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Parliament fails aboriginal women
All that remained of the original report was its once-poignant title: Invisible Women: A Call to Action. For the families of the victims, it was an enormous let-down. For human rights activists it was yet another demonstration of the Conservative government’s refusal to stand up for vulnerable minorities. For aboriginal women it was a devastating blow. The police had failed them, the courts had failed them and now their quest for justice had been spurned by the government of Canada.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Three ways Harper’s Bill C-23 undermines democracy
In a truly bizarre move, the Fair Elections Act proposes that the candidate or party that came first in the previous election choose poll supervisors. This would mean that the majority of polls in Canada’s next election would be supervised by an individual appointed by the Conservative Party of Canada, instead of by Elections Canada (a non-partisan body). The most dangerous aspect of the bill is that it prevents Elections Canada from doing its job, which is to protect the fairness of the electoral process
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Don’t undermine Elections Canada
Currently, Elections Canada protects the right to vote of citizens who lack standard forms of identification by allowing them to take an oath affirming their identity, citizenship, and residence in the polling division, and having a qualified voter from the same polling division vouch for their eligibility. In 2011, approximately 120,000 citizens relied on the vouching provision in order to vote. By eliminating vouching, the Fair Elections Act would disenfranchise many of these citizens.
Tags: crime prevention, homelessness, ideology, immigration, participation, rights, standard of living
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Social networks add layer of complexity to social work
The uncharted territory around social media poses many challenges for workers, and led the Canadian Association of Social Workers to draw up Social Media Guidelines, published in January this year. It focuses on ethical concerns… They need to be careful and professional and be cognizant of who has access to their information. And where do you draw the line when it comes to tracking people?
Tags: child care, crime prevention, rights, youth
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Prostitution is nothing more than work. Treat it that way
The thickets of morality, judgment and history have grown so thick around sex work that it’s hard to hack away the rhetoric and cut to the heart of the issue: How to provide a safe, regulated framework where the sellers and buyers of a commodity can meet and make their exchanges in peace, and where neither party is coerced or exploited.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, women
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Fair Elections Act: Slow it down, Mr. Poilievre (2)
… other troubling aspects to the legislation, which we will be examining over the course of this week. Today: an entirely uncalled-for amendment that would allow a political party to exclude from its campaign expenses the cost of raising funds from previous donors. The clause raises giant red flags. It’s based on no democratic principle that we can identify. It seems designed to promote political advantage rather than electoral fairness.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Fair Elections Act: Slow it down, Mr. Poilievre
The Harper government’s continued focus on the threat of voter fraud in federal elections is approaching absurdity. Everyone with any expertise who has examined the question in detail has arrived at the same conclusion: There is no threat. And yet the government insists that controversial provisions in its proposed Fair Elections Act are needed to eliminate this non-existent terror – even at the risk of disenfranchising thousands of legitimate voters.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, participation, rights
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Toronto research centre takes a deeper look at domestic violence
… Agencies serving victims of domestic violence often fail to work together, leaving women to run from place to place to rebuild their lives… aboriginal women are four times more likely to experience domestic violence than their non-aboriginal counterparts… ethnic and cultural factors… accounted for only half the discrepancy. The rest was explained by poverty, poor education and deleterious forms of self-medication (alcohol and drugs).
Tags: crime prevention, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, poverty, women
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Legalizing All Drugs: What If Mexico’s Ex-Prez Is Right?
… they do it with tobacco, and they run lotteries after generations of opposing gambling… The revenue stream would simply go into government accounts, not those of the cartels. But those revenues would still have to pay for cops and paramedics and social workers. Some dealers would sell cheaper, untaxed drugs, and would find a ready market… The jails wouldn’t empty, and people would still die from drug misuse or abuse.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, tax
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