Social Policy Archives - Yellowhead Institute

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

By Ashley Kyne / January 17, 2024

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

Racism and Reclamation in Daajing Giids Llnagaay (briefly known as Queen Charlotte Municipal Village)

By Michaela McGuire - Jaad Gudgihljiwah / June 8, 2022

In 2019, an engagement process took place to discuss restoration of the place name of Dagin Giids Llnagaay, briefly known as Queen Charlotte Municipal Village. In this brief, McGuire analyzes and responds to the onslaught of racism present throughout the public engagement and its consequences.

Insolvency, Indigenous Research & the Uncertain Future of Laurentian University

By Maureen Gustafson / April 19, 2021

As Laurentian cuts faculty, staff and entire degree programs, what about research at the university? In this brief, members of the LU Indigenous community raise current and future concerns of research collaborations with Indigenous partners.

Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction in Solidarity with Indigenous Encampment Residents

By Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction / April 1, 2021

As the third wave of COVID-19 emerges, Indigenous folks who find themselves unhoused are now being threatened with violence to clear encampments, with no promise of safe, permanent housing. Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction raised a teepee on March 27, 2010 as a space for healing, community and ceremony in Allen Gardens, a gathering place for many houseless Indigenous people in the city.

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