Officially, Canada has no solitary confinement. But we found it uses confinement that mirrors solitary as defined under international rules on the most vulnerable prisoners - and it's using it more. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/hidden-...

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My colleague Zachary tried 75 times to reach the Ontario government about lead in drinking water. Crickets. One listed number went to an insurance company. ijb.utoronto.ca/ijb-updates/...

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A reminder for my cautious friends: by October’s end  everyone is accustomed to everywhere seeing skeletons and ghosts coffins and tombstones, but please understand none of those sights reminds people of their own mortality more than you in an N95 mask does.

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I just wonder what it says about us as a society that the lesser evil can support the elimination of entire groups of people and still be unambiguously the *lesser* evil.

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#OtD 30 Oct 1916 members of the radical @IWW union in Everett, WA, who had gone to support a strike were forced to run a gauntlet and beaten: just one of many episodes of savage repression of the working class movt in the US in the early 20th century workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...

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