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Reconciling Muslim practices with Western principles
… it will take great effort to develop Islamic practice that has a Canadian tone, with regional variations. This implies ceasing blind importation of overseas cultural practices, or consultation of overseas imams who have no desire to understand Western cultural context… We need intelligent, dispassionate discussions of how Western principles, such as gender equality, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression and critical inquiry, meld with overarching Islamic principles.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Putting blinders on Big Brother’s surveillance apparatus
From environmental activists to members of the Occupy and Idle No More movements, the net seems to continue to be cast even wider. The time has come for a national dialogue about online surveillance in Canada… the Canadian Internet Registration Authority… will be dedicating its Canadian Internet Forum to a discussion on government and corporate online surveillance. I invite you to join us at cif.cira.ca.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Harper government’s tough-on-crime laws are outdated
This leaves Harper in the lurch… His crime legislation, designed for the George Bush era, is an anachronism in the Barack Obama presidency… it will give both the Liberals and New Democrats solid ground on which build to platforms that emphasize rehabilitation, drug treatment and restitution, as opposed to ever more imprisonment.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights
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Mr. Harper’s drug stance falls behind
If the Harper government needs more evidence it is heading in the wrong direction on marijuana laws, it was provided Monday by the U.S. attorney general, who conceded America’s drug laws have been a failure and have wrongly punished and injured millions of young people… The Conservatives are on the wrong course and the wrong side of history…
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, youth
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Ontario’s troubled youth deserve better care at Brampton superjail
… the Ontario government must take immediate action to transform an unpredictable and punitive jailhouse culture, especially when it enables certain staff to treat young people like hardened adult criminals. While some teens… have been toughened by years in street gangs, that doesn’t mean they can’t be reached… troubling is the shocking lack of programs for anger management, life counseling and substance abuse… to help inmates become functioning members of society.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, youth
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What the premiers really want: A national partner
… the federal government says it prefers to stay out of provincial business (which makes all the more questionable its intrusive Canada Job Grant program). On occasion, it does engage in bilateral discussions with individual provinces on selected issues. But there is little sense of national with this national government… [Yet] Virtually all of the issues on the provincial list touch federal portfolios either directly or indirectly through their links to justice, transportation, communication and Aboriginal affairs.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Online voting: the ultimate hackers’ challenge
Online votes instantly become a negotiable commodity. What are a voter’s user ID and password worth? A beer? Ten or twenty bucks? At work, out-of-town on business, or on vacation on election day? Provide your information to your favourite party, and they’ll ensure you vote. For them, of course. What happens when cynical voters give their authentication and authorization information to everyone who asks?
Tags: crime prevention, participation, rights
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Canada’s falling crime rate flies in face of Harper policies
The “crime severity index,” which captures both the number and seriousness of criminal offences, has dropped 28 per cent in the past decade — a wholly welcome development that governments and police forces should celebrate. Instead, the Harper government has doubled down on its campaign against Canada’s phantom crime wave, passing a raft of high profile anti-crime bills and spending billions more on enforcement in a time of financial restraint in almost every other area.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Indigenous poverty: the cost of doing not enough
… poverty impairs educational attainment and health, and in turn, the capacity of poor indigenous children to become economically productive adults… child poverty generates social costs throughout the life cycle… particularly in health-care service… criminal justice, and child welfare… high levels of poverty and related economic inequality lead to social conflict as the aspirations of poor indigenous children who have grown into poor adults are thwarted.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, Health, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Poverty tax credit a worthy idea
Every other country that uses a form of this idea has better standing in the world comparators on health, life quality, education, addictions, and other related issues. It is very simple science and economics… Let’s dig our collective Canada out of debt, into better health and logically, into more productivity by supporting our whole family. And if you think that sounds like socialism, I say to you that is a mask you put on it out of fear of change.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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