Tag Archives: gentrification

Radio — Challenging oppressive security measures at Winnipeg’s downtown library

Joe Curnow is an assistant professor of education at University of Manitoba. Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land is an assistant professor of criminal justice at University of Winnipeg. Both are actively involved in Millennium For All, a group organizing against the forced bag searches and metal detector scans instituted in February as conditions of entry to the Millennium …

Radio — Building tenant power in Ottawa’s Herongate neighbourhood

Tammy Mast and Kenneth Aliu are residents of the Herongate neighbourhood in Ottawa and active members of the Herongate Tenant Coalition. Scott Neigh interviews them about the coalition’s ongoing work to fight mass evictions, chronic disrepair, rent increases, and gentrification in a neighbourhood containing one of the largest clusters in the country of rental housing …