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Canada Is a Bad Company
Police as Colonial Mercenaries for State and Capital
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In Canada Is a Bad Company author Shiri Pasternak recontextualizes the history of Canada, as the modern state was built to colonize, and this shaped the liberal capitalist institutions of this country. In the chapter, Pasternak examines the modern evolution of the relationship between the police and Indigenous peoples through examples of Indigenous resistance today and how their existence and survival challenges the ideology of conquest, removal, and dispossession of the Canadian state.
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Shiri Pasternak
Shiri Pasternak is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University and a first-generation Canadian of the Jewish diaspora. She is a member of Toronto Abolition Convergence and has been active in Indigenous solidarity movements for many years as a founding member of organizations like Barriere Lake Solidarity, Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Network, the Anti-Colonial Committee of the Law Union of Ontario, and Defenders of the Land. She is also co-founder and inaugural Research Director (2018–21) of the Yellowhead Institute, a First Nation–focused think tank based out of Toronto Metropolitan University.
