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Anti-terror bill a setback for human rights in Canada
Bill C-51 authorizes Federal Court judges to approve, in secret hearings, CSIS threat-reduction activities that would violate the Charter of Rights. So much for the notion that the judiciary is to be the guardian of the constitution… End runs around the ban on torture, around prohibitions on unlawful arrest and imprisonment, around fair trial guarantees and around protection against discrimination haven’t delivered a safer world… Embracing, not ignoring, human rights is where we need to start — and where we need to end up.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Canada needs more crime prevention, not vengeance
The pending legislation is simply the latest in a string of moves to turn the justice system into a machine for pure vengeance. While perhaps cathartic, vengeance is a misspent emotion — burning the cash that should be invested in what actually prevents violence and keeps front-line cops and communities safe… Putting our money into the front end of criminal justice equivalent to 10 per cent of what we are spending on pure vengeance, we would achieve a 50 per cent reduction in violence over the next five to 10 years and so would likely save hundreds of lives and billions of tax dollars each year.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living
Posted in Child & Family Debates | 1 Comment »
Wynne’s welcome plan to challenge violence against women
The “Action Plan to Stop Sexual Violence and Harassment” includes: – Powerful TV ads targeting sexual harassment and violence against women, coupled with a hashtag campaign #WhoWillYouHelp… – Stronger workplace safety legislation requiring employers to investigate sexual harassment. – Measures to ensure that assault cases are prosecuted more fairly, effectively and respectfully. – Better funding for survivor support. – And previously announced changes to the sex-education curriculum that focus on consent and healthy relationships.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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No need for Tories’ ‘Throw Away the Key Act’
The suggestion is that Canada’s streets are menaced by a wave of elderly jailbirds, released on parole after a scant 25 years in the slammer. This is — does it even need saying? — nonsense. Not every prisoner is paroled after 25 years: only those judged at low risk of re-offending. Those designated as “dangerous offenders” can already be kept locked up for life.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, standard of living
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The solutions at hand for aboriginal women
… both aboriginal and non-aboriginal leaders have spoken of the need for comprehensive improvement in aboriginal Canadians’ lives: better and less crowded housing, education improvement, fighting addictions, job opportunities… the bulk of the problem is bound up in precisely those “sociological phenomena” — poverty, misery, addictions, hopelessness — that can be relied upon to produce violent outcomes in any society, of any ethnicity.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, rights, women, youth
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Why Canada is no longer a leader in global drug policy
… we know what we should do: Supervised injection sites; prescription heroin; medical cannabis dispensaries; crack pipe distribution; drug testing kits; Naloxone for reversing opioid overdose… these innovative health services reduce the harms of drugs and save lives, and we all agree “the current approach is not working.” And yet, access to these important innovations is unequal across Canada because of a lack of leadership at the federal level
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Small victory for aboriginal women
The Prime Minister refused to acknowledge any “sociological” link between dramatic overrepresentation of aboriginal women in the homicide statistics and the miserable conditions in which they lived. Their deaths were merely crimes that the police had a “good track record” of solving. A dialogue among the willing — all 13 provincial premiers and territorial leaders, two federal cabinet ministers, the leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, the Native Women’s Association of Canada… may not offer the ultimate solution but it is the best option at this juncture.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women
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Prime Minister, this isn’t how we should do things in Canada
Through all the rhetoric, take note of how our government classifies terrorism. It applies only to terror allegedly plotted and committed by Muslims, not “murderous misfits” like those in Halifax who weren’t “culturally” motivated… The government that says it is committed to protect Canadians is the same one that alienates the very communities it needs to empower and work with.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, women
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Harper government should fix flawed anti-terror bill or scrap it
… Bill C-51… “goes very far” by criminalizing words and thoughts, enabling a surveillance state and impinging on basic freedoms. Far from being the “sound, reasonable, well-balanced” law that Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney described… it is a coarse affront to civil rights. While it is far from clear that the bill would noticeably bolster public safety, it most assuredly would sap our freedom. Constitutional and legal experts who have pored over the fine print raise serious concerns:
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, rights, standard of living
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How to clean up the inconvenient stench in Ontario politics
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien first introduced limits for companies and unions, and Stephen Harper eliminated them entirely. Our current prime minister has it right, while our premier has it wrong… The political wheeling and wheedling and dealing will continue behind closed doors. If we really want to clean up the lingering odour in Ontario, we need to follow the big money. And ban it.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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