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Cannabis

Canada Made Weed Legal. But For Who?

October 25, 2019January 4, 2020 - by Sarah Ratchford

One year later, cannabis users are still targeted based on race. Community advocates say it’s time for reparations

Illustration of Man Running Towards a Large Technological Eye

Busted by Big Data

March 29, 2018March 27, 2020 - by John Lorinc

Algorithms could make cities safer—but they can’t protect us from policing’s worst instincts

July/August 2015 / Justice

On the Beat

June 15, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

The police have become a 24-7 backstop for Canada’s overburdened social-welfare state

Photograph of a Barney Fife impersonator by Nathan Adams

Justice

The Death Knell for Small-Town Police Departments

March 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Christopher D. Lewis

Barney Fife is a relic: modern society needs modern policing

January/February 2015 / Technology

Unmasked

December 19, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

An anthropologist hacks her way into Anonymous

A Toronto Police car in the middle of the road

Justice

The Way Forward

July 28, 2014April 14, 2020 - by John Lorinc

Will cultural changes come to Canada’s largest police service?

Three policemen holding pointed guns toward someone wearing a hospital gown

Feature / July/August 2014

Stand Down

July 16, 2014April 14, 2020 - by John Lorinc

All too often, the victims of police shootings are people with mental illness. One American city has found a solution

Justice

Shoot to Comply

June 25, 2014April 14, 2020 - by John Lorinc

More intelligent policing from Memphis, Tennessee

Cities / June 2005

Who Ya Gonna Call?

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Jake MacDonald

Growbusters, Vancouver’s grow-op police squad, regularly take on the green monster in quiet, residential neighbourhoods like this one. / Photo by Greg Meers vancouver—As she strolls through the streets of …