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We need more prisons for statistical crimes
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
August 4, 2010
… we can’t necessarily take those crime statistics at face value is because crime reporting is voluntary, which leads to an array of challenges that can skew the numbers. With the reporting pool self-selecting, some groups may be more likely to report criminal events: the middle-class, for example, or the the family of a murder victim. And those who live in high-crime neighbourhoods, or who are the victim of a minor crime such as j-walking, might not bother to report… That’s why they’re really building all those prisons.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Harper’s austerity is for other people
Monday, March 8th, 2010
March 08, 2010
Austerity was the message they wanted to send… it’s all pretty much a sham, with no real plan for deficit reduction to back their rosy projections… Just bringing polling spending back to the level it was at when Harper came into office would save $5 million. They’re spending 156 per cent more on management consultants than the Liberals did, costing a whopping $355 million. And then there’s the incessant, taxpayer funding advertising flooding the airwaves… government advertising, as well as travel and communications contracts, has increased by 31.9 per cent under the Conservatives, costing a staggering $820 million. On Economic Action Plan ads alone, the Conservatives dropped $100 million.
Tags: economy
Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »
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