Social Justice

Saskatoon homeless test site first step to halt 'catastrophic' outcome
Posted on 10 April 2020A COVID-19 testing facility for Saskatoon’s homeless and vulnerable people represents part of ...

Number of homeless growing in Nanaimo as services shrink
Posted on 10 April 2020Nanaimo social-service agencies and governments are going flat-out to arrange for extra service ...

Island Health nixes idea of putting homeless in Royal Athletic Park
Posted on 10 April 2020Island Health has scrapped plans to use Royal Athletic Park as a temporary tenting site for peo ...

More than 600 items donated to the homeless occupants of Topaz Park
Posted on 10 April 2020Topaz Park saw a 20-foot container lifted in by a crane on Wednesday morning, chock-a-block full ...

Vancouver hotel opens for homeless people who have to self-isolate
Posted on 10 April 2020A hotel in Vancouver is the city’s first private space converted into housing for the homeless bec ...

FirstOntario Centre to become temporary ‘surge’ shelter for Hamilton homeless during pandemic
Posted on 10 April 2020Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre will be the home of a new “surge” shelter to ease the burde ...

Coronavirus: Advocates for Toronto’s homeless plead for major increase in accommodations, testing
Posted on 10 April 2020Advocates for Toronto’s homeless population are pleading for urgent action to prevent a large ou ...

Feds OK Alberta's carbon tax on big industrial emitters
Posted on 11 December 2019OTTAWA -- The federal government is giving the Alberta government a passing grade for its indust ...

The industry needs scientific data to develop intelligently, and that can’t happen until political and professional biases are uprooted.
Posted on 11 December 2019Recreational cannabis markets are opening up across North America. Yet restrictions on universit ...

Some economic and reparative progress has been made, but cannabis justice is not possible until policing stops unfairly targeting Black Canadians.
Posted on 11 December 2019Ten months before cannabis was legalized last October, I asked a question: Where are Black Canadia ...

The lesson behind Canada’s most dangerous cities
Posted on 11 December 2019Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis tells a story in his 2004 Massey Lectures about a Malaysian ...

Israeli doctor fights for patients at Canada’s only women’s holistic HIV clinic
Posted on 11 December 2019VANCOUVER — As medical director of Canada’s only multidisciplinary clinic for women and chil ...

Albertans encouraged to implement calls to justice from MMIWG inquiry
Posted on 11 December 2019Every Albertan should play a role in advancing the calls to justice that came out of the Nationa ...

Remembering everyday violence against women and girls on Dec. 6
Posted on 11 December 2019It’s the National Day of Remembrance for the 14 women who were killed at the L’école Polytech ...

Law Foundation devotes over $700K in research on data collection and access to justice
Posted on 11 December 2019The Law Foundation of Ontario has distributed more than $700,000 in grants to fund projects ...

What To Do About The Increasingly Vicious Anti-Jew Campus Protests
Posted on 11 December 2019On November 20 in Toronto, Canada, York University’s Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) tri ...