“White saviourism turns people into projects; trauma and personal stories into fundraising campaigns; communities and marginalized groups into lucrative ‘causes.’ Justice sees people in the…
All policing is violence, and all forces kill. This includes private police and security guards, as I have documented previously. It also includes transit police,…
Binesi Ogichidaa is an outspoken advocate for Prison abolition and the rights of Indigenous Women. She is an organizer with Fund our Communities Defund the…
Content Warning: Police killing of an Indigenous man and use of dogs as weapons. On July 8, 2021, RCMP officers surrounded Jared (Jay) Lowndes in…
Police are straight up class enemies. Modern policing emerged with capitalism as a crucial weapon of capital against the working class. Its purpose is, as…
While calls to defund police have spread across Canada, police budgets have actually been growing, often substantially. Police have deployed a range of fear campaigns…
The call to defund the police became a defining moment in the political history of Turtle Island during 2020. In Canada, people took to the…
It has been over a year since Regis Korchinski-Paquet died at the hands of the police after her family called 911 for mental health distress….
In response to community calls to defund police and fund necessary social resources, cities across the country have instituted “layered policing.” From Lethbridge to Saskatoon…
To better understand the Defund Toronto Police Services campaign of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)-Toronto, Spring Magazine interviewed Maya Kantharupan, a mobilizer involved in…
Seventeen years after overthrowing democracy in Haiti, Canada is continuing to support a dictatorship. Our government is not just offering some vague assistance, but rather…
On February 8 Chantelle Krupka and Michael Headley shared their experience with police violence and medical complicity, in an even organized by Malton People’s Movement…
