It's about time.

🧵With the introduction of Bill 18 and the Alberta Premier's comments on federal funding being unfairly distributed to liberal disciplines, my research partner and I pulled the Social Science and Humanities Research Council funding data from the past 10 years.

Taylor McNallie is being sued by Kyle Peterson (badge 5363) for posting that he assaulted a pregnant woman. We need witnesses to come forward to help her in her defense. Email [email protected]

The thing about this case in Calgary is that it's going to have massive implications for freedom of speech in Canada going forward. More people should be paying attention to Taylor's case for that reason. #CdnPoli

My awesome colleague and MA student co-published this piece. Check it out!

We should be doing more of what works and less of what doesn't. RETWEET if this matters to you.

College-in-prison programs reduce the risk of reconviction by two-thirds, while securing for students the numerous advantages inherent to education.
-- Vera Institute of Justice

The inherent conflict lies in attempting to foster healing within an environment that inherently perpetuates trauma.

Terrible. Yet another way normal human emotions are used to determine 'risk' and further criminalize people

Today, on #PrisonersJusticeDay , Free Lands Free Peoples is launching the “Prison Pandemic Papers,” a zine by the late Cory Cardinalis: Cree poet, prisoner justice advocate, and our dear friend /1

it's #PrisonersJusticeDay ! It's a solidarity movement that takes place annually on August 10. The movement began in Canada in 1974 in support of prisoners' rights and to remember all the people who have died of unnatural deaths while incarcerate.

Today is Prisoners' Justice Day! Our challenges are best addressed through intentional and supportive community building. We need decent work, housing, and education, not policing, prosecution, and prisons. #freethemall #prisonersjusticeday

In disbelief re: decision to drop all charges against Skyler Williams: 'In this Court's struggle to answer 'to what public' under 730 of the Criminal Code, I am prepared to rely on the application of Haudenosaunee law.' A rare prioritization of Indigenous over settler interests.

Every activist/organizer/concerned citizen etc. should be enraged & worried sick about what is happening to Adora Nwofor & Taylor McNallie in Alberta right now.

From the extraneous charges and convenient “clerical error” to the massive right-wing platforms demonizing two

1/8 Given the surge in interest in the Canadian federal penitentiary system in recent days, here are a few contributions published recently in the JPP for those interested in understanding the grim realities of human caging in these settings.

Great decision. As usual we are seeing pushback with the creation of a new narrative about gang recruitment - for which there is a lack of evidence. Police do not keep students safe.

'There’s just been so much more messaging on crime the last couple of years and it has coincided with people suddenly feeling unsafe.'

Cops in schools don't make kids safe