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Encryption is crucial to our privacy and freedom
… encryption… enables our very freedom in a digital world. Encryption is a vital tool for enabling journalists to operate in countries without freedom of the press; allowing dissidents to co-ordinate against oppressive regimes; and in democracies, encryption empowers ordinary citizens to counteract intrusive government surveillance programs… Encryption may protect the content of a message, but it doesn’t hide where it is being sent.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights
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Liberal government to announce plans for inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women
Trudeau stressed his commitment to improving the lives of aboriginals. “For Indigenous Peoples, life in Canada has not been — and is not today — easy, equitable, or fair.” On his pledge to establish a national inquiry into missing women, he said it would be “responsible and responsive (and) informed by all the broad stakeholders that are concerned about this… We need such an inquiry to provide justice to the victims, to provide healing for the families, and to ensure that as we go forward this tragedy is ended.”
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, women
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An urgent fix is needed in Ontario children’s aid
CAS officials failed to make mandatory checks of the Ontario Child Abuse Register to examine the prior history of individuals involved with the kids… Some societies didn’t screen for the presence of domestic violence in a child’s family, or even examine their own records… A survey of closed cases that had to be reopened found almost half involved the same risk factors that led to the CAS being summoned in the first place… A thorough housecleaning is in order.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, Health, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Child protection system seems built to fail
We pay for the sprawling CAS network with our tax dollars — disbursing $1.47 billion last year — and we invest our hope and trust in them. Why then have our governments historically passed on the dollars, while also passing the buck, to independent agencies that are publicly funded but privately run? … The ministry of children and youth services consistently fails to enforce compliance even when its inspectors identify obvious problems.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Liberals under pressure to fix Ontario’s child protection system
In more than half of child abuse investigations… children’s aid societies failed to make mandatory checks of the Ontario Child Abuse Register. The register would note if caregivers had a history of abuse… The ministry often failed to enforce compliance with regulations when its inspectors identified problems in group or foster homes… about half of children’s aid societies had their funding reduced in 2013-14, forcing some to cut frontline staffing and eliminate programs for children receiving protection.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Four fixes for Canada’s broken justice system
One Criminal Code amendment can undo the worst of the mandatory measures that have eliminated judicial discretion and thereby reduced public safety… Second, the most serious contributor to overcrowding in provincial/territorial prisons is the growth in the number of remand prisoners — most of whom are still legally innocent… Third, repeal the most egregious government-supported private member’s bills controlling release from penitentiary… Fourth, refocus tax dollars on high-risk offenders, and stop wasting money on those who are low-risk.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction
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Time to give credit where it is due [Harper Gov’t.]
They made training in the skilled trades a priority… They made departmental spending reviews the norm in Ottawa… They made life easier for families with disabled members… They refrained from slashing provincial transfers… They steered Canada through the 2008-2009 recession with minimal damage… On the negative side of the ledger, the Harper government turned Ottawa into an increasingly impenetrable bastion, weakened democratic institutions, divided Canadians into friends and foes and enacted harsh, punitive laws.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, economy, ideology
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Trudeau begins to reverse Harper’s ugly legacy of over-reaching legislation
Given the growing number of court challenges to these laws, the Liberals should fix what’s wrong, as speedily as possible, then turn their attention to other issues… Here are a few places to start: Bill C-51… Citizenship… Sentencing… Refugees… On Harper’s watch Canadian law grew ever more heedless of civil rights, contemptuous of the judiciary, unreasonably punitive, and unfriendly to minorities and refugees. Canadians voted for something better on Oct. 19.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, featured, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism
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Canada will implement UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Carolyn Bennett says
The Crown already has a constitutionally protected “duty to consult” with aboriginal peoples on issues that might affect their interests, but the UN declaration goes much further and calls on governments to obtain “free, prior and informed consent,” including when it comes to natural resources development… “We are committed to sitting down early, at the earliest possible moment, on every single thing that will affect indigenous people in Canada…”
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
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Trudeau makes public his ministerial mandate letters — their marching orders for four years
All 30 “mandate letters” were publicly posted on the prime minister’s website as part of Trudeau’s promised “plan for open and transparent government for Canadians.” It is a first for the federal government, and included a signal that the ministers will be held to a higher ethical standard, with the caution that “the arrangement of your private affairs should bear the closest public scrutiny… the government has “expanded or strengthened” rules, including guidance on non-partisan use of departmental communications resources and the new code of conduct for exempt staff.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, philanthropy, rights, standard of living
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