In July, US President Donald Trump promised to send “a surge” of federal law enforcement forces into American cities as part of a crackdown on crime. The additional troops...
It is rare that charities get headlines, try as they might to shine the light on their work. But for the last two weeks the opposite has been true...
Few pieces of legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic have attracted as much attention as Ontario’s Bill 184, the Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act, which received royal assent...
In July 2020, the NGO International Penal Reform reported that most countries have failed to protect detained individuals against COVID-19. Their failure to adequately respond to the early calls...
How a particular country allocates resources, or does not, during a pandemic affects how it evolves within the country, and sometimes in other countries and in the world. Yet,...
COVID-19 has powerfully illuminated that having a home is a matter of life or death as governments around the world have invoked stay-home policies as central to flattening the...
As calls to “defund the police” have spread around the world, we’ve seen the violence police inflict upon communities of colour. Race-based data is hard to come by in Canada,...
Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG) is down on its luck. On top of this spring’s leadership and layoff controversies, the corporation needed to be put on financial life support...
Footage of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police officers sparked worldwide movements against institutionalized anti-Black racism and the brutal injustices routinely inflicted by police upon the poor, people in...
In the wake of the anti-Black racism protests that rocked the world, Canadian governments — at the federal, provincial and municipal levels — are beginning to consider policy reforms...
