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For sex workers, the Nordic model still falls short
Laws and policies premised on the Nordic model, which outlaws the purchase of sex or the profiting from its sale, will continue to undermine sex workers’ physical and psychological integrity. Involvement in the sex trade would continue to carry stigma. It would also mean continuing to work in the most clandestine circumstances, leading all too easily to exploitation and violence… the Nordic model is entirely consistent with a moralistic agenda and tough-on-crime ethos.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights, women
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Ontario relying on police to deliver what passes for mental-health care in this province
Toronto Police and its hospital partners formed the first Mobile Crisis Intervention Team (MCIT), as these squads are called, 14 years ago. There are now six teams… In the public imagination, MCITs are seen as the answer to the increasing number of calls police receive involving those who are mentally ill or emotionally disturbed… But what they are at best, and what they only ever will be at best, is a small part of the answer… There remain few supports for the seriously mentally ill.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Canadian prison overcrowding going to get worse in long-term, auditor general reports
Double-bunking is, according to government policy, supposed to be a temporary measure. But it has grown and appears to have become a permanent fixture of the system… as CSC expanded prisons in recent years, it failed to properly add sufficient segregation cells to isolate some offenders, and add health-care facilities for inmates at the jails… CSC officials expect that the long-distance relocation of offenders, and the associated costs, will continue after the expansion of facilities is completed
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Harper’s end run around democracy
Currently, if an MP and the chief electoral officer disagree on an MP’s election expense return, the Canada Elections Act provides that the MP can no longer sit or vote in the House of Commons until the expense return is changed to the chief electoral officer ’s satisfaction… Bill C-23 allows the MP to continue sitting until a judge has ruled on the dispute… [which] could be the factor deciding who forms the government
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, participation, rights
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Ontario must target violence in its jails
… attacks in the province’s 29 adult correctional institutions have jumped by almost one-third, with 3,000 assaults in 2012-13 compared to 2,300 five years earlier… The ministry’s own figures show that most of Ontario’s 29 jails hold more prisoners than they were designed for, and cells meant for two people can hold three or more.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Health, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Police are pricing themselves out of business
A system in which the salary awards for a few employees are wholly unrelated to efficiency, effectiveness or productivity, yet trigger property tax increases that persistently outstrip the rate of economic growth, is unsustainable… Stable call volume notwithstanding, between 2002 and 2012 provincial expenditures on security grew almost twice as fast as GDP. Yet, there is no evidence that greater expenditure has either made the country any safer or improved the quality of service.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, ideology, standard of living
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Why the Fair Elections Act is, in fact, fair
The risks of vouching are obvious at a glance. Worse, the safeguards against these risks were violated in 50,735 cases (42 per cent of the time) in the 2011 election… These facts have led the government to require ID when people vote… The Fair Elections Act will require Elections Canada to communicate this basic information, while parties do their job of voter motivation… Canadians instinctively understand that these changes are reasonable and fair.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, participation, rights
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Republicans suddenly get smart on crime
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives should take their cue from their American cousins, who have renounced decades of increasingly harsh sentences as an utter failure. All the country has to show for it is a bloated prison budget and a lost generation. Canada can’t afford to make the same mistake.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Disturbing snapshot of women’s shelters
On an ordinary autumn day 4,178 women and 2,490 children were living in emergency shelters across Canada… Surprisingly, only 20 per cent of shelters were in large cities. The vast majority were in small towns and rural areas… On the day of the survey, Canadian shelters turned away 286 women and 205 children. There simply wasn’t room… Most shelter users — traumatized wives and girlfriends, trapped prostitutes and isolated immigrants — can’t afford housing.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, homelessness, mental Health, multiculturalism
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No CEOs paid price for 2008 meltdown. Here’s why
In North America, 400,000 Canadians lost their jobs and household income, while in the U.S. more than eight million workers were rendered jobless through no fault of their own… A clutch of celebrity financiers pushed the global economy over the edge. But there’s no law against that, also no vigorously enforced regulation and oversight, and it can’t be done without the acquiescence of a vast number of gullible people of all walks of life.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, ideology, pensions, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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