Media Coverage
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December 16, 2010 - newswire.ca: Kingston community steaming over KGH food decision
December 14, 2010 - Kingston Whig-Standard: Prison farm calendar selling swiftly
December 10, 2010 - Kingston Whig-Standard: Tories hurting credibility of Kingston Candidate
December 3, 2010 - Margaret Atwood: 12 hopeful gifts for the holidays, including the PEN prison farm herd co-op
November 16, 2010 - Kingston Whig-Standard: Prison farm protesters opting for trial
November 16, 2010 - CKWS News: Prison Farm Court (Video)
November 16, 2010 - Medicine Hat news.com: Protesters charges in demonstration to save prison farms await trial
November 15, 2010 - Canada.com: Prison farm protesters choose trial over 'slap on the wrist'
November 13, 2010 - Lexington Herald-Leader: South Carolina's largest dairy will be at prison
November 12, 2010 - CBC Fifth Estate: Behind the Wall - the death of Ashley Smith
November 4, 2010 - Kingston Life: Acts of Conviction
September 22, 2010 - CBC News: Toews on prison farms: Thanks, but no thanks
September 17, 2010 - CBC Radio One - As It Happens: (audio) Interview with Dr. Michael Hurley (show website here)
September 13, 2010 - Canadian Business Network: Prison farms are closing, but the manure remains
September 18, 2010 - CNN: New life for horses ... with prisoners
September 2010 - Eastern Ontario AgriNews, Vol. 34, no. 9: Prison Farm protests won't stop despite arrests, herd sale
September 15, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Diversion possible
September 14, 2010 - Kingston 24 - Statement to the community
September 14, 2010 - CKWS: FARM COURT: It's become a continuing saga with a life of its own.
September 14, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard : Young protester not backing down
September 10, 2010 - 5 O'clock train CHUO 98.1 FM Ottawa: Arrested protesters interview with Denis Rancourt and Mireille Gervais, from August 12
September 5, 2010 - Globe & Mail: Ontario prison spares feral cat colony
August 30, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Dozens gather to discuss next move
From the Archive - News channel 7: VIDEO South Carolina Prison farms cut down on inmate food costs
August 28, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Confessions of a senior civil disobedient
August 24-26, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Letters to the Editor: Grits fail to make hay on prison farm issue, Government has no idea of farms value, Protesters weren't radicals
August 26, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: "The Save Our Prison Farm Campaign galvanized our community in the effort to preserve local food production and agricultural skills."
August 25, 2010 - CBC Radio One, As It Happens: Interview with Diane Dowling about the newly established Co-Op
August 24, 2010 - Globe & Mail: Prison farm supporters buy 25 cows
August 24, 2010 - Kingston Whig-Standard: Supporters pay $31,000 for cattle
August 9, 2010 - Macleans: Why Stephen Harper thinks he's smarter than the experts
August 19, 010 - The Epoch Times: Prison farms close as Get-Tough crime initiative moves ahead
August 19, 2010 - Frontenac EMC: Prison farm supporters vow to continue their campaign until the cows come home. And that's already starting to happen.
August 19, 2010 - Telegraph Journal: Close prison farms? Wrong move
August 19, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Campaign to save prison farms strikes a nerve in Kingston
August 18, 2010 - Canadian Business Magazine: Farms are closing, but the manure remains (Opinion)
August 17, 2010 - Pushed to the Left and Loving it: ANIMAL FARM II: Stormy and Hope. A Modern Love Story
August 17, 2010 - Deconstructing dinner: "the future of prison farms V: abducted cows"
August 17, 2010 - Toronto Star: Kingston protesters stand up for their city's prison farms
August 14, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Leader's mantle fit well
August 13, 2010 - The Star Phoenix: Prison farms teach life, and farming
August 12, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Farm supporters sound off, Calf is hope for the future
August 11, 2010 - Room for Rant: Kingston: Remember... 'til the cows come home
August 11, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Last protester let go, Not too late to save our farms (letter to the editor), make your feelings known at the ballot box (letter to the editor)
Auguse 11, 2010 - CKWS: The cows come home!! Welcome home Hope!
