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The future of Ottawa’s transit after the light rail debacle
I remember the excitement I felt when Ottawa’s long-awaited light rail train finally opened to the public. But what it promised and what it delivered turned out to be two very different realities. Why did this happen, and what does this mean for the future of Ottawa’s transit?
Out of service: Creating accessible transit is a win for everyone
Have you taken the bus recently? Your answer says a lot about where you live, your income and more.
China’s transport project meets stiff resistance in Balochistan
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, part of China’s BELT and Road Initiative, has met fierce resistance in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Here, CPEC is seen as unlawful occupation of Baloch land that contravenes international human rights law.
Free to ROAM: Fare-free public transportation arrives in Alberta
One solution to the transit death spiral is to make transit free for riders and find alternative funding. In the past decade, at least six towns in Canada have made public transit free on local routes, including three in Alberta.
In clear view: Confronting Canadian police use of facial recognition technology
If you blinked, you would have missed it: Last June, Canada’s national police force was found to have broken the law when they used facial recognition technology that violated the most basic aspects of Canada’s privacy laws.
The Monitor, March/April 2022
Out of service: Reimagining the future of Canada’s public transit Download 4.2 MB In the two years since Canada’s pandemic experience began, transit ridership across…
Settler work: The ongoing history of disproportionate force
Exploring the use of disproportionate force and the rise of militarized police forces in Canada through the history of policing in Canada.
We are all Afghanistan
What happens when immigration processes are mired by misinformation on social media and capitalized on by promises sold with slick marketing tactics against a backdrop of insidious psychological warfare?
Collectively, it spawns a deep desperation.
What we deserve
Warren Urquhart discusses two important digital rights for Canadians
Canada’s smart tech future: Open cities or opaque surveillance?
New research shows that police forces across Canada are building extensive digital surveillance hubs without any public engagement. Smart city projects use very similar technologies with the same dangers, yet here residents and municipalities are increasingly implementing Open Smart City principles to avoid potential harms and strengthen public oversight. The police should not be exempt from democratic accountability and the same principles can be applied to them to rebuild it.
Peace, friendship and trust: Policing as treaty breaking
The resistance of Indigenous people, their memory of history, treaty, law, and land stewardship are being met with police violence.
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