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Conducted energy weapons, colloquially known as tasers, are often promoted as a less-lethal force option for police. Yet the history of tasers shows that less lethal is still lethal. Numerous people have been killed by police using a taser on them, including several by Canadian police.
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There is a recurring feature in the long running satirical Mad magazine called “Spy vs. Spy." It presents the exploits of two outrageously bumbling spies as they do more damage to themselves than to their opponent in their facrcical schemes of one upmanship. A police version of Spy vs.
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In March 2021, at least five people died through some interaction with police in Canada. This continues another deadly year in Canadian policing, with at least nine police-involved deaths in February and at least seven in January.
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On February 1, 2021, Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, announced that it was filing for creditor protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). It faces the likelihood of massive program cuts and job losses.
March 20, 2021 was the one-year anniversary of the first prisoner in Canada being confirmed to have contracted COVID-19. This signaled a horrifying confluence of the brutality of prison and the global pandemic. It has brought together the awful everyday conditions of carceral institutions, already unhealthy sites, and the intensifying health crises of COVID and deadly drug supplies.
West Moberly First Nations will be in court March 29 and 30 to seek access to all relevant BC Hydro and government documents regarding Site C safety issues and costs. The documents requested include the full Milburn report — which was commissioned by B.C.