Interview
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April 14, 2021 
Cannabis equity activism
Tanya is a cannabis equity activist who is involved in a union drive at her workplace. In the lead up to International Weed Day (April…
Criminal Justice
Op-ed
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October 30, 2020
We keep each other safe
The public displays of violence targeting Black and Indigenous people have fueled a movement demanding the complete divestment from and the abolition of police, prisons…
News
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June 29, 2020
Toronto city council’s ‘reform’ increases police powers rather than defunding police
On Monday, June 29 Toronto city council rejected a modest 10 percent cut to the Toronto Police Service’s budget, and voted to increase police power…
Analysis
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June 25, 2020
10 Percent Is Not Enough: Defunding Toronto’s Police
Across Turtle Island, uprisings against police violence have given power to calls to defund and abolish the police. No longer able to sweep police conduct…
News
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June 23, 2020
Justice for Ejaz!
Ejaz Ahmed Choudry was gunned down by police around 8 pm on Saturday after police arrived to perform a “wellness check.” Family and community members…
Analysis
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June 22, 2020
Defund and Decolonize Now!
The police killing of George Floyd has unleashed street protests across the US, Canada and elsewhere. Thousands hit the streets of Toronto to march against…
News
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June 19, 2020
Black Lives Matter Toronto demands 50% cut from police budget
Black Lives Matter-Toronto (BLMTO) mobilized an arts based direct action, stopping traffic at the intersection of Bay and College in front of Toronto Police headquarters…
Analysis
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June 11, 2020
By the Numbers: Crime, Colonialism, and anti-Black Racism
Through the continued effects of genocide and colonization on Indigenous populations, and of the transatlantic slave trade and its resulting oppression of Black populations, Black…
Review
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June 8, 2020
Abolish the Police: A Reader
Seeing history repeat itself during an unprecedented global pandemic was too much. The senseless deaths of George Floyd, D’Andre Campbell, and Regis Korchinksi-Paquet at the…
News
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June 5, 2020
Prisoners hunger strike for better conditions at OCDC
On June 4, 2020 at 3:30 pm a 31-hour hunger strike ended at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC). 14 prisoners successfully negotiated an agreement with…
Analysis
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May 27, 2020
Capitalism, Prisons and COVID-19: On ‘Surplus Labour’
Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers, legal experts, public health officials, and activists, alongside prisoners and their loved ones, have been publicly advocating…
News
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May 14, 2020
Prison is a death sentence
As COVID-19 wreaks havoc inside prisons across Canada, prison justice activists across the country launched two city-wide solidarity actions in Toronto and Ottawa, denouncing the tragic…