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Ballooning police budgets don’t improve public safety
The KPMG report… outlines a significant program for structural reform, calling for the closure of major police divisional buildings in favour of more “storefront” operations, and extensive civilianization of police roles that do not require advanced police training… the content of the KPMG document is light-years behind the vanguard of evidence-based community safety and crime reduction policies already being practiced by innovative police leaders…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, standard of living
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Canada finally has a minister of social justice
The new prime minister’s message was clear: Supporting families – lifting them out of poverty, helping them find affordable housing, getting them into the workforce and improving their children’s life chances – is a stand-alone job, one that remains at the top of his agenda… Duclos founded the Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network. He served as a page in the House of Commons under Pierre Trudeau and joined Canada World Youth, an international organization than trains volunteers 15-to-35 to be community workers at home and abroad.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, disabilities, economy, Health, homelessness, ideology, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Most people in jail today are innocent
The homeless, addicted and mentally ill (who are often all three) are more likely to end up in jail, innocent or not, and more likely to be a victim of a crime, than the rest of us…. the bail system is all about public fears, and, I hate to say it, self-preservation by the decision-makers… The legal test for bail in Canada is similarly organized around risk aversion: risk of flight, risk of harm and then more risk analysis. Protecting the public from risk is a mug’s game that’s ended up jailing a lot of innocent people.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, rights
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We know that Canada has one of the highest rates of kids in care in the world. What we don’t know may be worse
So why does Canada have so many kids in care? … The answer largely lies in the approach. Canada (as well as the U.S.) favours a “child safety” approach to children’s welfare. This means that if a welfare agency identifies a child at risk, he or she is removed from the home… It’s time we took a dramatic new approach to kids in care and overhauled our system to focus on preventing rather than reacting to child maltreatment.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, youth
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Ontario’s new rules on carding are a welcome reform
… the proposed changes should strengthen Ontario’s police services by boosting public trust and inspiring fresh confidence that those who serve and protect are carrying out their task in an unprejudiced manner. There’s no doubt public faith in police fairness has been severely undercut by the discredited practice of carding, or street checks… The draft regulation would “expressly prohibit the random and arbitrary collection of identifying information by police,” and it forbids collection based on race.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Province sets strict new limits on police street checks
Police officers will no longer be able to arbitrarily stop people for questioning based on their appearance or the neighbourhood they live in, Ontario’s minister of community safety and correctional services said Wednesday. Yasir Naqvi said police officers will also have to tell citizens that the stop is voluntary and that the person can walk away. The officers will be required to provide a reason for stop, as well as documentation and information about complaint mechanism.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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EU’s tax message to big companies: The game’s over
… the EU fired its first shot at tax-avoiding multinationals: those engaged in a form of fiscal villainy that apparently costs the world between $100-billion (U.S.) and $240-billion in lost tax revenues… known in accounting jargon as transfer pricing… The trick involves shifting taxable profits from one jurisdiction to another, perhaps by charging too much interest for an intercompany loan, or an exorbitant fee for a bit of internal management consultancy, until the profits have been siphoned from an operating subsidiary in a high-tax jurisdiction (where there are assets, jobs and real activity), and arrive in a tax haven, a letter box and an e-mail address in the Caribbean.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, jurisdiction, tax
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Toronto’s geography of inequity
… either we invest in these communities now and fix these trends, or we’ll pay much more later on. “Poverty is expensive” … unemployment and criminal justice costs down the road, if trends don’t change… The policy areas that need to be addressed include quality affordable housing, availability of community services, income security, and what Barata calls workforce development. “With precarity, people aren’t going to get training through work, it’ll be out of pocket, but the market demands it.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, housing, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, standard of living
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Let’s focus on the real barbaric practices
It’s barbaric that almost half of the population of Nunavut cannot access healthy food… that federal cuts have led to defunding of crucial services for women, such as rape crisis centres, shelters and reproductive health services… that more than 1,200 indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing… The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was not created for some at the expense of others. We are all deserving of the rights that are enshrined therein, and we all have a responsibility toward each other.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
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How we created a Canadian prison crisis
Prisons in most parts of Canada are experiencing overcrowding, violence, insufficient rehabilitative programs, a lack of graduated, supportive reintegration programs for prisoners returning to communities, and inadequate mental and physical medical attention for an increasingly older and needier prison population. Our prisons are no longer able to provide the tools and incentives to reform prisoners and return them to a life free of crime in the way that they have done in the past.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living, tax
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