Just before the Ontario legislature rose for its winter break, Doug Ford introduced Bill 242, the Safer Municipalities Act, which escalates the ongoing criminalization of…
August 18, 2021, has become synonymous with the willingness and ability of the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) to mobilize large-scale, violent evictions of houseless encampments….
The #StopTheSweeps coalition has been organizing for nearly 2 years now – bringing together individuals and representatives from the Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Pivot Legal Society, VANDU, and the Vancouver Tenants Union to directly confront street sweeps.
