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In March of 2017, Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, was chosen by Waterfront Toronto to develop Torontoâs Port Lands. Waterfront Toronto is an organization administering projects along Torontoâs Waterfront; it is made up of a partnership between 3 levels of government; The City of Toronto, The Province of Ontario and the Federal Government. The deal was meant to develop the eastern waterfront property known as Quayside, which is the largest area of undeveloped waterfront property in a major North American City.
On April 16th 2019 CCLA along with co-applicant Lester Brown commenced proceedings against Waterfront Toronto; seeking a reset of the Quayside Project. CCLA argued that Waterfront Toronto never had the authority to turn a Toronto neighbourhood into a data surveillance testbed nor to make policy regarding the collection, ownership, management or control of residents data. The Quayside project would permit the commoditization of personal data and let Sidewalk Labs do non-consensual mass surveillance. This is a violation of Canadianâs personal and collective privacy rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedom. CCLA argued The Quayside project was in violation of 3 sections of the Charter.
In this episode of Justice Vs., we speak to Dr. Brenda McPhail, CCLAâs Privacy, Surveillance and Technology Program Director, Dr. Ben Green author of The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future and Assistant Professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, as well as community member and advocate Lester Brown about the case CCLA brought against Waterfront Toronto.
Host: Maria Rio
A big thanks to the Justice Vs. Volunteer Team:
Writing and Research Team: Natalie Sequeira, Kate Tutu, Jeremy Zhang, Luke Ryan, Imran Dhanani, Rachael Dyal, Rachael Bridge, Leo Ghiran, Stella Racca, Sae Furukawa. Managed by Shyloe Fagan and Kelsey Miki
Audio Team: Paul Berry, Ren Bangert and Sam SĂ©guin. Managed by Farid Pesteh
Marketing Team: Arlet Vazquez, Irene Lee, Hope Arpa Chow and Lauren Sapic. Managed by Soaad Q. Hossain
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Over half of inmates held in Canadaâs provincial and territorial prisons have not been determined guilty. In this episode of Justice Vs. we look at the use of bail in Canada's criminal justice system and how it perpetuates criminal identity among even those not yet convicted of crimes. We talk to Dr. Jane Sprott and James Fauvelle. Dr. Sprott is a professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. Her research interests include the operation of the youth and adult criminal justice systems, issues around pre-trial release, sentencing in Canada, and perceptions of crime and criminal justice policies. She is currently working on a SSHRC funded project which investigates bail conditions placed on youths. Fauvelle is a third-year student working towards his Bachelorâs in Social Work at Ryerson University. He is an active member in the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation and a registered social service worker in Ontario. He focuses on âintegrating the principles, philosophies and theories of Social Service Work from an Anti-Oppressive and Social Justice framework.â The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) spoke with him a few years ago for the report Set Up to Fail: Bail and the Revolving Door of Pre-trial Detention.
Warning to listeners: this episode mentions suicide.Further Reading:
Want to learn more about bail and bail processes? Feel free to read Steps to Justiceâs comprehensive guide! - https://stepstojustice.ca/questions/criminal-law/what-bail-hearing
Interested in CCLAâs take on bail? Hereâs our report from 2014 about bail practices in Canada. - https://ccla.org/cclanewsite/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Set-up-to-fail-FINAL.pdf
Click here for the most recent issue of Criminological Highlights, a monthly comprehensive report on fascinating criminological research! As recommended by Jane Sprott in our bail episode - https://www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/research-publications/faculty-publications/criminological-highlights-vol-19-no-1-%E2%80%93-december-2020
Call to Action:
Check out these webinars from the Toronto Prisonersâ Rights Project to hear more experiences from those affected by our criminal justice system. https://www.torontoprisonersrightsproject.org/new-page
Want to get directly involved? Volunteer with the John Howard Society or Elizabeth Fry Society,who both do fantastic work with criminal justice. -
https://johnhoward.on.ca/jhs-ontario/volunteer/
https://efrytoronto.org/volunteer
Host: Maria RioA big thanks to the Justice Vs. Volunteer Team:
Writing and Research Team: Natalie Sequeira, Kate Tutu, Jeremy Zhang, Luke Ryan, Imran Dhanani, Rachael Dyal, Rachael Bridge, Leo Ghiran, Stella Racca, Sae Furukawa. Managed by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry, Eilish Waller, Shyloe Fagan and Kelsey Miki
Audio Team: Paul Berry, Ren Bangert and Sam SĂ©guin. Managed by Farid Pesteh
Marketing Team: Arlet Vazquez, Irene Lee, Hope Arpa Chow and Lauren Sapic. Managed by Soaad QahhÄr Hossain
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Warning to listeners: this episode contains descriptions of physical and psychological abuse, self harm, and suicide. The United Nations has declared solitary confinement to be a form of torture, so why do Canadian prisons still employ the practice? Today, Justice Vs. looks at how and why solitary confinement is used within the Canadian criminal justice system and the impact it has on those who are subjected to it. We speak with Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, director of CCLAâs Expression and Equality programs, and Rachel Fayter, a PhD. candidate in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, who describes her experience being held in prolonged solitary confinement and her academic work investigating itâs particular impact on women and those experiencing mental illness.
