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Tories’ tough-on-crime agenda means jammed jails stuffed with minority Canadians
Since the Conservatives came to power in 2006, the overall prison population has grown by 7%, to its highest level ever… the entire increase can be accounted for by rising numbers of Aboriginal, black, Asian and other visible minorities. “You cannot reasonably claim to have a just society with incarceration rates like these”… “incarcerating people has little to do with helping victims”.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism
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Solving Canada’s adoption crisis
30,000 Canadian children in foster or institutional care… If they “age out” of care at age 16 or 17, without becoming part of a family, the odds rise dramatically that they will fall prey to many social ills. Criminal activity, homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, teen pregnancy — all become more likely. Ironically, this is likely to lead to another generation of children living out their lives in foster or institutional care, as their parents won’t be able to provide for them.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Prison life steeped in myths
In fact, two-thirds of provincial prisoners have not been convicted of anything. They are in pre-trail detention (known as “remand”) costing taxpayers roughly $400 a day for an adult, $550 a day for a youth… This underlines the link between poverty and incarceration. Growing up in a low-income family increases a child’s risk of ending up in foster care, dropping out of school, drifting onto the streets, getting hooked on drugs and being arrested. The vast majority of prisoners are from poor households torn apart by domestic violence.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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The downside of the condo boom
There is no evidence that the increase in rental condos had moderated conditions in the overall rental housing market. Condos have not contributed to Toronto’s affordable housing stock, nor have they helped us stem the tide of increased income segregation… All evidence suggests that need for affordable housing in Toronto has only increased throughout the boom years.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Ontario must address violence in long-term care homes
… [the] study found aggression in 11 per cent of Ontario’s 78,000 nursing home residents… Front-line staff need far more behavioural training than provided in their eight-month certification programs. As well, the province must invest in separate facilities for aggressive residents, especially the mentally ill who would once have been housed in psychiatric facilities instead of living among fragile men and women. Solutions may be costly, but they are necessary.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Is federal child care benefit good use of tax dollars?
Ottawa can’t say if the money has eased the severe shortage of child care in Canada where more than three-quarters of mothers with young families work and where there are licensed spots for only 21 per cent of kids under age 12… It doesn’t know if the money has made child care more affordable… Ottawa should be accounting for the money it is already spending before promising more.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, women
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Women struggle in information vacuum
“The difficulty of collecting data about violence against women has been a barrier… However, the data that do exist tell us three things very clearly: this problem is big, it comes at a high cost, and we are making little or no progress in putting a stop to it.”… This problem is going to worsen as Statistics Canada keeps phasing out surveys
Tags: crime prevention, rights, women
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Ontario’s troubled youth deserve better care at Brampton superjail
… the Ontario government must take immediate action to transform an unpredictable and punitive jailhouse culture, especially when it enables certain staff to treat young people like hardened adult criminals. While some teens… have been toughened by years in street gangs, that doesn’t mean they can’t be reached… troubling is the shocking lack of programs for anger management, life counseling and substance abuse… to help inmates become functioning members of society.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, youth
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Premiers urged to make daycare a priority at annual conference
… the Canadian Child Care Federation and the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada are calling on the premiers to work together on a “pan-Canadian” plan. The premiers should also push Ottawa to play its “appropriate financial and policy roles” to ensure children and families have access to this essential social support…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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One modest proposal for speedier justice
while we strive to improve access to justice, the courts are limited by significant constraints, such as personnel, funding and, specifically, a lack of judicial officers to hear cases. These limits create institutional delay… despite the jurisdiction granted to them, justices of the peace have not been allowed to exercise their authority widely. Expanding their role would increase the number of judicial officers available to preside over matters in the Ontario Court of Justice, both family and criminal.
Tags: budget, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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