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Winnipeg Police Cause Harm (WPCH) is devoted to sharing articles and personal essays that tell unique stories from across Canada related to defunding and abolishing carceral systems of policing, prisons, and migrant detention.

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A Local History of Queer Abolitionist Organizing and a Call for Police Abolition

I recently visited the Gay and Lesbian Archives [https://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/c.php?g=703093] for the first time, held at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the Univers

10 min read - Published: 3 months ago

Police Intervention in Public Demonstrations: Who Is't Doth Thee Protect?

The negative connotation attached to protesting in the dominant discourse today is due to the recent occupation of the “Freedom Convoy” in Canada, which has expanded to t

4 min read - Published: 5 months ago

Healthy Communities Survey results

In January 2022, the City of Winnipeg conducted a highly biased public engagement process regarding funding models to the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS). The City failed t

4 min read - Published: 6 months ago