General Info â Segregation
The John Howard Society does extensive work advocating for the rights of prisoners as well as offering reintegration services for people leaving the correctional system. For information on volunteer opportunities see: https://johnhoward.on.ca/jhs-ontario/volunteer/
PASAN is a community-based prisoner health organization which focuses on harm reduction through providing support services and advocacy to prisoners and ex-prisoners in Canada. To find out more, see: http://www.pasan.org/
The Canadian Criminal Justice Association seeks to promote more efficient, humane, rational, and equitable justice system. They can be found at: https://www.ccja-acjp.ca/pub/en/
Elizabeth Fry provides women with counselling services, employment supports, housing services, and more while subsequently advocating for a more inclusive and equitable criminal justice system. To find out how you can help, find them at: https://efrytoronto.org/.Cole, David. âFinal Report of the Independent Reviewer on the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor Generalâs Compliance with the 2013 âJahn Settlement Agreementâ and the Terms of the Consent Order of January 16, 2018 Issued by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontarioâ. February 2020. Retrieved from: http://www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/english/Corrections/JahnSettlement/FinalReportIndependentReviewer.html#MH_SR_use_of_seg
Jackson, Michael. âSolitary: A case for Abolitionâ. West Coast Prison Journal. November 2016. Retrieved from: https://prisonjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/solitary-confinement-report.pdf
John Howard Society. âSolitary Confinement Factsheetâ. 2017. Retrieved from: https://johnhoward.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Solitary-Confinement-FactSheet-Final-1.pdf
Rachel FayterFayter, Rachel. âRachel Fayter Biographyâ. n.d. Retrieved from: https://rfayter.academia.edu/
CBC Radio. âFormer Inmates Re-Invent Themselves as Criminologistsâ. March 2018. Retrieved from: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-march-18-2018-1.4579165/former-inmates-re-invent-themselves-as-criminologists-1.4579189
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Protests at the G20 and G8 Summits in Toronto went onto become the largest in Toronto's recent history, scaling at over 10,000 protestors. Ten years later, we ask: what is the legacy of the G20 protests and how do they shape protest today? To find answers, we spoke with Cara Zwibel, director of the Fundamental Freedoms program at CCLA, and Luke Stewart, an activist and professor at Sciences Po Lille in France, who was arrested at the protests and supported by CCLA in his case against police. A note to listeners: this episode contains description of police violence and sexual harassment.
Know your rights with this guide below:
Get acquainted with your right to protest, through CCLAâs protest guide! https://ccla.org/cclanewsite/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/marchrights-1.pdfFor ways to get involved and learn more about protest in Canada, please see below:
Get to know the history of dissent in Canada! https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/browse/things/communities-sociology/protests Dissent stops for nothing! If youâre going to a protest, try and follow these guidelines to keep both yourself, and those around you safe: https://uhs.berkeley.edu/how-stay-safe-while-protesting-during-pandemic Toronto policeâs recent public apology to those who were wrongfully arrested: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/10/19/we-regret-that-mistakes-were-made-toronto-police-acknowledge-unacceptable-mass-arrests-at-2010-g20-protests.htmlSubscribe and share! Learn more about CCLA here: https://ccla.org/
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Audio Editing by Ren Bangert and Paul Berry
Host: Mario Rio
A big thanks to the Justice Vs. Volunteer Team:
Writing and Research Team: Natalie Sequeira, Kate Tutu, Jeremy Zhang, Luke Ryan, Imran Dhanani, Rachael Dyal, Rachael. Bridge, Leo Ghiran, Stella Racca, Sae Furukawa, managed by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry and Eilish Waller
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In this episode of Justice Vs., we take a look into the classroom and speak with organizer Becky McFarlane to describe the fight for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion and why queer visibility is so critical for youth. Later, we speak with Kyle McGiverin, a teacher who uses his position as an educator to normalize queer experiences and produce a queer-inclusive school environment.
