Itās coming up that time of year again: Divers/Cite, Montrealās āLBGTAā pride event. As some know, but too many do not, Pride in Montreal takes place later than in most North American cities, commemorating as it does not Stonewall, but Sexgarage, an after-hours party that was subject to a violent …
thanks to Liberated Yet? for the pointer to this video The above video shows the RCMP pepper spraying a members of the Sechelt Nation on the Sunshine Coast (in “british columbia”) earlier this month.The scene was a welcome home parade for a kids’ soccer team who had just won a …
Julie Cox, holding her 4-year-old daughter Kheisha at a news conferenceyesterday, was arrested with her son Lynwald (right) after beingviolently abused by Montreal police last week Police officer’s from Montreal’s Station 25 harassed, beat and pepper sprayed a Black motorist and his mother last week, on June 13th. Here is …
According to an article in last Saturday’s Journal de Montreal, a thirteen year old girl was brought to the hospital after being thrown to the ground by police and then pepper sprayed. Here is my roughshoud translation: Unconscious, wounded and covered in pepper spray, a thirteen year old was brought …
Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of āa Few Bad Applesāby Carol Tator and Frances Henry. Published by University of Toronto Press, 2006 In their book Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of āa Few Bad Applesā, authors Carol Tator and Frances Henry ā and contributors Charles C. …
In a photo provided by Afzal Badin, he displays some of the injuries inflicted by Toronto police officers This is a story of racism and police abuse, horrible in its own right. While what happened to Afzal Badin and his family shouldn’t happen to anyone, all indications are that it …