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Drug policy seriously outdated
Canada now faces an important choice. Our government can persist in intensifying the misguided and thoroughly debunked war on drugs, including blocking evidence-based health services with ill-conceived legislation and continuing to waste taxpayers’ dollars by prosecuting and jailing people who need such services. Or we could join the growing consensus that it’s time to abandon the empty declarations of the 1990s and rethink global drug policy, and thereby actually make people and communities healthier and safer.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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A national inquiry would empower First Nation women
What really is needed is not just an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, but a broader public inquiry into how to empower the First Nations community, and women in particular. Such an inquiry should look at how First Nation community life and governance is contributing to the problem of missing and murdered indigenous women.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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An inquiry means legitimacy
… we must know why our sisters and daughters are being disproportionately targeted and we must develop a strategy for prevention. It is for this reason that we need a collective response. That response is the launching of a public inquiry… A public inquiry would provide us all with a more comprehensive understanding of the issue and a road map for ensuring that this stops… This is a national crisis that cries out for an informed and aggressive national response.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, Indigenous, women
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Posturing is the only reason for a missing women inquiry
… aboriginal women were (and are) largely being victimized by aboriginal men, which means that solutions to the problem lie not within a public inquiry, but within aboriginal communities about why this is happening – and, of course, in a wider reflection on the disadvantaged situation of aboriginals in Canada… There were 33 female aboriginal homicides in 1981 and 36 in 2012, the latter coming after a large jump in the female aboriginal population… there is no epidemic of killing of aboriginal women
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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The ideological roots of Stephen Harper’s vendetta against sociology
So what does Harper have against sociology? First, Harper is clearly trumpeting a standard component of neo-liberal ideology: that there are no social phenomena, only individual incidents… Neo-liberalism paints all social problems as individual problems. The benefit of this for those who share Harper’s agenda, of course, is that if there are no social problems or solutions, then there is little need for government. Individuals are solely responsible for the problems they face.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, standard of living
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Canada’s Ferguson? Aboriginal uprisings
… society fostered a tier of people who don’t have a stake in society. They are not participants in the economic system… People with jobs to drive to don’t blockade roads. People with their own private property generally don’t loot from and damage other people’s property… A critical mass of unemployed young men with no outlet for their mental and physical energies is a recipe for disaster no matter their ethnicity. Only more harm can come of this…
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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From sugar to drugs, Harper has turned everything partisan
… its public service announcements (PSAs) are suspect. Where an anti-pot ad aimed at teens seems partisan and nutritional guidelines seem to go light on the sugar lobby… What’s really sad about the Tory modus operandi is that worthy public health initiatives are discredited because fewer people trust this government to act in anything but its own interest…
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Canada’s broken bail system penalizes the most vulnerable
… on a typical day, more than half (54.5 per cent, to be precise) of the 25,000 people in Canada’s provincial jails aren’t guilty of anything. Instead, they are being detained while awaiting trial or for their bail conditions to be set… This is enormously inefficient and expensive… More importantly, this broken system is unjust… The irony is that more people are being detained at great public expense even as crime rates fall to record lows.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Former judge Frank Iacobucci sets roadmap for police and mentally ill
… the status quo is no longer an option… Equipping frontline officers with small “lapel cameras,” documenting their on-the-job interactions, has been called for in the past… More deployment of Tasers… is also urged… Other sound recommendations include: Requiring all new constables to undergo a mandatory “mental health first aid course.” Making de-escalation of confrontations and successful handling of persons in crisis an important consideration when deciding promotions.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, featured, ideology, mental Health
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Stephen Harper’s incoherent approach to crime
Given the voluminous research that has examined the relationship between crime and sentence severity, it is dishonest to suggest that these changes will better protect children. The prime minister understands the value of evidence: After all, he urged parents to follow the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of vaccinations for their children. In criminal law, apparently, evidence is trumped by political needs… Canadians and their justice system are not well served.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology
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