Aug. 18, 2013
Toronto Star – Insight – David Hayes
Desperate to stay: Program helps ‘unaccompanied minors’ navigate Canada’s refugee process
The article goes through the immigration process when an unaccompanied minor arrives in Canada. Often the arrival involves flight from physical danger and the use of human smugglers to arrive somewhere safe. Hayes, using the case at hand, walks the reader through the immigration process for this particular 16 year old. http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/08/17/program_helps_unaccompanied_minors_navigate_canadas_refugee_process.html
Edmonton Journal Editorial
Facing facts in the battle with crime
Viewing the implementation of C-10 as putting Canada in lockstep with former US policy, the Journal wonders if the abrupt and substantial change by US Attorney General Eric Holder is grounds for second thoughts here in Canada. “To be really tough on crime, governments need to make the social investments in diversionary programs and alternatives to incarceration that can actually make a difference, rather than emulate failed U.S. corrections policies that even the Americans are now abandoning. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/editorials/Editorial+Facing+facts+battle+with+crime/8784817/story.html
Huffington Post – Blogger Steve Mariotti
How Giving Back Can Heal — The Story of One Entrepreneur: Kevin M. Burke, Founder/Owner of Centuria
Businessman Kevin Burke was once on a school to jail pipeline when a kindly judge offered him the option to join the marines instead of going to jail. Now Kevin is a regular for the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NTE) and owns his own company doing business with governments and giving back. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-mariotti/how-giving-back-can-heal-_b_3764058.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 NTE Website: http://www.nfte.com
The Hartford Courant – Joyce Ellwanger
Prison Transfer Would Be A Cruel Sentence For My Sisters
The federal prison at Danbury was involved in re-alignment and had decided to transfer the women’s population to Aliceville, Alabama, a prison without easy access and considerably distance from the Northwest US. A group of senators were able to reverse the decision but here is a touching letter to her sisters in prison from one who did time in Danbury for trespass on Fort Benning’s School of the Americas. http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/hc-op-danbury-prison-ex-inmate-speaks-out-20130816,0,2458114.story
ValueWalk Daily
American Inequality Continues to Soar
Four global economists study the accumulation of income by the top one percent. Then, they ask why over the last century has the US income level doubled for the top 1% when it has not in other parts of the world. One obvious result is that the income inequality has also grown considerably. It’s in the taxation! http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/08/american-inequality-continues-to-soar
Digital Journal.com (Chicago)
NHS of Chicago will paint the streets in North Lawndale and Englewood neighborhoods to support CPS Safe Passage program
The Neighbourhood Housing Services (NHS) are anticipating the re-opening of schools where closures are obliging the children to pass through rival gang territory to get to the new schools. The Chicago Public Schools have designated safe passage routes and will paint the streets literally to identify the routes.http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1418374#ixzz2cEoy1m31 Related article: All Africa Government Press Release – South Africa: Action Plan Between Western Cape Government and the City of Cape Town to Help Protect Educators in Manenberg http://allafrica.com/stories/201308161498.html
Winnipeg Free Press – James Turner
Voices tell man to attack guards – Case highlights treatment woes
Three separate attacks on guards by a man subject to auditory hallucinations serve to illustrate how the reduction in psychiatric services in Manitoba has created even greater backlog and difficulty in meeting the usual 30 requirement for assessment. Now, with a NCR finding, the requirement is an assessment within 45 days, equally unlikely to be observed. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/voices-tell-man-to-attack-guards-220019781.html
Globe and Mail – Jane Taber
Nova Scotia to independently review treatment of cyberbullying cases by police, courts
The recent furor over why the RCMP did not charge anyone in the rape of teen Rehtaeh Parsons who killed herself after pictures of the rape were circulated on the net has led to the appointment of Murray Segal, a former prosecutor from Ontario. His terms of reference say Mr. Segal is to “determine whether the policies, procedures and guidelines for police regarding investigations of allegations of sexual assault, child pornography, and other offences related to cyber-bullying are adequate and appropriate.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/men-charged-in-rehtaeh-parsons-case-appear-in-court-case-put-over-until-september/article13781717