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Tackling inequality begins with cracking down on tax havens
… the debate is not about whether extreme inequality is a problem but rather about how to solve it… one concrete proposal, endorsed by the authors of the Oxfam report, is likely politically saleable and has the potential to provide some the resources needed to tackle inequality: a global crack-down on tax havens and tax cheats… The costs to Canada of tax avoidance and evasion are estimated to be in the many tens of billions of dollars every year.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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Suddenly, safe-injection sites are mainstream politics
… politicians could at least admit intractable problems are intractable and support half-measures. If hundreds of people are dying easily preventable deaths and your political orthodoxy prevents you from supporting a demonstrably effective remedial measure, maybe there’s something wrong with your political orthodoxy. Maybe, pretty soon, you’re going to look lost, silly and backward.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Women killed by their spouses are not casualties in someone else’s story
“Humanizing the (usually) male predators and murderers of women while the achievements and life stories of their victims are ignored only contributes to the epidemic of violence against women.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, women
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Missing: a child and youth mental health strategy at provincial and national levels
Increasing mental health knowledge and skills of people working with children across sectors like education, social services and justice would mitigate the untoward effects of mental illness. Canada currently spends too little on mental health compared to other developed countries. The Mental Health Commission of Canada recommends that nine percent of health budgets should go to improving mental health services.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, disabilities, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, youth
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Abolish solitary confinement for Ontario’s children and youth
“… whatever the name, solitary confinement should be banned by States as a punishment or extortion technique,” UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez told the UN General Assembly in 2011… It doesn’t matter if you call it solitary confinement, administrative segregation, secure de-escalation, or anything else. Let’s just call it something we used to do, that we don’t do anymore.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, rights
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Keeping the mentally ill out of solitary, and out of prison
… medical facilities and professionals have been in such short supply in both federal and provincial prisons that those with mental health issues are often held in solitary because prison staff don’t know what else to do with them… it’s welcome news that the province plans to hire 239 more staff for its 26 prisons to care for mentally ill prisoners, as well as taking steps to keep them out of prison, never mind solitary, in the first place.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, mental Health, rights
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Ontario introduces ‘historic’ changes to child-protection laws
The proposed new Child, Youth and Family Services Act, tabled in the legislature Thursday, would replace existing legislation with a modern, child-centred act, that will strengthen the rights of children and youth… It will affirm the rights of children through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, recognize the importance of diversity and inclusion and the need to continue to address systemic racism… “For too long, the system has focused on problems facing children and youth and not enough on their voice, their opinions, their thoughts and their goals”
Tags: child care, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living, youth
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Health Ministry urged to crack down on ‘problematic’ doctor billing
Nine Ontario specialists claimed that they worked more than 360 days last year, according to the provincial auditor’s annual report… The auditor found 648 specialists whose 2015/16 billing trends were anomalous when compared to the expected range of days billed and services provided by specialty category… The province has had no inspector function since 2005 when it disbanded the Medical Review Committee.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Once again, our prison system fails. And this time it’s the victims of crime who suffer
When a prison fails to keep peace, order and good government inside, and fails to rehabilitate offenders, it hurts both inmates and society. And when criminals are ordered released early, not for good behaviour but as a form of compensation for the state’s bad behaviour, the justice system fails crime’s victims.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, rights, standard of living
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