Shauna Brail

Aug 21, 2023 | spacing.ca | Andrea Gunraj |Shauna Brail |Shawn Micallef |Mary Breen

One of the first actions Toronto’s new Mayor Olivia Chow took was to declare intimate partner violence and all forms of gender-based violence a city-wide epidemic. She followed the path laid by the Renfrew County inquest into murders of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Nathalie Warmerdam. That inquest led to the declaration of an intimate partner violence epidemic in the region and sparked declarations of abuse epidemics in over 30 other Ontario municipalities.

Jul 4, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Shauna Brail

Flaw(s) in the Model: Financializing Public Real Estate, Entrepreneurializing the StateRebuilding public housing absent government funding in Regent Park was made possible because of the move to deploy an untested funding model in which the profits realized from building and selling market units would pay for the rebuilding of nonmarket units.