Surveillance isn't safety, it's just an acceleration of the police state that will result in more violence against vulnerable people.
Meeting people's needs is safety, and this money would be better used to supply vulnerable people with housing or other harm reduction services.
Montreal cops tear-gassed Black Lives Matter demonstrators in 2020, turning a peaceful demonstration into a riot. They tear-gassed anti-police-brutality protesters in 2025, as well as 2SLGBTQIA+ demonstrators and nearby families with children. They love tear gas, white supremacy, and brutality.
“We tried to put it in exactly the same wording as Holocaust denialism, so it's hard to understand how one can go through and be accepted and this not be.”
Parliament doesn't want denying the genocide to be criminalised because they have no plan or intention to end the genocide.
#cdnpoli
Spinster
An international tribunal has ruled that the Government of Canada’s current policies constitute an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, following a gruelling week of hearings on intergeneratio...
So far, this series has connected the efforts inside government (part 1) and police (part 2) to criminalize harm reduction activities of a grassroots nonprofit.
It has unearthed a playbook of surveillance, coordinated internal briefings, and media leaks. 1/
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Part 1 of an 11-month investigation: The dismantling of Halifax-based Out of the Cold Community Association followed the Nova Scotia government's coordinated criminalization of the organization and it...
Montreal cops are keeping serial killer style "trophies" of people and the Montreal mayor wants residents to "act responsibly."
Acting responsibly would be abolishing the whole rotten outfit. Tear it down.
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On this day in 1981, Quebec police carry out the first of two violent raids of the Listuguj (Restigouche) reserve of the Mi'kmaq people.
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 243 of The Continent
Sport is supposed to rise above politics, but this year’s Fifa World Cup has become a showcase for just the opposite: the arbitrary exercise of political power.
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#Canada #Climate #LymeDisease
ICYMI
We’re uncovering signs that the Alberta model of police-aligned crony capitalism in drug policy has already infected Nova Scotia.
See the latest on how Halifax police helped dismantle a grassroots harm-reduction org running low-barrier shelters:
drugdatadecoded.ca/out-in-the-c...
Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada called for calm and pledged that Montrealers would learn the truth about allegations of co-ordinated racist behaviour in a Montréal-Nord police unit.
This week has been a stark reminder that when we sit idly by as the climate crisis escalates, our neighbours' basements fill with sewage, community infrastructure is damaged, tennis bail sized hail falls, and thousands face days-long hydro outages. (1/2)
Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it.
His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra.
Canadians owe him a lot.
Pt 1
More cameras planned as Penticton reviews security program #Penticton
Out of the Cold staff were criminalized while running low-barrier shelters in Halifax, until they were terminated. This hit a crescendo as Halifax police were 'alerted' to union organizing – by the ag...
“It's unfortunate the senators voted it down…Residential school denialism continues to intensify and this Liberal government continues to turn a blind eye to the rising dangers and hate that are being perpetrated” said Gazan.
Public safety camera program growing into new neighbourhoods
Inuit leaders and Indigenous scholars are disappointed the Senate shot down an amendment to Bill C-9 aiming to criminalize residential school denialism. They argue Holocaust denialism is criminalized,...
