Op-ed - Passage; Canadian Press Spread Police PR
Article critically reviews the Canadian Press article quoting Canadian police officials supposed distress in resposne to the killing of Tyre Nichols. The piece documents Canadian police killings which were omitted from the article. Read the full piece.
Op-ed - The Globe and Mail; Considering Drug Decriminalization Proposals.
Piece considers and finds flaw the drug decriminalization proposal put forward by the Canadian Association for Chiefs of Police. Read the full article.
Op-ed - Rabble; ‘Black Lives Matter’ and the summer 2020 uprisings.
Piece considers the popular, global uptake of the proclamation ‘Black Lives Matter’ amid the US uprisings against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd. The piece explores the immense implications of the phrase. Read the full piece.
Op-ed – The Globe and Mail; Inequity in the legal cannabis market.
Piece argues the presence of aspects of racial inequity in the legal cannabis market, in the context of the class-based and racially targeted enforcement of drug prohibition laws. Read the full piece.
Article – Canadian Diversity, Volume 16, No. 3. 2020; The enduring impact of British colonization of Nigeria.
The article reflects on the structural legacies of British colonialism in Nigeria, and their impact on the economy, environment, and the human rights and well-being of Nigerians, considered through the (perhaps apocryphal) phrase ‘the sun never sets on the British Empire.’ Read the full piece (on page 20.)
Op-ed – Maclean’s; Reparations for Cannabis-related charges and convictions.
Piece argues that pardoning criminal records falls far short of accounting for the impact bearing a criminal record on employment, housing, education, and more. Read the full piece.
Article – CCPA Monitor, January/February 2020; Education and Inequality
For the CCPA’s Monitor publication, I wrote a piece contesting the myth that ‘education is the great equalizer,’ arguing instead that we must proactively eliminate inequities in our society, rather than looking to education to solve the problems for us. Read the full piece (Our Schools/Our Selves, pg. 10).
Article - Broadbent Institute; Drug Prohibition Reparations
For the Broadbent Institute’s Black History Month policy series, I wrote about the importance of intergovernmental cooperation in delivering reparations for a decades of errant drug policy. Read the full piece.
Op-ed – Policy Options; B.C. 2018 Electoral Reform Referendum
Article noting some of the potential benefits PR presents to British Columbia, and what that could mean more broadly. Read the piece here.
Blog Post – Broadbent Institute; 2017 B.C. Provincial Election
Short piece for the Broadbent Institute blog on seven policy commitments the B.C. NDP made during their campaign. Published shortly after the 2017 B.C. provincial election. Read the post.