The sick irony of removing the McGill encampment with private mercenaries and a bulldozer
McGill President Deep Saini’s dream come true.
Montreal is a progressive city with the most right-wing policing policy in Canada
Observations from Montreal
The city of Montreal is overfunding the police, and the SPVM still goes over budget
Last week’s city budget proposal includes a historic $63-million increase in spending on the SPVM, which has the highest number of officers per capita in Canada and overspent last year’s budget by $50-million.
A week of magical thinking about gun violence and Montreal police
A pair of daytime murders in populated areas of the city last week raised questions — and absurd theories — about the SPVM’s inability to prevent shootings.
Police are not the answer to mental health crises
The lives of people like Montrealer Pierre Coriolan could be saved by organizing alternative response teams to actually help those in crisis.
Two Montreal teenagers and the politics of sympathy
“The death of a Black child clearly means something different in a world where systemic racism and violence have, for centuries, produced disproportionate rates of Black death.”
Montreal police have a long history of doubling down in the face of criticism
Local media is full of baseless claims about officers afraid to intervene out of fear of being deemed racist.
Defund the police: Governments should listen to the people and the streets
Quebec is investing $7.5-million into the SPVM anti-gun squad, which targets the Black community for crimes that don’t involve guns.