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Ottawa must act quickly on opioid crisis
Two people die from an opioid overdose every day in Ontario… One of every eight deaths in Ontario among young adults is related to an opioid overdose… Currently, our approach in Canada is for individual jurisdictions to tackle the problem themselves… in the absence of national data on opioid prescribing and overdoses, we have no way to capture the scope of this national crisis, and to identify policy changes most likely to effect real change.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living, youth
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What Tax Avoidance Costs Us (For One, Pharmacare)
… here’s my list of the questions we need to be asking Canadians: Do you believe that Canadian corporations should pay the stated corporate tax rate — the second-lowest in the G7 — and be prevented from using tax havens to avoid paying their share? / Would you support clamping down on the use of tax havens and other loopholes, and using the billions gained as a result for public programs like pharmacare?
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, pharmaceutical, standard of living, tax
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Report shines light on poverty’s role on kids in CAS system
A new report that for the first time calculates the effect of poverty in Ontario child protection has found it plays a significant role in kids being taken from their families and placed into care. Children whose families ran out of money for housing were twice as likely to be placed with foster parents or group homes, according to an analysis of Ontario children taken into care in 2013. Similar rates were found for families who ran out of money for food or for utilities.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Chronic delays undermine public faith in justice system, Senate report warns
The delays plaguing the justice system have become a crisis that could result in the release of thousands of criminals, say the senators behind a new report that explores how long it takes for cases to wind their way through the courts… The Charter of Rights and Freedoms says someone charged with an offence has the right to have their case tried within a reasonable amount of time. In a 5-4 decision, the high court defined that period as 18 months for provincial courts and 30 months for superior courts.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, rights, standard of living
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Ontario’s labour ministry must ensure employees are paid what they are owed
The ministry must stop depending on complaints from employees to enforce the act. Instead it should conduct more surprise inspections, which are more successful both at catching law-breaking employers and collecting unpaid wages… But still it sticks with its complaints driven process to enforce the act though it knows that even when individual employees file successful claims against employers about two-thirds of the companies still do not comply.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Wage-theft victims lost $28M to poor enforcement, statistics show
Victims of wage theft across Ontario have lost out on $28 million over the past six years because the Ministry of Labour failed to collect the pay owed to them by law-breaking bosses, new statistics show. Just $19 million of the $47.5 million stolen from out-of-pocket workers since 2009 has ever been recovered… (Employment Standards Act) enforcement is still largely complaint driven but that many employees face barriers, like fear of retaliation, that inhibit them from making complaints
Tags: crime prevention, economy, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Policing and mental illness: Many questions, no easy answers
… there are somewhere in the vicinity of a million interactions between police and people with mental illnesses each year in Canada and the vast majority end well. Research even tells us that most people with mental illnesses have a fairly favourable opinion of the police… Change will require the right people with the right knowledge and skills in the right organizations in a forward-thinking community with the right supports for people who face mental health challenges.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, mental Health, standard of living
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Judge’s decision on consent and rape sends a strong message
Justice Zuker said things that have long needed to be said… He found that Gray’s prior sexual relationship was not an invitation to have sex without consent anymore than a married woman’s sexual relationship with her husband is… Nor did he find that passivity implies consent, citing studies of how victims often don’t resist, though they are not giving consent… Nor can consent be given in advance,
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
Posted in Child & Family Policy Context | 1 Comment »
Self-regulation is no regulation
… Doctors who sexually assault their own patients not only entirely, unbelievably, escape criminal charges, which would normally apply for any other citizen committing such crimes should a sex assault or rape occur anywhere except in a private office. And they are actually allowed to continue on as usual in their medical professions with a very few and limited restrictions. Seriously? They get to keep working? In the same field? With no police involvement?
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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For transgender people, better health care begins with basic human rights
The lack of legal and human-rights protections often drives transgender people to the fringes of society, for example to sex work. As a result, they have rates of HIV-AIDS that are 49 times those of the general population, as well as high rates of smoking, alcohol abuse, drug abuse and the most damaging health conditions of all, homelessness and poverty. According to the authors of the Lancet articles, the solution begins with legal recognition and rights.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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