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Ottawa renews push to limit mentally ill offenders’ release
The federal government is reintroducing a contentious bill that would restrict the release of “high-risk” mentally ill offenders despite opposition from lawyers and mental-health professionals. The legislation would alter the rules for those found not criminally responsible (NCR) for a crime, in part by giving judges new powers to designate some violent offenders as “high-risk.” … They are usually detained and treated in a hospital until a review board determines that they no longer pose a threat to the public.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health
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Solving Canada’s adoption crisis
30,000 Canadian children in foster or institutional care… If they “age out” of care at age 16 or 17, without becoming part of a family, the odds rise dramatically that they will fall prey to many social ills. Criminal activity, homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, teen pregnancy — all become more likely. Ironically, this is likely to lead to another generation of children living out their lives in foster or institutional care, as their parents won’t be able to provide for them.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Prison life steeped in myths
In fact, two-thirds of provincial prisoners have not been convicted of anything. They are in pre-trail detention (known as “remand”) costing taxpayers roughly $400 a day for an adult, $550 a day for a youth… This underlines the link between poverty and incarceration. Growing up in a low-income family increases a child’s risk of ending up in foster care, dropping out of school, drifting onto the streets, getting hooked on drugs and being arrested. The vast majority of prisoners are from poor households torn apart by domestic violence.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, standard of living
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People with mental disabilities fear police
Few had ever seen a mobile crisis intervention team… The officers who answered their calls for help — or the 911 calls placed by friends, family members or concerned bystanders — burst into their apartments or rooming houses, barked out orders and traumatized them… They feared they would be shot or jolted with electric current. They still fear their police records will follow them wherever they go. And they doubt things will ever change…
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Ontario must address violence in long-term care homes
… [the] study found aggression in 11 per cent of Ontario’s 78,000 nursing home residents… Front-line staff need far more behavioural training than provided in their eight-month certification programs. As well, the province must invest in separate facilities for aggressive residents, especially the mentally ill who would once have been housed in psychiatric facilities instead of living among fragile men and women. Solutions may be costly, but they are necessary.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Your income has a greater impact on your health than lifestyle choices
… the data is in: the best way to control health and social spending is not through cuts, but by tackling inequality, fighting poverty, and investing in healthy communities for our children… Research has shown that economic and social conditions are more important factors in determining health than individual and family behaviour… The good news for taxpayers is that investing in our children is actually good for the economy. James Heckman, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, found that every dollar invested in early child education saves between $4 and $17 in future social costs.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Republican havoc in Washington — and Ottawa
While Republicans have shut down government twice in 17 years, Stephen Harper prorogues Parliament when he feels like it. When he does open it, he skips it often… He has adopted several Republican nostrums. – Give corporate tax breaks but gut public services, employment insurance benefits and funding to NGOs… Oppose gun controls, wage an endless war on drugs and spend billions on “tough on crime” measures when, in fact, crime is going down…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, ideology
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Squandering Canada’s Moment
“Seizing” the moment would mean tackling the challenges that today’s Canada faces: stagnant or falling wages for middle- and lower-income Canadians; crises in Aboriginal education, food, housing, and missing and murdered women; high youth unemployment; eroding citizen trust in democracy; and environmental degradation, to name but a few. The throne speech did not offer any real substance on these issues… Instead, the speech outlined its clearest commitment yet to austerity, and to a leaner and meaner government, no matter the cost to our standard of living.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Women struggle in information vacuum
“The difficulty of collecting data about violence against women has been a barrier… However, the data that do exist tell us three things very clearly: this problem is big, it comes at a high cost, and we are making little or no progress in putting a stop to it.”… This problem is going to worsen as Statistics Canada keeps phasing out surveys
Tags: crime prevention, rights, women
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G20 verdict is a clear signal to Toronto police
The agonizingly slow quest for justice for the 1,100 protesters arrested, beaten and detained by police three years ago during the G20 summit in Toronto has finally produced a breakthrough… This week’s conviction would not have happened if the Star hadn’t dug up the evidence the police refused to provide; if a member of the public had not stepped forward with a video of the incident; if a tenacious team of lawyers had not pushed Nobody’s case through a thicket of procedural roadblocks; and if Torontonians had not sought accountability for the debacle on their streets.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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