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Alan Borovoy was a fighter for civil liberties to the end
Borovoy was best-known as the outspoken general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for 41 years, until his retirement in 2009… He took his inspiration from the progressive movements of the 1930s and 1940s, which made him a civil libertarian and liberal of the old school. In the shadow of the Holocaust, he came to believe that “the best way to protect the Jewish people was to promote greater justice for all people.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Americans get tough on ‘tough on crime’ policy
In the United States, “tough on crime” measures of the past four decades swelled the prison population by a factor of seven. Prisons are crowded and costly. The same trends are in the early stages in Canada. As the Auditor-General noted, crime is down, but the male prison population is up, largely because offenders are serving more of their sentences in custody… The government scorned the federal Justice Department experts who knew the policies would fail.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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An alternative to mandatory minimum sentences
… one side demands stiffer, more certain sentences for offenders who threaten public safety and the other sees them as “blunt instruments that may deprive courts of the ability to tailor proportionate sentences at the lower end of a sentencing range.” … , sentencing guidelines offer the opportunity to structure judicial discretion by providing more specific sentencing ranges based on a variety of stated criteria.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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The Tories want to have their cake and imprison it, too
Canadians… have been spending an additional $91-million a year in order to be less protected from crime…. The Conservative government has… slowed the rate of release for prisoners and this has contributed to a 6-per-cent increase in prison populations over the past four years… In fact crime rates have been dropping since 1991 – 15 years before the Conservatives came to power… “Truth in sentencing” is what the Conservatives call their policy of making it more difficult for inmates to be paroled.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living, tax
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A tragic tale of two Gladues
These two Gladue cases illustrate the degree to which Indigenous women are both over-victimized and over-criminalized… Indigenous offenders — and most dramatically Indigenous women — continue to be disproportionately affected by this government’s increased use of mandatory minimums and the erosion of conditional sentences for community-based sentencing where there is no risk to the public.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, women
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46 CAS agencies, 46 standards of care for vulnerable children
The provincial government, which spends $1.5 billion annually funding children’s aid societies, has collected the information for decades but doesn’t use it to compare performance… “Why are senior executives not brought together in the same room to discuss what these numbers mean? Right now, we don’t have a firm grasp on what works, or even have agreement on desired outcomes. We can not even begin to have such discussions unless and until we start comparing data.”
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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How C-51 will undermine Canada’s business climate
We are already concerned about the negative impact the activities of CSE and CSIS, including reports of spying on our trading partners, have had on Canada’s reputation. The impact of these new rules could collapse the necessary distance between investigative and executional powers. This distance should be increased, not done away with… Most importantly, we ask for data security. We know that many of our clients, including our government, will only host services in Canada because of the invasive privacy issues in the U.S.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Harper fought the law and the law won
Ideologically, Harper claims to favour small government, but his taste for punishment leads to bigger and more costly government: more jails, more jailing, more solitary confinement, and so on. This is the American style. It doesn’t work here… All of Harper’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws resemble each other in that they chip away at judges themselves. In his world, judges – who exist to state reasons out loud, to balance punishment with mercy – might as well not be in the room.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Supreme Court deals new blows to mandatory-sentencing rules
The government has passed dozens of mandatory minimum sentences for crimes related to guns, drugs and sex offences, limiting judges’ discretion to decide what fitting sentences are in individual cases. There has never been a presumption in Canadian law that minimum sentences are unconstitutional, but they were relatively unusual before 2006, when the Conservatives came to office… federal prison populations have reached record highs during a time of falling crime.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights, youth
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What are the police for?
Defenders of the OPP’s conduct, and this includes former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, say that the police did a great job keeping the peace in Caledonia, but here’s the thing — that’s not their job. Police officers enforce the law. The military keeps the peace — and if the situation was truly as bad as Mr. Lewis says… the military should have been the ones on the ground… The OPP was given an impossible task there. The scandal isn’t that it made mistakes or failed to keep everyone happy. It’s that it was put in that position in the first place.
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