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G20 verdict is a clear signal to Toronto police
The agonizingly slow quest for justice for the 1,100 protesters arrested, beaten and detained by police three years ago during the G20 summit in Toronto has finally produced a breakthrough… This week’s conviction would not have happened if the Star hadn’t dug up the evidence the police refused to provide; if a member of the public had not stepped forward with a video of the incident; if a tenacious team of lawyers had not pushed Nobody’s case through a thicket of procedural roadblocks; and if Torontonians had not sought accountability for the debacle on their streets.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ontario allowed decades of child abuse
He intends to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the Ontario government knew about the physical, sexual and emotional abuse of these vulnerable youngsters and did nothing to stop it. “Even convicted murderers got better treatment”… “They underfunded this institution because they could. They knew the people held there couldn’t fight back.”
Tags: disabilities, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Scales of justice tipped against disabled kids
… the Administrative Justice Support Network, an online guide to the appeal process… provides clear definitions of legal terms. It outlines what individuals with disabilities and their caregivers can expect, what they need to know and what they need to do to improve their odds of success… on the eight most commonly used tribunals: the Health Services Appeal and Review Board, the Social Benefits Tribunal, the Landlord and Tenant Board, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Special Education Appeal Board, the Child and Family Services Review Board, the Consent and Capacity Board and the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Fraser Institute is wrong, there’s no such thing as cheap kids
According to the author – who previously wrote a report that said poverty is not really a problem in this country – parents here only need to spend around $3,000 to $4,500 a year to raise a child… Most studies and estimates place the annual cost of raising children at between $10,000 and $15,000 a year… Are there ways to economize to get your annual child care costs down to the conservative think tank’s target of about four grand a year?
Tags: child care, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Feds put up money to help crime victims
The funds will be used to keep two victim advocates working alongside domestic violence investigators in order to better connect victims with counselling, case management and support. The money will also help provide transportation and child-care services, and pay for a consultant to evaluate the effectiveness of the project… Statistics Canada’s latest figures show almost 95,000 people nationwide were victimized by domestic assault in 2011.
Tags: budget, corrections, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, poverty
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Mr. Harper’s drug stance falls behind
If the Harper government needs more evidence it is heading in the wrong direction on marijuana laws, it was provided Monday by the U.S. attorney general, who conceded America’s drug laws have been a failure and have wrongly punished and injured millions of young people… The Conservatives are on the wrong course and the wrong side of history…
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, youth
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A better country (with fewer lawyers)
If litigation rates are four times smaller in Canada than the United States, this should not occasion surprise: Subsidize something and you get more of it; penalize it and you get less of it… As for punitive damages, Canadian awards are many times smaller than American ones… Relative to similar countries, America has both more litigation and heavier regulation… It is in part because Canadians have rejected the idiosyncratic and wasteful legal doctrines of its neighbour that Canada, in little-noticed ways, has become the fortunate country which it is.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Legal aid clinics fight to save their budgets
“We were completely blindsided”… clients don’t speak English, don’t understand the basics of Canadian law and come to her with tangled cases of eviction, language woes and immigration difficulties… hard-to-serve clients — those with the most complicated problems and biggest hurdles to scale — will be turned away. Clinics will grab the low-hanging fruit to survive… It is not that policy-makers cut without caring — they cut without understanding the consequences of what they do.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Let’s speak less of death and more about care
Instead of providing care we have created vast layers of bureaucracy to “manage” the limits of the care we have… So let’s put off “death talk” and think about “care talk,” about what the fragile of our society need and how better to provide it… That’s a discussion worth joining in an area where we need to do much, much better.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, rights, standard of living
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What might it be like when pot is legal?
With 16 states having decriminalized or legalized cannabis for non-medical use and eight more heading toward some kind of legalization, federal prohibition’s days seem numbered. You might wonder what America will look like when marijuana is in the corner store and at the farmers market… Maybe fiscal conservatives know about the $35 billion in annual nationwide tax savings ending prohibition would bring.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, tax
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