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Think gender comes down to X and Y chromosomes? Think again
… while humans insist that you’re either male or female – that you have either XY or XX sex chromosomes – biology begs to differ… genetic men with Klinefelter syndrome possess an extra X chromosome… Genetic women with Turner syndrome have only one X chromosome… Even if you get the “right” combination of sex chromosomes, it’s no guarantee that you’ll fit into the carefully circumscribed human definitions of male and female.
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Why do some vulnerable children become radicalized, while most others do not?
… when youth have other ways of accessing the benefits that they get through political violence, they will choose the more adaptive strategies… If we are going to prevent criminal radicalization, we cannot rely solely on better policing, increased surveillance, and more restrictive laws. We will do better when we turn to community activists, youth workers, leaders in our communities, and, most importantly, youth themselves for direction on where to focus our prevention efforts.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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Index ranks Canada as sixth most socially advanced country
Canada sits in 6th place of 133 countries – the highest of any G7 nation – in an annual “social progress index”… The index… is meant to complement the traditional measure of gross domestic product in assessing progress. It tracks 52 indicators – from crime levels to literacy rates and gender equality – that reflect whether a country is providing essential needs to its citizens and opportunities for people to improve their lot in society.
Tags: child care, corrections, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Want bigger families? Let women work
It turns out that [female work-force participation rates], if backed by robust sex equality and work-life balance policies, actually reinforce rather than contradict one another… Canada(s)… fertility has been stuck at a middling 1.7 children per family for a long time… Canada has not followed its Commonwealth neighbours in introducing national child-care strategies and other such programs designed to increase the participation of women in the work force.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, women
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Harper’s dangerous advice on guns for rural security
In Canada, home invasions and violent assaults by strangers in rural areas are so rare that they are virtually unrecorded and unreported threats. And random gun violence is only slightly more likely in urban areas. A quick glance at our recent police data confirms 505 homicides last year for our whole country of 35 million. The weapon most used in homicides across Canada is a knife — easily available in our kitchens. In fact, 40 per cent of murder victims were killed with knives, 29 per cent by beating or strangulation and 26 per cent with a gun… 85 were gang-related shootings
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, standard of living
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Canada needs more crime prevention, not vengeance
The pending legislation is simply the latest in a string of moves to turn the justice system into a machine for pure vengeance. While perhaps cathartic, vengeance is a misspent emotion — burning the cash that should be invested in what actually prevents violence and keeps front-line cops and communities safe… Putting our money into the front end of criminal justice equivalent to 10 per cent of what we are spending on pure vengeance, we would achieve a 50 per cent reduction in violence over the next five to 10 years and so would likely save hundreds of lives and billions of tax dollars each year.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living
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No need for Tories’ ‘Throw Away the Key Act’
The suggestion is that Canada’s streets are menaced by a wave of elderly jailbirds, released on parole after a scant 25 years in the slammer. This is — does it even need saying? — nonsense. Not every prisoner is paroled after 25 years: only those judged at low risk of re-offending. Those designated as “dangerous offenders” can already be kept locked up for life.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living
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Canada failing on palliative care
We are about to become a country that extends patients the right to a hastened death, but offers no legislative guarantees or assurances that they will be well looked after until they die. As Canada deliberates its response to the court’s decision, federal and provincial governments will need to make substantive investments in hospice and palliative care in order to offer patients and families choices that are equitable, compassionate and real.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, pensions, standard of living
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A fact-based approach to addressing campus assault
… there is no evidence that sexual assaults are on the rise in Canada. In 2013, the rate of the most serious (Level 2 and 3) police-reported sexual assaults was at its lowest point for any year save one since 1998, when it was nearly 50% higher. It is no doubt true that the vast majority of sexual assaults aren’t reported to police, but there is no evidence to suggest that the number of unreported assaults is growing.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
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Ontario review of psychiatric wait times in jail kept secret
Ontario has completed a review of wait times for inmates seeking psychiatric treatment in provincial jails, but the corrections ministry is keeping the results secret. The ministry committed to the review as part of a landmark settlement reached in September 2013 with Christina Jahn, an Ottawa prisoner with a mental illness and terminal cancer who was kept in solitary confinement for more than 200 days.
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