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06-15-26 | Access to Justice, Criminal Law, Human Rights, Projets étudiants

La surjudiciarisation de l’itinérance : un profilage social 

Les personnes en situation d’itinérance sont souvent ciblées par les forces de l’ordre en raison de comportements liés à leur survie dans l’espace public. Ce cycle de judiciarisation accentue leur marginalisation plutôt que d’y remédier. Dans ce billet visuel, réalisé par des étudiants dans le cadre du cours Plaidoirie visuelle/Droit et cinéma, deux intervenantes de la Clinique Droit Devant exposent les mécanismes du profilage social et présentent le Programme d’accompagnement justice-itinérance (PAJIC).

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06-08-26 | Access to Justice, Criminal Law, Diversity, Student Projects

Racial profiling: a symptom of a lack of training on implicit biases

This video, created by students as part of the Visual Advocacy/Law and Cinema course, explores racial profiling in Canadian police forces from the perspective of implicit bias training. Through the testimonies of a former police officer and an intercultural mediator, it highlights the concrete effects of the lack of training and emphasize the importance of lawful police interventions that are respectful of all communities.

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11-21-25 | Access to Justice, Criminal Law, Public Law

Keys to the Court: Gurbaj Singh Multani

This documentary explores Gurbaj’s path to the Supreme Court, through his own words. A dropped kirpan that became a matter of national importance, rallied an entire community, and ignited a conversation that still resonates today.

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10-24-25 | Access to Justice, Criminal Law, Public Law

Keys to the Court: The Rodney Small Case

On an October night in 1993, teenager Rodney Small was arrested by a police officer who claimed the then 15-year-old boy had run into him with his bike and hit him. Rodney had no idea that his story would become a legal battleground for larger questions about race, policing practices in Halifax, and the impartiality of Corinne Sparks, the country’s first Black woman judge. 

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