A note to readers: I’m discontinuing my Weeknotes series in which I look back at the back at the last seven days. Going forward, there will be intermittent posts and of these, some will be for the future.
Author archives: Mita Williams
Weeknote 11 2021
§1 Not your Asian sidekick Let’s talk about the shootings in Atlanta. Before I begin, I want to start with this guidance from the AAJA who have provided guidance on covering this story. For an understanding of this hate crime in a Canadian context, I strongly suggest starting with Hannah Sung’s newsletter issue titled, You’ll …
Weeknote 10 2021
§1 The Windsor Police Service Uses a Disproportional Use of Force Against Visible Minorities There was a special episode on Rose City Politics released on Saturday in which Dr. Natalie Delia Deckard and Sarah Mushtaq shared perspectives on the 2020 Windsor Police Service Use of Force Report that was released in February to the WPS …
Weeknote 9 2021
§1 A World More Tender Tomorrow, March 8 is International Women’s Day. Celebrate it by reading this article by Kathryn Jezer-Morton: Day Care Makes the World More Tender. Arielle Aaronson, an American expat in Quebec, wrote, “I deeply believe the system is working here in Quebec. Universal child care has allowed women to retain careers …
Weeknote 8 2021
For all you nerds out there: each section of my weeknote has anchor tags for your link sharing needs. I have a lot of smaller sections this week: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. §1 Windsor’s lack of ambition suggests a state of decadence My colleague Ross Douthat — you may …
Weeknote 7 2021
Monday at 10am begins the special meeting of City Council to deliberate on the 2021 Budget. For a proper breakdown, I strongly recommend reading Frazier Father’s post on what he found notable from it. §1 When progress meant more money for education than police There was a time in which the City of Windsor would …
Weeknote 6, 2021
I’m going to break from tradition a bit and recap bearing witness to the muderclowns handling our pandemic to the end of this post because I’m going to try to make this weekly update a little less of a downer. §1 Is my voice “diverse”? This City of Windsor press release headline that makes me …
Will Windsor Works Work?
The City of Windsor’s Economic Development Strategy passed last Monday and of course it did because who could be against improving economic development? As we wait to see what form the Special Delivery Unit that will implement the Strategy will take, I want to bring to your attention this thread from Melinda Munro who suggests …
Weeknote 5, 2021
§1 The Third Wave I don’t put too much energy into making predictions but it is becoming increasingly clear to me that we are going to be hit with a third wave of COVID-19 in the spring and early summer and it’s going to be brutal. It is difficult to see any other outcome when …
Weeknote 4, 2021
§1 The Safety Insights Dance Earlier this week, I took a closer look at the recent deal between The City of Windsor and Ford Mobility Canada in a post called Safety Insights, Data Privacy, and Spatial Justice. §2 Trying to save their reputation, instead of lives We have long passed the point in which we …