News 1. Crown to appeal Al-Rawi verdict “Less than a week after Judge Gregory Lenehan acquitted a Halifax taxi driver of sexual assault in a controversial decision hinging on consent, the Public Prosecution Service says he ‘could have and should have’ found the driver guilty based on multiple grounds,” reports Haley Ryan for Metro: On […]
Death, Monopoly, and Taxes: Morning File, Saturday, January 28, 2017
News 1. Death in Prison Last year at this time, I wrote about the Bell Let’s Talk campaign, and how Bell has multi-million dollar contracts on federal prison phones that allow them to charge predatory rates to prisoners and their families. I pointed out in that article that we criminalize mental illness and use incarceration instead […]