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Two Weeks, Six Dead: Police Violence, Indigenous Dehumanization & Canadian Indifference

Michaela McGuire - Jaad Gudgihljiwah / September 24, 2024

The dehumanization of Indigenous peoples is reflected in the indifference of Canadians today – so much so that our deaths become merely passing bylines. Over a two-week period (August 29 – September 9, 2024), police have killed six Indigenous people. The details of the cases range. In two separate instances, Tammy Bateman and an unnamed […]

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The Violence of Justice Policy: Risk Assessments and the Criminalization of Indigenous People

Ashley Kyne / January 17, 2024

How do Risk Assessment processes contribute to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Canada’s criminal justice system?

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Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration for Indigenous and Black Peoples in Canada

Rai Reece / June 25, 2020

Why are Black and Indigenous communities disproportionately imprisoned in Canada? Rai Reece makes the argument for carceral redlining: the practice of identifying and targeting racialized communities for criminalization in order to maintain a white (settler) state

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Two Weeks, Six Dead: Police Violence, Indigenous Dehumanization & Canadian Indifference

Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration for Indigenous and Black Peoples in Canada

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