Black employees slam Ontario Public Service for rampant, systemic racism
On his first day as a corrections officer at a Toronto jail, Glendon Thomas was barred from entering. Back in 2004 as a Black man with cornrows,…
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1 dead, 2 injured in shooting at Burnaby shopping centre
There's been another shooting in Metro Vancouver, this time at a shopping complex in Burnaby. Police on the scene at Market Crossing told CBC News one person…
Deadly shooting at Vancouver airport linked to gangs, police say
A 28-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday at Vancouver International Airport in what police believe was a gang-related killing.The shooting, which occurred mid-afternoon outside the departures…
Proposed federal justice reforms could reduce number of Indigenous, Black people in system, say advocates
Advocates for justice system reform are welcoming new proposals from the federal government to address the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous individuals and other racialized groups in…
Woman whose frozen body found after release from jail died of overdose, Sask. coroner says
Kimberly Squirrel, a mother of six from the Yellow Quill First Nation whose frozen body was found in Saskatoon in January, was a victim of the city's…
Canada and New Zealand both have hot housing markets, but only 1 has plan to cool things down
The idea that Canadian residential real estate prices are rising at an unsustainable pace is no longer just a subject for Twitter rants and COVID-era chats with…
B.C. ordered to pay $964K to former correctional officer targeted for being Black
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the province to pay compensation of almost a million dollars to a former corrections officer who was targeted on the…
Jail guards scanned him as negative for drugs. He died hours later with fentanyl hidden in his body
Ever since her son died of a massive fentanyl overdose behind bars, Angela Vos has been kept awake at night by a single question: How did Jordan…
Penitentiary staff arrested in killing of Indigenous inmate in St. John’s
Police have arrested an undisclosed number of correctional officers in connection to the death of Jonathan Henoche, an Indigenous man who was housed at Her Majesty's Penitentiary…
Case challenges ‘horrific’ prison surveillance some consider harsher than solitary confinement
Advocates for women in prison are heading to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Truro, N.S., on Monday, aiming to end a practice they say "amounts to…
Ontario woman sidelined from parole reviews for man who murdered her father
An Oshawa, Ont., woman whose father was murdered nearly 30 years ago says she's being left out of the legal process that may soon grant the convicted…