Today marks the thirty-first anniversary of the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Charter entrenched four fundamental freedoms: freedom of conscience and religion; freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; freedom of peaceful assembly; and freedom [...]

While Black women make up just 2.6 per cent of the female population in Canada, they comprise almost 10 per cent of the federally sentenced female population. Over the last ten years, the number of federally sentenced Black Canadians has risen by 50 per cent. In their report, “Cruel, Inhuman [...]