August 10, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: A sad day for Canada, Police release protesters
August 10, 2010 - The Kingstonist: Dear prison farm supporters (video)
August 10, 2010 - CKWS: Until the cows come home.
August 9, 2010 - Monday arrest coverage by: Globe & Mail, CKWS
August 9, 2010 - Sunday arrest coverage by: Globe & Mail, Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, CTV
August 9, 2010 - Ottawa Citizen: Protesters vow to continue prison farm blockade
August 9, 2010 - thetyee blog: Hundreds protest prison farm closure
August 8, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: The Blockade Begins
August 3, 2010 - rabble.ca, interview with Jon Steinman from Deconstructing Dinner: Conservatives shutting down prison farms
August 3, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard: Still no action on auction
August 3, 2010 - CKWS TV, news: Small victory - auction delayed until August 10
July 31, 2010 - rabble.ca, blog post: Save our prison farms
July 27, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, letter to the editor: Military officer supports prison farms
July 24, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story and video: CSC blockade report, plus auction firm refuses to bid on job
July 24, 2010 - Montreal Gazette, story: Hundreds block Ontario road to support prison farms
July 24, 2010 - Winnipeg Free Press, story: Protesters vow to block animals from leaving prison farm as auction looms
July 24, 2010 - CTV TV News, story: Kingston blockade set up to protest prison farm closures
July 23, 2010 - CKWS News, Kingston, video: CSC Blockade
July 23, 2010 - Globe and Mail, story: Donkey joins demonstration against prison farms closure
July 23, 2010 - CBC News, story: Group blockades to save prison farms
July 22, 2010 - EMC Kingston, story: Ottawa judge rejects bid to block prison farm closures
July 21, 2010 - rabble.ca: Civil disobedience considered by prison farm protesters
July 20, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, letter to the editor from Wayne Easter, M.P., Liberal agriculture critic: Closing prison farms is the wrong way to go
July 17, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story: Judge rejects group's plea
July 16, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story: Groups await judge's decision
July 14, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story: Prison farm supporters take case to judge
July 8, 2010 - Frontenac EMC, story: Local farmer goes to jail for prison farms at the G20 summit
July 6, 2010 - The Globe and Mail, Op-ed piece by Margaret Atwood linking the prison farm campaign and the G20 protests in the context of Canadian democracy: A second chance or a boot in the face
July 6, 2010 - CKWS TV News, Kingston, Ontario, story: Prince Edward County adds voice to campaign, meeting with Don Head this Friday
JUNE 2010
July, 2010 - Eastern Ontario Agrinews, story: Prison farm reprieve?
June 24, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story: Prison boss agrees to meet with Save Our Prison Farms
June 24, 2010 - Farm Focus of Atlantic Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Frontenac prison farm dairy herd unlikely to sell this week
June 23, 2010 - Saskatoon Star Pheonix, Saskatchewan, story: Prison farm livestock up for auction
June 23, 2010 - CBC News Saskatchewan, story: Sale of prison farm herd criticized
June 23, 2010 - CTV News Saskatchewan, story: Farm advocates criticize closure of penitentiary farm
June 23, 2010 - EMC Kingston, Ontario, story: Don't close prison farms City of Kingston council ask Correctional Service of Canada
June 22, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story: Surveillance will continue Save Our Prison Farms says
June 22, 2010 - Kingston This Week, Kingston, Ontario, story: Citizens form watch at prison farm
June 17, 2010 - Deconstructing Dinner, Kootenay Co-op Radio, Nelson, BC, podcast: Margaret Atwood Joins Prison Farm Campaign
June 17, 2010 - Farm Focus of Atlantic Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Hundreds determined to stop sale of cows from Frontenac prison farm
June 16, 2010 - Ottawa, Metro News, story: Advocates take to Hill to save prison farms
June 15, 2010 - CBC Online story: Prison farm protesters threaten blockade
June 15, 2010 - Toronto Sun (and Sun Media outlets across Canada), story: Prison farm advocates paddle message to Hill
June 15, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story: Prison guards - Frontenac Institution is Under Surveillance
June 14, 2010 - CKWS TV News, Kingston, Ontario, story: Prison Patrol - Citizens Watching Frontenac Prison Farm 24-hours a day
June 7, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story: Crowd preps for a fight - Sunday's rally and march with Margaret Atwood, details on plans for peaceful civil disobedience to save the dairy herds included
June 6, 2010 - Margaret Atwood's blog entry about her participation in Sunday's rally and march on CSC headquarters in Kingston. The post includes the text of her speach, and here's a link to a short clip from the end of her speech, the whole speech in video will be posted soon.
