They Had to Break the Law to Try to Save Humanity (The Tyee, February 12, 2024)

So argued two BC activists in a Nanaimo courtroom. How their ‘necessity defence’ changes legal history and climate protest in Canada. A Tyee special report. Click to read the full article as originally published on The Tyee. Just after noon on August 4, 2023, a boisterous gaggle spilled out of the Nanaimo Law Courts. A handful of supporters surrounded climate activists Howard Breen and...Read More

Ricochet: With COVID-19, it’s time to move towards prison abolition

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequities throughout our economic, political, and social systems. Perhaps nowhere is this injustice more pronounced than in our jails, prisons, and detention centres. Read More

Vancouver Sun: Kits apartment building’s final tenant in last stand against renoviction

Carol-Ann Lang is not ready to abandon her home of 37 years. “I’m not moving,” said the 68-year-old Vancouver resident, who was served an eviction notice in February, more than a year after her new landlords first tried to push her out. Lang has retained lawyer Joey Doyle, who said he is motivated to represent tenants in a “David and Goliath” situation, going through a “renoviction” while...Read More