [Read more...]

Fake news 2.0…

May 28, 2017 Globe and Mail – Eddie Greenspon and Taylor Owen ‘Fake news 2.0’: A threat to Canada’s democracy The authors draw an interesting picture on both experience of “fake news” and the studies around what has happened to date.  Then they … [Read more...]

Get it right…

April 23, 2017 (Ed Note: Last edition gave an incorrect title for the report from the Ontario Ombudsman on police oversight: the correct title is “Out of oversight, out of mind.”  You can find the 73 page downloadable pdf at:  … [Read more...]

Another PMB

 May 10, 2013  Globe and Mail – Kim Mackrael Ottawa to support bill giving victims more access to parole hearings  Federal victims’ ombudsperson Sue O’Sullivan is apparently the source for some of the recommendations behind MP David Sweet’s … [Read more...]

RJ in Human Rights

May 1, 2013  Daily Business Buzz (Nova Scotia) Halifax fire chief apologizes to firefighters who experienced racism  Nova Scotia is the first province to legislate restorative measures in its Human Rights cases.  In this instance, several … [Read more...]