June 6, 2010 - CBC Radio, The Sunday Edition, listen to hour 1, 3:30-7:30, for Michael Enright's commentary
June 4, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, story: Conservative MP, Scott Reid cancels planned visit to Frontenac prison farm
June 4, 2010 - CBC Radio, As it Happens, listen to the beginning of hour 3, for the Interview with National Farmers Union 316 President Dianne Dowling
June 3, 2010 - CKWS TV News, Kingston, Ontario, video: Sunday June 6 with Margaret Atwood and Feds possibly offering one farm, but the campaign says this is not enough
June 3, 2010 - Frontenac News, Sharbot Lake, Ontario: Prison Farms - the protest that won't go away
June 3, 2010 - Kingston This Week, Kingston, Ontario, story: Margaret Atwood to Join Prison Farm March
June 1, 2010 - Telegraph-Journal, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, story: Prison farm closure draws critcism
June 1, 2010 - Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta, news story: Atwood joins lobby effort to save prison farms
MARCH TO MAY 2010
May, 2010 - AgriNews Interactive, Eastern Ontario, online letter to the editor: Save Our Prison Farms plans meetings in two Tory-held ridings
May 31, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, Kingston, story: Margaret Atwood to lead the way at prison farm protest
May 25, 2010 - Kathy Sage in straightgoods.ca: Tell Feds not to close prison herd
May 17, 2010 - Telegraph-Journal, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, story: New Brunswick's only prison farm still fully operational
May 12, 2010 - CKWS Television, Kingston, Ontario, video news report: Spin offs from prison farms - food bank, farm supply businesses
May 11, 2010 - CKWS Television, Kingston, Ontario, video news report: On recent campaign events in Athens and Napanee, Ontario
May 11, 2010 - Liberal Party of Canada, Press Release: Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff denounces the planned prison farm closures and calls for a public inquiry
May 6, 2010 - Kingston Whig Standard, Kingston, Ontario, story: Ex-inmate makes personal plea to keep farms
May 5, 2010 - The Globe and Mail, story: Critics claim closing prison farms would create $1-million milk bill
May 4, 2010 - Pictou County News, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, editorial: A step up - down on the farm
April 22, 2010 - Ottawa Citizen, story: Ideology behind move to close prison farms
JULY TO NOVEMBER 2009
http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/11/20/inmates-harvest-food-savings-education-and-jobs-from-jail-gardens/
**{There is a reference to the Canadian situation} Inmates harvest food, savings, education and jobs from jail gardens Nov 20 2009 Haley Walker
http://www.uumoc.ca/letter%20prison%20farm%20closure%20Lawrence%20Scanlan%20Globe%20and%20Mail.html
Cultivating convicts by Lawrence Scanlan Friday, December 4, 2009 (Globe and Mail) Lawrence Scanlan lives in Kingston. His book A Year of Living Generously: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Philanthropy was published Spring 2010.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/708635--a-bleak-harvest-for-canadian-inmates#article
A bleak harvest for Canadian inmates Ottawa to shutter agricultural program that has helped convicts tame the beast within by tending to beasts Published On Sun Oct 11 2009 NANCY J. WHITE/TORONTO STAR
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ottawa-will-expand-prisons-to-suit-tough-crime-laws/article1325821/ Ottawa will expand prisons to suit tough crime laws BILL CURRY OTTAWA — From Friday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 3:48PM EDT
http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Agriculture/2009-09-02/article-183241/Riverbend-inmate-says-prison-farm-system-not-just-about-gaining-employment-skills/1 Donald James McGregor Riverbend Institution inmate Prince Albert (As told to G.K. Summers) Riverbend inmate says prison farm system not just about gaining employment skills Published on September 2nd, 2009 Published on November 3rd, 2009 Staff ~ The Prince Albert Daily Herald Correctional Service Canada has deemed that closing the farm camps at minimum-security institutions will be beneficial, as inmates have no interest in farming upon release. This is not the case. There are many benefits that CSC officials in Ottawa do not acknowledge or recognize.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/10/14/sk-prison-farms910.html#socialcomments#ixzz0oOj9oxgy Prison farms should stay, inmates argue Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 5:20 PM CBC News Prison inmates in Saskatchewan are speaking out to save prison farms.
