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Don’t grandfather machine guns, eliminate them
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Trudeau’s subsequent reference to “grandfathering” rules after a post-ban two-year transition period is alarming… A ban means no guns; it doesn’t mean keep the ones you have. It shouldn’t mean large payouts to gun owners…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, rights, women, youth
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Canada bans military-style firearms, but what about handguns?
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
Trudeau rightly sees that “you don’t need an AR-15 to bring down a deer.” Well, you don’t use a handgun to shoot one either. Nor does a farmer need a handgun to kill pests. But every year handguns are used in hundreds of shooting incidents in communities across the country… Banning a range of military-style firearms is an important first step for Canada. But our biggest gun problem remains handguns and without banning those Trudeau’s Liberals aren’t doing enough to truly limit gun violence and death in this country.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Canada set to ban assault-style weapons, including AR-15 and the gun used in Polytechnique massacre
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
Ottawa is set to ban a number of assault-style firearms and weapons involved in mass shootings in Canada and abroad, including the Ruger Mini-14 that was used during the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, federal officials say… The banning of firearms can be done by a decision of cabinet called an order-in-council and does not require the adoption of new legislation. There is no exact definition of a military-style firearm, which means the government’s decision is based on science as well as political choices.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Tories to inject $2 million in new funding for rape crisis centres — one day after signalling $1 million had been cut
Friday, March 6th, 2020
In an apparent communications snafu from Ford’s Tories, the centres are in fact getting a cash infusion from Queen’s Park… The confusion apparently stems from the fact that the government is planning a new strategy to curb human trafficking expected to be announced Friday… Still, last year’s one-time $1-million funding announcement by the Tories was far less than the $14 million over three years the centres had been promised by the previous Liberal government.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology
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OUSA looks to expand “outdated” Women’s Campus Safety grant
Friday, February 14th, 2020
… the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) is seeking to modernize the 1991 Women’s Campus Safety grant… “It’s about larger programs aimed at changing the culture and programs that are meant to evaluate those programs… expanding initiatives eligible for the grant could lead to evaluating programs like Flip the Script or providing salaries for prevention and response trainers… This is a non-partisan issue to keep students safe…”
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, mental Health, women
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To fight crime, Canada has to fight poverty, inequality and despair
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Liberal politicians want to talk about locking up guns and Conservatives want to talk about locking up people… both approaches are reasonable. But they are narrow in focus. They’re designed to appeal to each party’s base, and as such do not come close to addressing the complex issues behind gun and gang violence… How hard is it for politicians to understand that the most effective policies for reducing youth violence are ones that cut poverty
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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On gangs and guns, politicians are missing the point
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
History has taught us that this is not just a policing issue, or just a gun issue, or just a crime issue. It’s all of these, and a lot more. It’s not something that can be fixed by spending more money on a narrow set of priorities, or by talking tough at a news conference… They need long-term, considered help, not grandiose political posturing
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Why does the Indigenous rate of incarceration only grow?
Friday, January 24th, 2020
Conservative policies stripped sentencing judges and parole boards of discretion, adding mandatory minimums and other limits on their ability to consider specific facts and risks of individual cases. While the Liberals opposed many of these reforms during campaign season, they have done little to address the harmful legacy… we have not learned enough from community-based and Indigenous legal traditions that offer more promising methods of responding to wrongdoing.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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Fear and division really are bad for our health
Monday, January 20th, 2020
If you take fear and division and add a dose of cynicism about experts and government you produce an excellent culture medium for anxiety. Anxiety is bad for our health. A smoker loses on average 8.5 years of life. Anxiety can decrease your life expectancy by 7… When things seem more predictable, we feel more in control and we are less anxious.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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The Ford government should invest in Ontario’s outmoded courts
Saturday, January 4th, 2020
… the failure to modernize court proceedings actually costs taxpayers money by preventing the government from “realizing potential cost savings.” … A fair court system is a pillar of democracy. But right now, Ontario’s auditor general cannot make head nor tails of how it operates. How, then, can Downey expect Ontarians to trust it — or him?
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