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Give homeless a decent place and savings may follow
… if you want to end homelessness, just put people into decent housing. Cynics warn of soaring costs, but a study done on the homeless in Toronto shows that “Housing First” initiatives don’t just improve lives, they can also deliver considerable savings… when society provides down-and-out people with a room they can call their own — a place to put down roots, where they don’t have to worry about being assaulted or arrested — they begin to heal. Hospitalizations drop, shelter use declines, and arrests go down
Tags: budget, crime prevention, disabilities, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty
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Abused women need our support
In Ontario an average of 30 women are killed each year by intimate partners. Eighty-one per cent of these homicides occur during an actual or pending separation; 66 per cent of these murders happen in the first six months after separation… For a woman to be safe she needs to leave her abuser, but by leaving she puts herself and her children at even greater risk of being killed. We blame her for staying with her abuser and we blame her for leaving. It’s time to move beyond victim blaming and support women when they leave abusive relationships.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, women
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Canadians have right to online anonymity, Supreme Court rules
“Anonymity is an important safeguard for privacy interests online,” Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote for a unanimous court… It has implications for the ability of police to probe the Internet for the purpose of fighting crime and terrorism — and for the courts, which some say could be inundated with police requests for warrants… “An Internet Service Provider’s records of its IP address assignments are like a cipher key that unlocks Internet privacy
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, rights
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Why did prostitution bill go off the rails?
They come up with a perfectly civilized and modern anti-prostitution bill that promotes gender equality and shifts a legal burden from exploited women directly onto to the pathetic men who buy sex. And then what do they do? They insert pointlessly mean bits about which streets prostituted women can literally stand on, making their lives harsher and building a springboard for another court challenge…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Let the buyer of sex beware
This law breaks entirely new ground in Canada, where prostitution is currently legal. Now, the government wants to make it a crime to buy sex, or to communicate for the purposes thereof… Prostitution is essentially a transaction between two people – a sex worker and a client. Legalizing the actions of one, while outlawing those of the other… The selling of sex is forced into the shadows, making prostitutes’ jobs more dangerous.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, women
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Peter MacKay’s prostitution law a failure on all counts
When johns are targeted, prostitutes continue to take steps to avoid police detection; they are unable to screen clients and remain at risk of violence, abuse and HIV. Prohibition of the purchase of sex is as likely to violate sex workers’ rights of security in the eyes of the Supreme Court, as prohibition of the selling of sex… The government says it will spend $20-million to assist sex workers to leave the industry. But does Mr. MacKay seriously think this is going to reduce the number of women selling sex – or improve the lot of those who remain?
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, rights, women, youth
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The Canadian Government Has Given Up on Protecting Your Privacy
The latest bill grants telecom companies and other organizations legal immunity for the voluntary disclosure of their customers’ personal information. Law enforcement officials have confirmed that this goes well beyond basic subscriber information and may include transmission and tracking data… The bill also establishes a low threshold for warrants to access metadata, which numerous experts confirm may reveal private and sensitive information
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Mandatory minimums for drug crimes have no future in Canada
New legislation compels judges to impose a minimum one-year prison term on all individuals who meet a handful of criteria. Judges can no longer consider whether it is in the public interest to incarcerate someone… Canada has experienced the same fall in serious crime as the rest of the industrialized world… The federal Conservatives are undoubtedly trying to mobilize voters, but it’s difficult to understand why we would want to support costly incarceration at a time of peaceful streets and social stability.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights
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Banks have lost their way, Carney says
“We need to recognize the tension between pure free-market capitalism, which reinforces the primacy of the individual at the expense of the system, and social capital, which requires from individuals a broader sense of responsibility for the system,” he said. “A sense of self must be accompanied by a sense of the systemic.” … Carney made the case for reform of the “hard and soft infrastructure of markets” following evidence of rate-rigging and foreign-exchange manipulation.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, ideology, rights, standard of living
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For aboriginal women, an inquiry is the quickest route to the slowest
… affected aboriginal communities are more interested in action than more talk… Our police forces need to reallocate resources to meet this urgent need… a national action plan… is needed to enhance and better co-ordinate prevention efforts that focus on potential victims, as well as potential offenders… Legalized/decriminalized prostitution is opposed by many aboriginal women’s groups and would only make things worse.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living, women, youth
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