Research Database

Reducing The “Justice Gap” Through Collaboration Models For Systemic Change: Using Networks To Improve Access To Justice

This paper seeks to contribute to the discourse on designing and evolving committees for systemic change by highlighting the characteristics, values, and challenges associated with one model for collaboration: networks

The State We’re In: Addressing Threats & Challenges to the Rule of Law

The report finds that over the past decade and particularly in the last five years, the process of lawmaking has become less transparent, less accountable, less inclusive, and less democratic. Using the framework of the Venice Commission’s Rule of Law Toolkit, they assess the cumulative impact of these changes on the United Kingdom's democracy...

Welfare in Canada, 2022

Welfare in Canada, 2022 looks at the maximum total amount that a household would have received over the course of the 2022 calendar year, assuming they had no other source of income and no assets.

The report looks at:

•  The variation of welfare incomes across Canada
• The components of welfare incomes in each province and...

Experiences of discrimination in daily life among Chinese people in Canada, and their perceptions of and experiences with the police and the justice system

This Juristat article examines the experiences of discrimination in daily life among Chinese people living in Canada, in addition to their perspectives of and experiences with the police and the justice system.

Access to Justice for Trans People

Through living accounts of trans people’s interactions with the legal system, the report assesses and makes recommendations to improve access to justice for trans people in Canada.

A rising tide does not lift all boats

This paper starts with an overview of the changes in Ontario’s labour market since 2019. It uses data from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) on racialized workers to understand the impact of these labour market changes on the racialized workforce. Did improved labour market conditions benefit all workers equally? This paper analyzes...

Serious problems or disputes experienced by First Nations people living off reserve, Métis, and Inuit living in the provinces

This study compares First Nations people living off-reserve, Métis, Inuit, and non-racialized/non-Indigenous people, and highlight the disproportionate experience of serious problems and the socioeconomic and demographic factors that predict these disproportionate outcomes.

WJP Justice Data Graphical Report I

The report addresses, first, stakeholders that operate on the global stage, to continue making the case for people-centered justice at that level; second, stakeholders that operate at the country level, in order to inform policy making. To this end, country-level findings are then aggregated to provide global-level messages on the status of...

The Forgotten Ones Report

This study focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on Black child welfare survivors’  and Black families/caregivers’ experiences with Ontario’s child protection system amid the changes/restrictions made in response to the virus. In some ways, this report also illuminates what these experiences have been during the pandemic, whether directly related to...

Perceptions of and experiences with police and the justice system among the Black and Indigenous populations in Canada

This report was funded by Canadian Heritage, as part of the federal government’s Anti-Racism Strategy. In addition, it represents part of Statistics Canada’s ongoing commitment to publishing data that is disaggregated to the fullest extent possible.

Analysis is broadly separated into three sections, with the first section focusing on the...