http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/GB/20100330/CP02/303309879/-1/SAG0802/protesters-placard-bearing-donkey-urge-feds-to-save-prison-farms&template=cpart Protesters, placard-bearing donkey urge feds to save prison farms Mar 30, 2010 05:00 pm | The Canadian Press
http://www.frontenacnews.ca/2009/09-39_oct_1/prison_farm_09-39.html Campaign to save prison farms - back in high gear by Julie Druker Cows not allowed at Fall Fair Kingston
http://www.frontenacthisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1777832
Save-the-farm group demonstrates outside prison farm Posted By Hollie Pratt Campbell Frontanac This Week Posted 7 months ago It may not be the “family” farm, but it’s a farm. And it feeds a lot of people.
Ideology behind move to close prison farms The Ottawa Citizen April 22, 2010 Rev. Brian Kopke Re: Tories to ignore appeal for study on prison farms, April 17.
http://psac.com/news/2009/releases/45-0909-e.shtml farm rehab progam Ottawa – More than 1,500 people marched in downtown Ottawa today to send a message to Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan: save the prison farm program.
http://www.providence.ca/stories/?id=305&prisonfarmnews.html Prison Farm Closures News Release wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 Looming prison farm closing demands immediate action CORCAN is sending its top brass to speed up the closure of the prison farms.
articles from Save Our Farms Web site
Corrections ignoring public Letter to the Editor, The Whig Standard, September 2009
Riverbend inmate says prison farm system not just about gaining employment skills
Letter to the Editor, Prince Albert Daily Herald, September 2009
Prison farm closures show how out of touch the Government is Nicole Huck, The Sasquatch, August 2009
EVENT: Save Our Farms Barbeque in support of the Prison Farms
Bleak future for prison harvest Nicole Huck, The Sasquatch, August 2009
Prison workers protest closure of farm program for inmates The Calgary Herald, July 23, 2009
Instructors rally to save farm at Riverbend Institution Tessa Holloway , Prince Albert Daily Herald, July 23, 2009
Get free farm fare in Sackville tomorrow Jesse Robichaud, Moncton Times-Transcript, July 9, 2009
‘Faintest glimmer of hope’ that prison farm won’t close Suzanne Atkinson, Eastern Ontario AgriNews, July 2009
Campaign mounting to keep local prison farm operating Katie Tower, Sackville Tribune Post, July 2, 2009
EVENT – 'Save our Farms' campaign to host barbecue in support of the Westmorland Institution
FEBRUARY TO JUNE 2009
Prison system must cut costs: report Kathleen Harris, Winnipeg Sun, June 16, 2009
Doing time the green way Straight Goods.ca, June 10, 2009
Time is running out on nation's prison farms Owen Roberts, Guelph Mercury, June 8, 2009
Prison unions protest farm closures Ian Elliot, Kingston Whig-Standard, June 3, 2009
Union fighting government's plan to close prison farm Lindsey Wiebe, Winnipeg Free Press, June 3, 2009
Campaign launched to save prison farm Jesse Robichaud, Moncton Times-Transcript, June 3, 2009
Prison abattoir avoids chopping block Rob Tripp, Kingston Whig-Standard, May 20, 2009
Bowden prison farm plants final harvest Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald, May 1, 2009
Canada to shut down all prison farms Kate Lunau, Macleans, April 10, 2009
Prison farms: Should they stay or should they go? Janet Creasy, Kingston This Week, April 2, 2009
Prison farms teach valuable skills Suzanne Atkinson, Eastern Ontario AgriNews, April 2009
Save the prison farms Tom Allen, CBC News, April 8, 2009
Closure of prison farms deemed a federal cash grab Rob Tripp, Sun Media, March 2009
CSC to close prison farms Stephen Petrick, Kingston This Week, March 20,2009
Prison farm closures irk union Rob Tripp, Kingston Whig-Standard, March 2009
