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Recommendation 153:
End transit fare evasion ticketing.
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Recommendation 8:
End the policing practice of street checks; reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by police in the DTES; prohibit police from carrying and using all lethal weapons; develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences; and end the counter-charging and criminalization of Indigenous women who defend themselves or their children.
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- Access to justice ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Sexism
Recommendation 174:
End the placement of Indigenous women in solitary confinement in all prisons, and establish an independent external review of all Indigenous women in segregation placements.
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Recommendation 186:
End the medical pathologizing and diagnosing of gender identity. Train healthcare professionals to provide gender-affirming care that is safe for and respectful of trans women and two-spirit people.
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Recommendation 183:
End the health risks associated with living in the DTES by ensuring healthy environments and built-environments in all buildings, residences, and outdoors. This includes the right to:
- Clean air and clean streets.
- Green space and urban ecological systems.
- Sanitation.
- Accessible and clean public washrooms.
- Potable water.
- Functioning water fountains and more access to water sources.
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Recommendation 172:
End the current classification scale and reassess all Indigenous women currently classified at the maximum-security level using a gender and culturally-responsive classification tool.
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Recommendation 11:
End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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Recommendation 151:
End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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Recommendation 12:
End the criminalization of homelessness by eliminating bylaw infractions and criminal charges for sleeping or tenting in public spaces, and end the displacement of tent cities.
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Recommendation 152:
End the criminalization of homelessness by eliminating bylaw infractions and criminal charges for sleeping or tenting in public spaces, and end the displacement of tent cities.
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