Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Left Radio. On today's episode we have Robin

Maynard on to talk about her newest book, Policing Black Lives, State Violence in Canada

from slavery to the present. We really deconstruct the mythology of Canada as some multi-racial

progressive haven. We talk about the history of settler colonialism, slavery, anti-black

racism in Canada's past and present. We talk about fascist movements within the US and

their sort of meered image in Canada and just a lot more. This is a really great book.

Too often people have this oversimplified version of Canada as you know being wholly better

than the US and an alternative to it and of course many of us know that that's nonsense

but this book really lays out that history in a complete, complex way that's really important.

So I love this discussion. I think you'll enjoy this interview as well and as always if

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So having said that let's go ahead and dive into this interview with Robin Maynard on her

newest book Policing Black Lives. Enjoy.

Hi my name is Robin Maynard. I am an author, writer based in Toronto. Most recently I'm the author

of the book Policing Black Lives, State Violence in Canada from slavery to the present. I also helped

put together and do some research for the website defundthepolice.org with the research team

of Black Lives Matter Toronto and I'm working on a police defunding explainer in collaboration

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