Predictive Policing and AI in Canada
This blog explores how law enforcement agencies across Canada are increasingly relying on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to both prevent and target crime across the country. Specifically, this blog focuses on two emerging technologies within AI–predictive analytics and facial recognition and it explores how law enforcement agencies have utilized these innovative forms of policing to both predict crimes before they happen and solve ongoing criminal cases.
Digital Cybercrime in Canada: How Criminals Are Weaponizing the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has transformed the world as we know it. Whether it be the economy, academic research, science, finance, or healthcare, every facet of life has been touched by AI. Unfortunately, like all new inventions, AI can fall into the wrong hands. Indeed, the use of AI by criminals is a growing challenge for law enforcement and policymakers in Canada. Criminals are now utilizing AI to engage in what is coined “cybercrime.”[i] Such examples include fraud a
Tightening Bail in Canada: Will Bill C-14 Improve Safety or Deepen Inequality?
This blog examines whether the proposed Bill C-14 will improve public safety or deepen existing problems in Canada’s bail system. Governments have argued that stricter bail rules are necessary to address repeat offending and to help make communities safer, but others warn that creating tougher laws may undermine the presumption of innocence and create new pressures on the justice system. The main question is whether Bill C-14 will be creating reform that will protect the publ
Racial Disparities in Canadian Bail Decisions
Indigenous people in Canada are denied bail more often than any other group, despite bail being a constitutional right grounded in the presumption of innocence. This blog examines how the Canadian bail system disproportionately impacts marginalized communities, particularly Indigenous Canadian, and questions whether bail is truly applied equally for all accused individuals.
When Care Becomes Confinement: Rethinking Manitoba’s 72-Hour Detention Model - a podcast
Five key takeaways from a conversation with MP Leah Gazan on detention, public health, and constitutional limits. Debates surrounding public safety and addiction often focus on visible disorder and political urgency. This episode shifts the focus to how these issues are experienced on the ground, and how legal responses can unintentionally deepen the very harms they seek to address.