For resources mentioned in the podcast, please see below:
The 519 is a Toronto-based non-profit organization committed to the health, happiness and full participation of the LGBTQ2S communities. They have a multitude of in-person and online resources, such as counselling, COVID-19 Resources, Legal Clinics and activities. - https://www.the519.org/
The 519Wyvern, a Novel by Kyle McGiverin
Guest Kyle wrote the award winning novel Wyvern, available at Glad Day Bookshop and Amazon.ca. For more info, visit his website: themisterkyle.wordpress.com and the book's website: www.wyvernnovel.com.Youthline
Youthline offers confidential and non-judgemental peer support through our telephone, text and chat services. Get in touch with a peer support volunteer from Sunday to Friday, 4:00PM to 9:30 PM. - https://www.youthline.ca/. Support them at: https://www.youthline.ca/get-support/ways-we-support/For ways to get involved and join the fight for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion, please see below:
Find and Support A Local Organization!
If you would like to find an organization local to you, hereâs a catalogue of organizations across Canada supporting LGBTQ2S+ Communities. You will also see an option to donate to any one youâd like to support: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/explore/charities/category/social-services/sub-category/lesbian-gay-bi-trans-queer/Create Safe Spaces for Your Students!:
If youâre an educator or sports coach who would like to help foster a safe learning environment for students, OK2BME has compiled an excellent list of teaching resources available for free! - https://ok2bme.ca/resources/parents-educators/resources-for-schools-and-classrooms/Subscribe and share! Learn more about CCLA here: https://ccla.org/
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Follow us:Original Music by Ren Bangert.
Audio Editing by Ren Bangert and Paul Berry.
A big thanks to the Justice Vs. Volunteer Team:
Writing and Research Team: Natalie Sequeira, Kate Tutu, Jeremy Zhang, Luke Ryan, Imran Dhanani, Rachael Dyal, Rachael. Bridge, Leo Ghiran, Stella Racca, Sae Furukawa, managed by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry and Eilish Waller
Audio Team: Paul Berry, Ren Bangert, managed by Farid Pesteh
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What are your rights, anyway? Justice Vs. is a podcast that explores the ever changing landscape of civil liberties in Canada. Host Maria Rio will interview activists, lawyers, organizers and those most impacted by rights violations across the country. Through these conversations, we seek to understand: What are our rights in Canada - to protest, to security, to equality? What are the limitations on those rights and how our systems fail the most vulnerable?
Episodes to come will explore issues faced by LGBTQ2S+ youth in school, G20 Toronto mass arrests, the Canadian bail system, decriminalization of sex work, and much more. The goal with Justice Vs. is to provide people with an accessible platform to be educated on the importance of protecting civil liberties.
A big thanks to the Justice Vs. Volunteer Team:
Writing and Research Team: Natalie Sequeira, Kate Tutu, Jeremy Zhang, Luke Ryan, Imran Dhanani, Rachael Dyal, Rachael. Bridge, Leo Ghiran, Stella Racca, Sae Furukawa, managed by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry and Eilish Waller
Audio Team: Paul Berry, Ren Bangert, managed by Farid Pesteh
Marketing Team: Arlet Vazquez, Irene Lee, Hope Arpa Chow, managed by Soaad QahhÄr HossainSubscribe and share!
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Instagram - @cancivlib Twitter - @cancivlib Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/cancivlib/?ref=page_internal Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/CanCivLibOriginal Music by Ren Bangert.
Audio Editing by Ren Bangert.
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