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Three ways Liberals and NDP can win over conservative voters
… nobody likes the idea of wasting money… The voluntary National Household Survey cost $22-million more than the old census while yielding a lower-quality result. The Parliamentary Budget Office reported in 2013 that spending on the criminal justice system increased by $5-billion during the Conservatives’ first six years in government – a big spend (mostly from provincial budgets) on a problem that was improving on its own… between 2009 and 2013, the government spent over $370-million dollars on advertising
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, economy, ideology, immigration, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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The case for this bill has yet to be made
The bill is so broad and detailed that even normally well-informed Canadians may not grasp its full impact. All the more reason to subject it to close, extended scrutiny, rather than the rushed process the Conservatives have imposed. The onus is always on the state to show why the people’s liberties should be restricted, not on the citizens to show why it should not. That the government has not begun to discharge this obligation can only feed the growing unease over this bill.
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Jail report recommendations on mentally ill ‘positive and progressive,’ lawyer says
The report… recommends the creation of both “step down” and “stabilization unit” that could meet the needs of female inmates with major mental health issues… staffed by mental health professionals in select correctional facilities… The recommendations flowed from a settlement Jahn reached with the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services in 2013 after accusing the government of discrimination by locking her up for 23 hours a day in a windowless cell at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre instead of treating her mental illness.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Flaying the Anti-Terrorism Act
… rather than defend the indefensible the government should withdraw the bill, or rewrite it. It hasn’t got the balance right between giving the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and other agencies powers to keep Canadians safe, and respecting civil rights… The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, meanwhile, has questioned why the proposed legislation is needed at all, given that Canadian law already has “robust” tools to help combat terrorism.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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How complexity imperils faith in our public institutions
Too much of government is about measuring inputs, confirming processes, ensuring broad involvement from different parties rather than measuring actual outcomes. It is, of course, the outcomes that matter, in policing, in health care, in poverty abatement, in education. Yet it is the inputs (how much are we prepared to spend, how many person years are involved in the program, who are the groups to be consulted in program design?) that dominate the public debate or legislative discussion.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, poverty, standard of living
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Forget terrorists — be terrified of Harperites
… it’s the Conservatives we should be scared of… The Harperites gutted the gun registry against the advice of police chiefs across the country…. the Fair Elections Act that made elections unfair; Access to Information Act that made information inaccessible; Privacy Act that invaded your privacy… The Harperites want us to be terrified of terrorists, niqabis, criminals, thieves, etc. Time for us, in fact, to be terrified of the Harperite bigots, bullies and ideologues.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Harper’s dangerous advice on guns for rural security
In Canada, home invasions and violent assaults by strangers in rural areas are so rare that they are virtually unrecorded and unreported threats. And random gun violence is only slightly more likely in urban areas. A quick glance at our recent police data confirms 505 homicides last year for our whole country of 35 million. The weapon most used in homicides across Canada is a knife — easily available in our kitchens. In fact, 40 per cent of murder victims were killed with knives, 29 per cent by beating or strangulation and 26 per cent with a gun… 85 were gang-related shootings
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, standard of living
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Sweden’s prostitution solution
In 1999, it passed a law to criminalize the buyers of sex, but not the sellers… street prostitution has been cut by more than half since 1995… Many Swedes view prostitution not as a choice or a moral offence, but a form of male violence against women… when Amnesty International said it planned to lobby for legalization, Swedish women’s rights organizations were outraged.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Stephen Harper’s ‘lifer’ law has no purpose beyond cynical politics
Based on incarceration rates, Canada is the second most punitive correctional system in the developed world. We have become an isolated, penal outlier. In contrast, the U.S. — whose model inspired so much of our regressive penal legislation — is in full retreat from failed experiments with mandatory minimum sentences or three-strikes-and-you’re-out laws. Its mistakes are seen to have warehoused offenders under inhumane conditions while utterly failing to deter crime.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living
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Justin Trudeau’s welcome call for an end to fear-mongering
“Canada is where a million Muslims live and thrive in a free and open, secular democracy. The world needs more of that, not less of it,” he said. Yet “across Canada, and especially in my home province, Canadians are being encouraged by their government to be fearful of one another.” … The Conservatives “indulge the very same repressive impulse that they profess to condemn,” Trudeau said, by wielding the state’s power to restrict religious freedom and free speech.
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