Martha Paynter is a nurse, nursing PhD student, and director of Women’s Wellness Within. On August 21, the prisoners at the Burnside provincial jail launched a peaceful protest, in solidarity with a large prisoner strike in the United States, to call for basic improvements in health care, rehabilitation, exercise, visits, clothing, food, air quality and […]
Prisons, Refugees, Cats
1. Dorchester Penitentiary Martha Paynter was driving through New Brunswick this weekend and texted me that she saw a billboard for the Airbnb in the old Dorchester Jail. Among the attractions listed on the website are that it was the site of the last double hanging in New Brunswick (more on that in a moment), […]
My Definition Is This: Morning File, Saturday, September 23, 2017
News Sorry for the late publication — my computer can’t handle WordPress today and kept freezing and then shut down. 1. Google Exists Black people should start carrying dictionaries, so that when we’re stopped and searched, maybe the police have chance of stumbling upon a definition of systemic racism. Robert Devet reported on the announcement at […]