Town to fight prison farm closure Katie Tower, Sackville Tribune-Post, March 18, 2009
N.B. prison farm to close doors Cole Hobson, Moncton Times-Transcript, March 7, 2009
Closing prison farms contrary to supporting local food markets Napanee Guide, March 5, 2009
Prison farm politics Jeff Green, Frontenac News, March 2009
Government of Canada to close Ontario prison farms, end rehabilitation program Ryan Slifka, New Resilient, March 2, 2009
Conserving Wetlands at Frontenac's Correctional Institution Heather Jackson, Ducks Unlimited Canada
The original Kingston Whig Standard report on the announced closure in late-February
CKWS news podcast on the June 3 National Campaign Position Statement launch
New Brunswick Times and Transcript June 3 story on the Union of Solicitor Generals Employees website launch and Westmorland Institution
CKWS TV news podcast on April 30 Day of Action
Frontenac News coverage of the April 30 Day of Action in Ottawa
CBC report national online story - Tom Allen, Wed, April 8, 2009
Maclean's Magazine article, "Canada to shut down all prison farms", April 10, 2009
New Brunswick Times and Transcript article, "N.B. Prison Farm to Close Doors: Lack of job prospects in agricultural field leads to closure of Westmorland Institution Farm", March 7, 2009
Kingston City Council minutes - page 234 or page 27/38 has a motion in support of keeping the prison farms open passed by Council on March 24, 2009. The Cataraqui Regional Conservation Authority recently passed a stronger motion calling for the farms to remain open.
Frontenac News report on the March 19 public meeting at St. Lawrence College
Eastern Ontario Agrinews article "Prison Farms Teach Valuable Skills", Suzanne Atkinson, April 2009
Napanee Guide article, Closing prison farms contrary to supporting local food markets, March 5, 2009 Kingston This Week opinion piece from farmer Janet Creasly, "Prison Farms: Should they stay or should they go?"
Frontenac News report on April 30 Day of Action, May 7, 2009
Barry's Bay This Week, letter to the editor a copy of Renfrew farmers letter to parliamentarians giving reasons for the farms to stay open.
Several articles on the issue have appeared in print only editions of Ontario Farmer
The town of Sackville is opposing the closure of the prison farms.
University of Toronto Take 5 fm radio did an interview on the prison farm issue.
The NFU and the cattlemens association achieve a significant step towards saving the prison farms when CSC agreed to allow the abattoir at the Pittsburgh Institution to operate indefinitely with 5 months notice possibe changes in status.
Independend internet news, rabble.ca, featured the issue in the In Cahouts section of the site
New Brunswick Times and Transcript June 3 story on the Union of Solicitor Generals Employees website launch and Westmorland Institution
CKWS TV news podcast on April 30 Day of Action
Frontenac News coverage of the April 30 Day of Action in Ottawa
CBC report national online story - Tom Allen, Wed, April 8, 2009
Maclean's Magazine article, "Canada to shut down all prison farms", April 10, 2009
New Brunswick Times and Transcript article, "N.B. Prison Farm to Close Doors: Lack of job prospects in agricultural field leads to closure of Westmorland Institution Farm", March 7, 2009
Kingston City Council minutes - page 234 or page 27/38 has a motion in support of keeping the prison farms open passed by Council on March 24, 2009. The Cataraqui Regional Conservation Authority recently passed a stronger motion calling for the farms to remain open.
Frontenac News report on the March 19 public meeting at St. Lawrence College
Eastern Ontario Agrinews article "Prison Farms Teach Valuable Skills", Suzanne Atkinson, April 2009
Napanee Guide article, Closing prison farms contrary to supporting local food markets, March 5, 2009