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Friday, February 23, 6-7 pm
Metro West Detention Centre
111 Disco Road (see directions below)
Morel D'Amour is a single mother sentenced to 90 days in jail for the crime of providing for her daughter. D'Amour took an $8/hr menial job to supplement meagre welfare benefits from 1994-96, a case of alleged "fraud" because this was the only way she could pay for her daughter's dance studies. A vindictive Judge, Gloria Epstein, decided jail was the only appropriate place for D'Amour because there was "no remorse" shown in court.
D'Amour must serve the time on weekends. Think of all the unpunished corporate crime committed daily in Canada, the billions in unpaid taxes, the crimes of governments whose policies increase poverty and then punish the poor for trying to survive, and then join us before Morel has to turn herself in at 7 pm.
TO GET THERE
From East or West on the 401: Take the 401 to Highway 427 North, get off at
Airport Rd. Turn right at Dixon, go to Carlingview, turn left and go north
to Disco Rd, turn right and go 100 metres. From 401 East, you can also take
Hwy 409 to Belfield, following it west all the way until it ends at
Attwell. Turn right, and Attwell becomes Disco.
By TTC: Take the Bloor subway to Kipling, transfer to 112F West Mall Bus
North, which stops at Disco Rd. This takes about an hour.
For more info: Toronto Action for Social Change, (416) 651-5800.
If you cannot make it but would like to write to the Judge:
Judge Gloria Epstein
Superior Court of Justice
361 University Ave.
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1T3
Canada
fax: (416) 327-5417
"The law, in its majestic equality,
forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg, and to steal bread."
- Anatole France
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This page created February 25, 2001
