2022-2023 Working Groups
Access to information
The Access to Information Carleton (ATI) Carleton Working Group uses Access to Information and Freedom of Information legislation to research various issues of public interest. Issues can be related to other WG areas, or determined by OPIRG members. We put the R in OPIRG.
In recent years, we have published several academic and media publications resulting from ATI/FOI requests. These publications have appeared in Policing and Society, Security Dialogue, Current Sociology, Punishment and Society, Social Movement Studies, Canadian Journal of Crime and Criminal Justice, The Dominion, The Leveller. News coverage of our research has been aired on CBC’s As It Happens, the Globe and Mail, CTV, and APTN.
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BOOKS TO PRISONERS
Books to Prisoners Ottawa shares donated reading materials to incarcerated individuals and promotes social justice campaigns in Canada. We are a volunteer run, donation based group that works with community partnerships locally with provincial institutions at OCDC, William E Hay, Collins Bay, Bath, Port-Cartier, CSC institutions from BC to the Maritime's as well as respond to individuals books request's.
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The Leveller
A publication covering news, current events, and culture at Carleton University, the University of Ottawa, the Ottawa/Gatineau region and the wider world. It is intended to provide readers with a lively portrait of their campus and community and of the events that give it meaning. It is also intended to be a forum for provocative editorializing and lively debate on issues of concern to post-secondary students, staff, and faculty as well as Ottawa residents.
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operations@leveller.ca
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Ontario Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
The Ontario Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (OCHRP) is an Ottawa-based chapter of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), a global network of Filipino and solidarity organizers dedicated to campaigning for human rights struggles and agitating for a just and lasting peace in the Philippines. ICHRP operates across Canada and the world, with members and allies across a variety of church, labour, academic, student, watchdog, farmer, cultural. and activist groups.
We aim to inform the Ottawa community about the deteriorating human rights situation in the Philippines, research Canadian connections to issues experienced by Filipinos, and mobilize our local network to push for changes that improve human rights and peoples' rights in the Philippines. We act locally whenever possible and collaborate across Canada on larger issues however possible.
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Ottawa Peace Council
Ottawa Peace Council is a chapter of the Canadian Peace Congress, which was founded in 1949 by Reverend James Endicott. We are a grassroots organization whose mission is grow the peace movement of the Ottawa area, with a particular focus on creating broad alliances and opposing imperialism. We aim to bring together like-minded people, with the hope of showing others that a world based on peace, mutual respect, cooperation, environmental protection, and social justice is both possible and worth fighting for.
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Solidarity Alliance of People Who Use Drugs
Grassroots, peer-led, unsanctioned, unaffiliated. Resiliently rooted on unceded Algonquin Land. Remembering lives lost ~ 40k. How many more? Est. Jan23.
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Hotline: +1 613-702-2849
(to request supplies)
solidarityallianceofpwud@gmail.com
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