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Injection sites should be supported
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
Apr 14 2012
Those in the policing community who oppose these sites should reconsider the horrific consequences of their opposition to a proven, cost-effective, evidence-based program that reduces the harmful side effects of drug use, and in the process enhances the safety of police officers and other emergency workers… It is about time we start treating drug use and drug addiction for what it is, namely a public health problem.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Toronto and Ottawa would benefit from supervised drug injection sites
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Apr 11 2012
giving addicts a safer place to use drugs can help curb the health risks, public nuisance and other problems associated with addiction. That’s the upshot of a comprehensive four-year study into the merits of setting up publicly funded “consumption facilities” — a.k.a. supervised injection sites — for illegal drugs in Toronto and Ottawa. It’s an idea whose time has come.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health
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On supervised-injection clinics, Ontario Liberals discover a convenient ‘division’
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Apr 12, 2012
In her response to the release of a report that called for supervised drug-injection sites in Toronto and Ottawa on Wednesday, provincial Health Minister Deb Matthews said the McGuinty government was happy to receive good advice and that “we make our decisions based on evidence.” The next sentence: “Experts continue to be divided on the value of the sites.”… a spokeswoman for Ms. Matthews offered this explanation: “As the Minister said in her statement, experts continue to be divided on the value of the sites — these experts include police, medical experts and other community leaders.”
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Superior Court stops destruction of Quebec’s long-gun registry data
Friday, April 6th, 2012
Apr. 05, 2012
Superior Court Judge Jean-François de Grandpré sided with the Quebec government and ordered Ottawa to not only temporarily safeguard the data but to allow the province the right to access the information contained in the registry. The ruling also requires that all new non-restricted firearms such as rifles and shotguns continue to be registered in the province. The order issued on Thursday took effect immediately, just hours before the bill abolishing the gun registry was given royal assent. The interim ruling will be enforced for a week, until further motions for an injunction can be argued next week.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, women
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Protecting seniors from elder abuse takes more than justice legislation
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Mar 18 2012
… the Conservatives introduced legislation they say would lead to tougher sentences for those convicted of elder abuse. “Elder abuse is a serious issue and we must do whatever we can to fight it,” says Justice Minister Rob Nicholson… He’s right about the need to protect vulnerable seniors. But it will take more than a tweaking of the Criminal Code to do it. Here’s an idea: let’s protect seniors by making them less physically and financially vulnerable, thereby preventing much of the abuse from ever occurring.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, rights
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Ontario goes it alone on immigration, says Ottawa’s policy hurts province
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Mar. 02, 2012
… although Ontario remains by far the largest recipient of new immigrants in Canada, it has suffered as a result of changes to immigration policy. The rapid growth of provincial nominee programs has drawn immigrants away from Ontario to the West and Atlantic Canada… In 2009, Ontario’s share of immigrant landings sank to its lowest level in nearly 30 years. Part of that may be related to its economic decline. But the province is laying part of the blame at the feet of the federal bureaucracy, which the Ontario government claims has tens of thousands of Ontario-bound applicants in its backlogs.
Tags: economy, immigration
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Innovative ideas for protecting dementia patients
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Jan 23, 2012
… the Halifax Regional Police force… is launching a trial program to affix GPS tracking bracelets — which look similar to digital wrist watches — to dementia patients at risk of wandering off. Such a program, once implemented, will allow the police to rapidly locate, and one hopes rescue, any dementia patient who is able to slip off unattended. The technology has the potential, not only to save resources required by a traditional search operation, but also to save lives.
Tags: disabilities, mental Health, standard of living
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A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Jan. 7, 2012
… a “policy statement” from the premier association of pediatricians… has revolutionary implications for medicine and for how we can more effectively chip away at poverty and crime. Toxic stress might arise from parental abuse of alcohol or drugs. It could occur in a home where children are threatened and beaten. It might derive from chronic neglect — a child cries without being cuddled. Affection seems to defuse toxic stress… suggesting that the stress emerges when a child senses persistent threats but no protector… The upshot is that children are sometimes permanently undermined.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Women see the other side
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Dec 27 2011
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program allows those in prison who never dreamed of going beyond high school to achieve that seeming impossibility. It is rehabilitative, character-changing and confidence-building. It has been shown to reduce crime and violence. It also engages regular college students in a world they may only have encountered through TV or film and deepens their understanding of social problems. It pushes them to work for changes in their communities to reduce crime and recidivism. Inside-Out is a program that should be emulated in prisons across the country.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, poverty, women
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Harper government misguided in its tough-on-crime approach
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Dec. 12, 2011
Canada is heading to that awful place that the United States has just inhabited for 20 years – a place of longer and longer prison sentences, of a futile “war on drugs,” of mandatory minimum sentences for nearly everything (including six months for growing as few as five marijuana plants) that remove judges’ discretion. The financial and social costs in the U.S. were incalculable, and just as the U.S. is coming to its senses, Canada is losing its own.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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