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Canada misses out on nearly $50 billion in tax each year
“Offshore is really big dollars from a smaller number of entities, but the majority of the tax gap is actually small amounts from a large number of people” … Aggressive tax avoidance — techniques that comply with the letter of a law, but contravene its spirit — as well as simple mistakes on tax filings and nonpayment of taxes round out the causes of lost tax revenues in the tax gap, according to the report.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, globalization, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Beyond harm reduction
… regulation must be embraced as the next step in harm reduction. “That is the stated objective behind cannabis regulation: They’re doing this to protect youth, they’re doing this to protect public safety,” Mr. MacPherson said. “The same argument applies to all other drugs, as difficult as that is to put forward. We need to get beyond the point where we’re afraid of that, because what we have now is absolutely not working.”
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health
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How the Toronto police have kept unfounded rates low
The problem with decisions being guided by instinct is that instinct can be influenced by subconscious beliefs that have been affected by long-held societal opinions about sexual assault. Instead, when it comes to sexual-assault investigations, officers must have tangible evidence or an admission from the victim before marking a case as unfounded.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, women
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Sexual violence: The silent health epidemic
Being a girl or woman is a risk factor for abuse and assault… But being marginalized greatly increases that risk… Gender-based violence tends to flourish out of a culture that devalues women, where so-called “locker-room talk” that demeans women is casually accepted, where media messages objectify women, where women are held to a different sexual standard (slut-shaming) and where sexual harassment is dismissed as no big deal.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, women, youth
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We must do better for sexual assault survivors. The answer isn’t rocket science
Really addressing sexual violence means education on the meaning of consent. And that’s where it starts to become complicated: Sure it’s serious training for all the actors in the criminal justice system: police officers, prosecutors, and judges. But it also means transformational sex education. It means changing society’s understanding of the meaning of consent, sex and sexuality.
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Why are police calling so many sexual-assault complaints ‘unfounded’?
… police classify an average of 5,500 sexual-assault complaints as unfounded every year. That means these cases are not included in statistics about sexual assault… Experts blame inconsistent police training for the discrepancies… Unfairly dismissing their complaints as unfounded only adds to the sense that the system is weighted against sexual-assault victims from the start.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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We are failing the community of sexual assault victims
… the independence, detachment and consistency that are core virtues of the justice system are at the same time the root causes of one of the justice system’s most profound failures: its dramatic inability to deliver justice to survivors of sexual violence. We in the justice system value precedent, which means we tend to stick to the same old ways for far too long… we decline to listen deeply to constituent groups like sexual assault survivors because we convince ourselves they are ill-informed laypersons with suspicious agendas.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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Canada must not become a tax haven
Canada still lags behind other countries when it comes to stemming the flow of hidden money… last June [Britain] required corporate registrations to include the names of real company owners… rather than just front men or women. The records are listed in an online database that can be viewed by anyone, bringing much more transparency to the system… it’s high time for Canada to follow suit and make “snow washing” a lot more difficult.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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An Urgent Call on Overdose Crisis: Prescribe Drugs, End Prohibition Second in a series.
“Prohibition does not deliver on its intended goals, but it does result in the marginalization of whole groups of people and in some cases their deaths. It is time to consider an approach that helps to contain the negative effects of drug use, provides a variety of treatment modalities and harm reduction services and avoids criminalizing those who use drugs.”
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Needle exchanges in federal prisons can save money and lives
It is simply unfeasible for CSC to lock down a prison to such a degree that no drugs will ever get inside… The problem is that inmates using injectable drugs share the limited number of contraband needles and syringes available to them. People in federal prisons are consequently far more likely to acquire AIDS/HIV or hepatitis C than the general population. They arrive in prison healthy and leave with chronic diseases that cost society millions of dollars to treat. Sometimes, they die.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Health, ideology, rights, standard of living
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