Critical Conversation: Crime, Punishment & Alternative Forms of Justice

Miriam Henry, Mary L. Hogan, Jonathan Rudin and Nahlah Ayed

Critical Conversation: Crime, Punishment & Alternative Forms of Justice

Miriam Henry, Mary L. Hogan, Jonathan Rudin and Nahlah Ayed

7:00pm

Sunday, June 5, 2022

TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, exploring thrilling new themes for MOTIVE audiences. Each day of the Festival, authors and experts will come together to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

Enthralling stories of crime and injustice are devastating realities for many people in Canada experiencing incarceration. This is especially true for the many people from marginalized communities who disproportionately represent the prison population. The Canadian prison system offers a shocking reflection of the social and economic inequalities that underpin Canadian society, making us wonder how can we meaningfully address these inequalities, and develop approaches to administering true justice?

Miriam Henry, Assistant Crown Attorney, Toronto Northwest Justice Centre, a new and innovative court model that co-locates justice, social, health and education services for justice-involved youth; The Honourable Justice Mary L. Hogan; and Jonathan Rudin, Program Director, Aboriginal Legal Service will discuss this topic with Nahlah Ayed (CBC IDEAS).

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: June 5 at 7pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre’s main building
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $16.50 – Regular; $12.50 – Youth; or Get the All-Access Pass

This series is presented in partnership with the Provocation Ideas Festival.

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Panel Discussion

TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, exploring thrilling new themes for MOTIVE audiences. Each day of the Festival, authors and experts will come together to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

Enthralling stories of crime and injustice are devastating realities for many people in Canada experiencing incarceration. This is especially true for the many people from marginalized communities who disproportionately represent the prison population. The Canadian prison system offers a shocking reflection of the social and economic inequalities that underpin Canadian society, making us wonder how can we meaningfully address these inequalities, and develop approaches to administering true justice?

Miriam Henry, Assistant Crown Attorney, Toronto Northwest Justice Centre, a new and innovative court model that co-locates justice, social, health and education services for justice-involved youth; The Honourable Justice Mary L. Hogan; and Jonathan Rudin, Program Director, Aboriginal Legal Service will discuss this topic with Nahlah Ayed (CBC IDEAS).

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: June 5 at 7pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre’s main building
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $16.50 – Regular; $12.50 – Youth; or Get the All-Access Pass

This series is presented in partnership with the Provocation Ideas Festival.

Toronto International Festival of Authors book logo       PIF - Provocation Ideas Festival logo

Panel Discussion

Featured Authors

Miriam Henry
Miriam Henry is an Assistant Crown Attorney who has dedicated her career to supporting better outcomes for justice-involved youth. She is one of the Ministry of the Attorney General’s leading experts on Youth Criminal Justice and has over two decades of prosecutorial experience, much of it as the Crown Team Lead at 311 Jarvis, Toronto’s dedicated Youth Court. She specializes in the intersection of Child Welfare and Youth Criminal Justice and spearheaded process transformation at Community Youth Court and Aboriginal Youth Court. She is currently the Crown Lead at the Toronto Northwest Justice Centre where she was instrumental in visioning and implementing a new and innovative community youth court premised on the co-location and integrated service delivery of justice, education, health and social services in partnership with community. Her significant contributions to youth justice have been widely acknowledged and she is the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Criminal Award of Excellence for innovation in youth criminal justice; the Zenith Award for Women Advancing in Law; and the OCAA Rupert Ross Award for excellence in and commitment to social justice.

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Mary L. Hogan
Honourable Justice Mary L. Hogan, Ontario Court of Justice.

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Jonathan Rudin
Jonathan Rudin is the Program Director at Aboriginal Legal Services. He is a lawyer and has appeared before all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Jonathan has written and spoken widely on issues of Indigenous justice. His book, Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System won the Walter Owen Book Prize from the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research in 2019. A second edition of the book will be released this summer. He also plays the mandolin and sings with Gordon’s Acoustic Living Room, a group that plays regularly in Toronto and has a number of videos on YouTube.

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Nahlah Ayed
Nahlah Ayed, the host of CBC Radio’s Ideas, is an award-winning veteran foreign news reporter who spent nearly a decade in the Middle East covering the region's many conflicts, and later in London where she covered major stories from Russia's annexation of Crimea, Europe's refugee crisis; and the Brexit vote and its fallout. In 2012, her memoir, A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey From Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. Nahlah was born and raised (mostly) in Winnipeg, Canada.

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7:00pm

Sunday, June 5

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