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Everything you need to know about the parties’ platforms, from taxes and terrorism to the environment
Here’s your guide to the four main parties’ record and pledges as the campaign begins: Economy, Taxes And Pocketbook Issues / Security And Terrorism: / Energy And Environment / Infrastructure And Transport / Foreign Affairs And Defence / Social Issues / Democratic Reform And Governance / Justice / Aboriginal Issues
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, Health, ideology, Indigenous, pensions, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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From the U.K., a lesson on judicial appointments
With the passage of the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005, an independent body for the appointment of judges and tribunal members was created to ensure that those holding judicial office are selected solely on the basis of merit, through a fair and open competition. The members of the Judicial Appointments Commission are themselves selected through open competition, other than the three members from the judiciary.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, standard of living
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Ontario’s labour ministry must collect unpaid wages
It’s hard to believe you could work for a company and not get paid. But that’s what’s happening to thousands of workers across Ontario each year. And though the Ministry of Labour has the means to collect wages on behalf of employees… Its current success rate is only 37 per cent on the cases where it actually issued orders to pay. Worse, it prosecuted only eight employers who had refused to pay. That is alarming. It’s a Get Out of Jail Free card for employers who refuse to pay their workers.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Stephen Harper’s Courts: How the judiciary has been remade
Criminal defence lawyers are underrepresented… Academics are, as well, with some notable exceptions. So, too, is anyone who has a senior role in a group with the word “reform” in its title… Business lawyers are favoured. Prosecutors are favoured… “It’s very clear that it’s almost impossible for a judge who comes from the political centre or to the left to be appointed… which means that the appointment of judges is from a very small pool of lawyers.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Anti-terror bill not in keeping with Canada’s international obligations: U.N.
The government should consider rewriting the law to ensure it complies, impose better safeguards so information-sharing doesn’t lead to human rights abuses and put in place oversight mechanisms for security and intelligence agencies… The report also details concerns about the pay gap between men and women, violence against women, prison conditions, the detention of immigrants and the ongoing investigation by the Canada Revenue Agency of the political activities of charities.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Two rights groups launch Charter challenge of Bill C-51
The groups’ court filing called the law an inversion of the judiciary’s role as a protector of constitutional rights, and a violation of judges’ independence from government. The groups are seeking a declaration from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that the law threatens the right to liberty, free speech, privacy, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and the right to move between provinces, and must be struck down.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Most of Canada’s prisoners have never been convicted of anything. Why are they in jail?
In most cases, the accused are minor offenders: drug users, people with mental health issues accused of non-violent crimes, first-time offenders. Twenty years ago, they would have automatically gotten bail… The result? “Less people are being released on bail, less quickly, and with more conditions, during a time of historically low and still-declining crime rates.” … The system is broken… Is there a politician in Canada with the courage to take up the cause?
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Stephen Harper offers a record of selective accomplishment
He did introduce a universal child care benefit. To pay for it, his government de-invested in preschool learning and child care centres. His final promise — to cut medical wait times — was a mirage. Harper knew the provinces, not Ottawa, controlled the delivery of health services… Nor did he offer — or attempt — to reduce poverty, strengthen democracy or respect the courts. If voters assumed these were inadvertent oversights, they were wrong… It reflects Harper’s ideology, not the mandate he sought from voters.
Tags: budget, child care, corrections, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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The world’s nicest, most law-abiding generation
The past 50 years have been a watershed for attitudes toward everything from sexism and human rights to littering (now almost a capital offence). By almost any measure you can find, people across the developed world today are the least violent, most law-abiding, hardest-working and most tolerant generation who ever lived… The biggest measurable change is in violent crime… It’s also awfully hard to complain about kids today. Most are conscientious and well-behaved. They don’t rebel the way the boomers did.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, globalization, ideology, women, youth
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Let judges ease the burden on the poor
… set fines can have dramatically different impacts on different people. For some, a $10,000 penalty will be a severe but manageable burden. For others, like Jaques, getting out from under it is an impossible task. It would be fairer if fines were levied in proportion to the ability to pay, as is done in some U.S. states and such countries as Germany and France.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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