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Addressing delay in the courts: Flirting with transformative change
The preliminary inquiry historically served the central purpose of weeding out non-viable cases. But it is a resource- and time-intensive procedure. And with the evolution of professional policing, constantly improving investigative standards, talented and spirited defence-bar oversight and pro-active case-vetting by prosecutors, the preliminary inquiry as a screening mechanism has been in a death spiral for years… the costs and delays to maintain it system-wide are no longer broadly justifiable.
Tags: featured, ideology, rights
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Minister delivers much-needed kick in the pants to justice system
… “the aspirations are fine,” particularly the legislation’s big push to reduce the administration-of-justice offences, which account for a quarter of all cases in court… These clog the courts and make criminals out of those on the margins — the poor, the Indigenous, the mentally ill, people of colour… Probably fully 80 per cent of the poor buggers before the courts don’t belong there. Their so-called “crimes” are too minor; their vulnerabilities are too great; they need help, not jail.
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Psychographics: How Cambridge Analytica Peered Inside Your Mind
Cambridge Analytica worked hard to develop dozens of ad variations on different political themes such as immigration, the economy and gun rights, all tailored to different personality profiles… Behavioural analytics and psychographic profiling are here to stay… it industrializes what good salespeople have always done, by adjusting their message and delivery to the personality of their customers.
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The ‘radical paradigm shift’ that’s changing Ontario’s oversight system for health professionals
Appetite for significant reform is growing, even among regulators, who are now looking at a “radical paradigm shift.” … Under the system of self-regulation, professions govern themselves through 26 colleges, which get their legislative authority from the provincial government. They investigate complaints, discipline wrongdoers, set practice standards and administer quality assurance programs to ensure professionals are up to snuff.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Speaking as a White Male …
Under what circumstances should we embrace the idea that collective identity shapes our thinking? Under what circumstances should we resist collective identity and insist on the primacy of individual discretion, and our common humanity? … the drive to bring in formerly marginalized groups has obviously been one of the great achievements of our era… Wider inclusion has vastly improved public debate… And there are other times when collective thinking seems positively corrupting.
Tags: featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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The mounting case for a single public-school system in Ontario
It is unequal: Jewish or Hindu or Muslim schools don’t get government funding. How is that fair…? It is expensive: running two giant school systems side by side… It is increasingly awkward: the values of Catholic authorities are bound to clash with changing views in the world… Most of all, it is backward… It is time to embrace that new reality and wind up the separate school system.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, tax, youth
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An Open Letter To Canadian Women, From Kathleen Wynne
… there are still too few women running for office across Canada, and I want to see more women in city halls and parliaments in every corner of this country. I want to tell you to run.
Not because it will be easy. I have been called many names… I ask you to run because it is necessary. Because we need another slate of brave women willing to tackle stereotypes and the campaign trail in tandem.
Tags: participation, rights
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Time to eliminate publicly funded Catholic schooling in Ontario
Apart from the ongoing inequity of letting a powerful religious group have unequal benefit of the law in one of our most important government services, shaping children’s minds, the time for a change is now more than ever… In 1999, the United Nations Human Rights Committee declared Ontario’s practice of funding Catholic education to the exclusion of other religions discriminatory. The UN’s power is limited to persuasion. Nothing changed.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, youth
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New law to make employers accountable for temp worker injuries
Employers who use temporary employment agencies will no longer be able to evade liability for workplace accidents… as new legislation promises to hold them responsible when temps are injured or killed on the job… they would remove existing incentives for employers to shift risky work onto temp agency workers who often receive little training or protection… The ministry is also undertaking an in-depth investigation into the temp agency sector with results expected to be available in the spring.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Ontario to introduce ‘pay transparency’ legislation
If passed, the “pay transparency” bill would require all publicly advertised job postings to include a salary rate or range, bar employers from asking about past compensation and prohibit reprisal against employees who do discuss or disclose compensation. It would also create a framework that would require large employers to track and report compensation gaps based on gender and other diversity characteristics, and disclose the information to the province.
Tags: economy, featured, rights, standard of living, women
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