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Tax-cheat crackdown nets $1-billion more than expected, CRA data show
The 2013 budget estimated and booked $550-million a year by 2014-15 in additional revenue from added enforcement. The CRA now says the final net impact of the measures was $1.57-billion for that year… the 2013 changes required the disclosure of the name of the institution holding the foreign funds, the specific country where the property is, and the specific amount of foreign income that was generated.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, standard of living, tax
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Time to tear down last of the Tory crime agenda
Jail does not make people better citizens. Instead, at a cost of almost $120,000 per year, offenders are packed into a brutalizing prison system that crushes the spirit and holds out precious little hope for rehabilitation. Impressionable young offenders who comprise the largest segment of the prison population come into contact with career criminals who can warp their perspective on life… having a prison record makes an ex-offender virtually unemployable after release.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Fixing health care in prisons will save us all money
About 75 per cent of prisoners spend fewer than three consecutive months in custody. But that brief period should be seen as a rare chance to connect with members of hard-to-reach populations and bring them into the health system… Instead, conditions in correctional facilities tend to exacerbate already poor health… The numbers of inmates and prisoners with substance-abuse problems, mental-health issues and a history of sexual abuse are astronomical.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Supreme Court strikes down Tories’ tough-on-crime laws
In two separate rulings that stress the importance of judges’ discretion, the court struck at the heart of prime minister Stephen Harper’s crime agenda… The effect of the rulings will be large. The Truth in Sentencing ruling will mean thousands of people each year will serve less time in jail… “The government supports the use of mandatory minimum penalties for the most serious crimes, and crucially, only where they are consistent with the Charter.”
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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CAS needs more funds, not regulation
Requiring CAS workers to register with a professional college simply allows government and agencies to pass the buck for failures in child protection services. By shifting the responsibility to individual workers, they ignore the systemic issues that are hurting children and families and put off real reforms to a vital public service that is starved for funding, resources and leadership.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Tax avoidance isn’t just bad apples – systemic poaching requires systemic fixes
In addition to facilitating tax evasion by individuals, many states vie to attract corporate capital. They do so in two ways: Offering low or zero taxes on the profits generated elsewhere, or luring the economic activity in question to their jurisdiction… attracting individual portfolio capital and corporate paper profits have one thing in common. As the OECD puts it, they “poach” capital from the tax base of the state that has a right to tax this capital
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Upgrading children’s aid workers’ skills makes sense
… under the planned system new recruits will have to pass eight standardized courses and a final exam during a four-month training period before they are authorized to fully perform child protection duties. Right now workers are authorized to perform all duties as soon as they are hired. As well, the association is in talks with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, which regulates more than 17,400 people involved in social work, to bring Ontario’s 5,160 child protection workers under its umbrella.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Children’s aid societies launch major training reforms
Children’s aid societies in Ontario have launched a major reform of training for child protection workers, setting province-wide standards designed to eventually have workers regulated by a professional college… But the union representing child protection workers is firmly opposed to oversight from a professional college, and the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, which regulates and funds child protection, is so far staying out of the fight.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, standard of living, youth
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Time to drop the distinct crime of sexual assault
… it is time to abandon the separate heading of sexual assault. The morally repugnant act is assault, not sex. It is intolerable for one human being to use physical force against another for any purpose. All separate headings for assault cheapen this fact. While a sexual component seriously aggravates an assault, that’s a matter for higher sentencing, not a prerequisite for a finding of guilt. The criminal courts of 30 years ago may well have needed a title for a particular genre of assault to make them understand it as an assault, but 30 years ago there were precious few female judges or Crowns.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, mental Health, rights, women
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Ottawa to step up efforts on tax cheats in bid to collect $2.6 billion in back taxes
… the new Liberal government said it will provide $444.4 million to the Canada Revenue Agency over the next five years so it can crack down on tax evasion and combat tax avoidance. The government says it expects these efforts to result in the collection of $2.6 billion in back taxes over the next five years. The crackdown will extend to what the federal government describes as “aggressive tax planning.”
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, ideology, tax
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