police brutality
People in Vancouver gather in solidarity for New Delhi arrests of protesters
November 2, 2026Content warning: mentions of police brutality. On October 11, people gathered on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery to draw attention to the protests in New Delhi the days before. All over India, protesters have been calling for the removal of the chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar after a nationwide review of voter lists reportedly removed about 130 million names from electoral rolls, according to CBC News. The electoral rolls, the database of people eligible to vote in a country, have been under Special Intensive Revision to remove duplicate or null entries since June 2025. However, protestors allege that…
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We are no better than our neighbours down south
January 13, 2025Content warning: mentions of the transatlantic slave trade, segregation, anti-Indigenous violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. There’s a tendency to compare Canada and the US on the issue of police brutality, and the sentiment I usually hear…
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Pass Over uses morbid humour to critique systemic racism
June 27, 2022Content warning: mention of racial slur, racism, police brutality. Pass Over at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island is a political commentary on Black men wanting a better life for themselves. Written by Antoinette Nwandu and directed by Omari Newton,…
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We aren’t safe with SFU’s security
January 8, 2021CW: Discussion of sexual assault, police brutality, death. Over the years, there have been increasing concerns about the response of SFU Safety & Risk Services (SRS) to campus incidents. Most recently, the RCMP were called on a Black…
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: There are other solutions to policing problems other than abolishing the police
July 7, 2020Dear Editor-in-Chief, Recently, The Peak published an editorial covering the debate surrounding policing in Canada, and whether the institution needs to be abolished or reformed. There’s no question that we have a problem with policing — namely the lack of…
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Abolition, not reform, is the answer to the problem of police brutality
June 22, 2020The recent prominence gained by the push to “abolish/defund the police” has mainstream politicians like Trudeau scrambling to turn these movements into a conversation about police reform. Not only does the focus on reform miss the mark of what the…
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