Ending solitary confinement in Canada’s prisons, take 2
Justin Ling: Ottawa is reappointing an expert panel—disbanded a year ago because it couldn’t do its work—to study the unconstitutional use of solitary confinement in prisons
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The extraordinarily slow plan to reopen the border
Justin Ling: The public is distrustful of a reopening and the Liberals are ill-prepared. It doesn’t bode well for a return to normal anytime soon.
Where did Canada’s vaccine effort actually go wrong?
Justin Ling: An investigation into Canada’s vaccine plan shows that while mistakes were made, key criticisms around cost, deals and domestic production miss the mark
How Ontario’s health advisors handled the ’darkest day’ of the pandemic
Justin Ling: Doug Ford ignored the advice of the Ontario Science Table. Some considered resigning over the weekend. Now, will the premier listen to their plan?
How did it come to this?
Justin Ling: We are here because politicians have ignored the core facts of the COVID-19 virus and the main strategies that will clearly fight the pandemic
Canada’s public health data meltdown
When needed the most, the systems that track health and vaccines were a scattered mess. How Canada went from a world leader in public health technology to laggard.
Houses of hate: How Canada’s prison system is broken
Justin Ling: Dangerous, racist and falling apart. By nearly every metric, the nation’s penal system is not just failing, it’s making things worse.
The feds are falling well short of their goal to go electric. Will 2021 be different?
Will Ottawa finally start hitting climate change targets? Its efforts to buy electric cars suggest a bumpy road ahead.
Bill Blair orders prison data to be turned over, but does the data even exist?
Correctional Service Canada is trying to update its inmate tracking system, while the panel tasked to study solitary confinement is still waiting for any usable information
The dark side of Canada’s coronavirus response
When it comes to protecting some of the most vulnerable—prisoners and asylum seekers—Canada is not taking any extraordinary measures