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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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05-23-25 | Criminal Law, Human Rights, Student Projects

Beyond the bars: when the record closes doors

This visual advocacy video explores the often-overlooked reality of reintegration after incarceration. Through the powerful testimony of former inmate Daniel Benson and insights from lawyer Mike Allan Dyer, law students from the University of Ottawa examine what it truly means to “serve a sentence” and the challenges of rebuilding a life after years behind bars. Moving beyond the stereotypes portrayed in courtroom dramas, the project sheds light on the blind spots in our justice system and raises a crucial question: is justice, as experienced in everyday life, truly just?

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